Posted on 09/01/2016 7:41:35 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Right on Mr. Daniels!!!!
Reminds me of Atlas Shrugged. They pass these laws to make everyone a criminal. You cannot control a law abiding citizen so you make laws that no one will obey and then guilt them into obedience.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.”After the crisis that Obama created, the government can then swoop in with its iron hand to "resolve" the social chaos.
Doctors, nurses, and med techs chained to their desks with a paltry living wage, bureaucratic death panels, years long waits for treatment, "natural" death rates reaching sky high and the surplus population culled.
obama wanted a Marxist health collective, but all he did was make healthcare more expensive for everyone.
Another obama triumph.
Right on Charlie!
Next time anybody complains about the government - its size, its failures, etc, - take a look in the mirror to see who is responsible for electing and reelecting the same people over and over again to screw us.
Primary opponents failed to oust Paul Ryan, John McCain and a host of other miserable incompetents. So we are saddled with more and more of the same crappy government. Is there a masochistic gene in all of us that makes us act this way?
The problem with imploding is that pesky neutron star left over, sucking in money. Ocare is a legislative improvised roadside bomb, and was designed that way.
Until Democrats, admit the shoved a failed law down the American Public’s throat, no Republican should try to fix anything. The moment that Dem's apologize to the American public then there can be bipartisan attempts to find something better, but until then.....let the Dem's keep saying it is working.
It'll be a cold day in Hell.
It'll be a cold day in Hell.....”
Great, then let the Dem's hang and slowly twist in the win with the full consequences of their program.
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The problem is this is all being treated as a problem with how you pay for healthcare rather than addressing the root problem, which is how to bring down the cost of healthcare to the point where the average person can pay for the bulk of their own healthcare out of pocket, just as they do for almost everything else in life. For those rare but very costly situations you have insurance, whose function is to protect against unexpected but otherwise financially damaging or ruinous events.
You carry automobile insurance to cover the risks associated with things like theft and accidents. You do not have automobile insurance to cover the normal costs of owning a vehicle, like gas and routine maintenance. The same is true for every other area of life for which you buy insurance--except healthcare. That is the root problem and until this is addressed there is no possible "cure" for the problem of ever-escalating healthcare costs.
Too bad Mr. Daniels isn’t running for president.
I read that about 75% of healthcare costs go to treating chronic conditions. Chronic conditions aren't really a problem on a national scale until people hit their mid 40s. Then it is all downhill. It is really a question of who pays for healthcare as a person ages.
I've no doubt this is true, but there are several problems here. First, the current system is optimized to get as many people as possible into "chronic" conditions that require daily (insurance-covered) prescription medications. That's the cash cow that's consuming the system, and currently there are no incentives to try to reign in those costs.
Secondly, the notion that it's "all downhill" after you hit 40 is a complete myth. There's no reason that most people can't remain physically fit and healthy (without drugs) for most of their adult lives. We have an epidemic of Type-II diabetes, for example, mainly do to atrocious eating and lifestyle choices that are actively encouraged by both the tellingly-named "Grocery Manufacturers Association" and the Pharmaceutical industry, who supply expensive (read, profitable) treatments for these chronic conditions.
What's needed is a recognition that the patient bears primary responsibility for his or her own health, and that starts with things like not having a diet consisting of junk food, getting off one's butt to move, not smoking, etc. Not something that one can wave a wand to make happen, but you have to start by stopping incentivizing poor lifestyle choices and couple that with real education and getting people to know and understand that they can (often dramatically) improve their quality of life with relatively minor behavioral changes.
Price transparency and real competition in medicine is the other key reform needed. Combining these two is the only way to slay the healthcare cost dragon.
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