Posted on 01/11/2014 4:37:41 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Anyone else get that sinking feeling that rebellion is the only option left?
That was the whole point of passing ObamaCare....that’s why nobody had to read what was actually in it.
They knew it was just an intermediate step to their ultimate goal, single payer.
Wow. Those two words alone should make anyone turn around and run the other way. Holy cow, what platinum-plated tin-horn crap.
"Risk corridor." You screw with free market forces, you create a corridor right into a drain, like a sink.
As it is, the modern "market" for health insurance began in the first place because government screwed with the free market by disallowing certain pay levels without some penalty, so businesses started offereing health insurance as a non-income perk.
A generation later, it's an entitlement, a responsibility of employers and if not them -- why, the government!
"Risk corridors." I can think of a corridor these nationalized health care statists can shove up their ... bah!!
It will be interesting to see if the blues try to keep this thing going and the private insurers bail out quick enough to stay solvent. Can this be done prior to the group mandates.
There won’t be companies entering the market if there is no money to be made. The feds have screwed it up.
It going to go to single payer anyway. Sounds like BCBS is trying to scam the taxpayers.
Obamacare is working as planned. Pray for America and your children.
BCBS was complicit in allowing the Tojan horse of Obama are to pass congress. Their naive stupidity astounds me
No more bailouts.
Correct.
And not just inheritance, but liens can be placed against real property while you are still living. So, try to sell that house to fund your retirement with a lien against the property. The real fun is about to begin.
It ain’t a perfect re-enactment, but still you are begging the question. If the Blues won’t “repent” then they are going to soon be forced to sing the blues — along with the rest of us who will be looking as fondly back to them as we do to even our liberal American forefathers. Up to Republicans whether to be “hard assed” about it. I recommend not to be that way, given that we have to pull together to fix the situation of a recipe for the impossible that is called Obamacare. But there could be a contingent deal. Work out a return to private enterprise plan, or get starved out from those who will.
Oh, and please check Forbes, IBD, or The Wall Street Journal if you have any doubt that healthcare insurance giants' stocks did indeed soar with the PPACA roll-out.
But this is the Internet, and just like you, I could be anyone. So don't take my word for it -- because I am most certainly not taking yours, which is 100% nonsense.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58320#.UtIbn55dUus
http://www.nhteapartycoalition.org/tea/2013/08/06/insurance-companies-helped-write-obamacare/
A few choice quotes, for your education:
Big insurers were omnipresent during the ObamaCare negotiations. Their most effective negotiator was Karen Ignagni, CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the industry’s leading lobby. Washingtonian magazine called her one of the top three “Top Guns” of all trade association heads, and she proved it with ObamaCare.
In March 2009, Ignagni promised President Obama: “You have our commitment to play, to contribute, and to help pass health care reform this year.” And play she did.
Ignagni and AHIP members participated in hundreds of meetings and spent millions of dollars to shape the final bill. Between January 2007 and August 2012, the political action committees of AHIP and the 11 largest health insurance companies gave $10.2 million to federal politicians, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
As for doctors? Yes many of the rank and file are absolutely against it. But the AMA, which represents about 40% of doctors, was indeed endorsing 0bamacare with a full throated roar.
BRING IT !
It is inevitable that ObamaCommieCare must end badly.
Let it be now so my Grandchildren are spared the cruel effect of ObamaScoialized Health Insurance Tax, or OSHIT!
Sounds like a lot of folks are going to get lessons in the consequences of being clueless, in the school of hard knocks.
As much as we might like to push that whole gaggle of complicit insurers down the stairs, however, unless somehow we can reinvent the healthcare finance world completely independently before the Blues become a fond memory, we are stuck having to redeem that resource. I mean what else would you really do, once YOU return to reality?
...I mean, there is an advantage to being known as the guys who saved their skin. They will probably eat out of your hand for a good long time.
Because for years after the Eighteenth Amendment, no one could buy a drink anywhere.
Long before the insurers are in any danger of going under, they will be able to exert the kind of pressure for repeal that they exerted for passage IN SPADES.
What they expect is that no one is going to call their bluff. Sorry, I'm not folding without calling them. Given what the government has done with healthcare so far, there is going to be absolutely ZERO pressure to pass a single payer plan. Whatever happens to existing insurers, there is never going to be any pressure to do that. The pressure for single payer will become enormous if we curl up like a bunch of puss!es and give them what they want, while Rat politicians scream for years about how taxpayers and "the Republican Plan" are holding up Big Healthcare.
No thanks. What reality do you live in?
In a decade or so they’ll run out of property to seize. Then what? Idiots!
If this one page bill doesn't work, I highly doubt one drafted by the current Congress will.
Yep. We either pay for the bailout or we pay for "free" insurance for everyone. Part of obama's removal of the middle class.
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