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RINO-Care is Crony-Baloney
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3533863/posts
Yes, simply repealing would be the best long term solution to healthcare, but you are more likely to catch a unicorn. Not happenning ...
But when you can’t destroy a great evil outright you temporize it [Machiavelli]. I’ve worked on several wedge issues already as have others.
We can tear it down brick by brick. For example — grossly self-inflicted injuries — worst of the worst of the worst. Who should pay for some 500 pound slob to be treated and awarded disability because he’s too fat to walk?
How about kicking that fat pig out of the clinic and onto the curb until private charities put a muzzle on his mouth, feed him health food through a straw, and give him a place to sleep and fart?
When you ask similar tough questions, wings of mercy start to get plucked.
But that’s going to be a long fat man slog [or waddle] just like the abortion issue.
... NOW ...
What can we achieve this year legislatively?
If we could simply increase healthcare competition this year, that would be YUGE in itself, something all reasonable conservatives could get behind.
Like an old fart once said:
“Follow the money, sonny.”
Stamp out the cronyism — cut off their gravy train — and you drain the swamp.
And if this corrupt crony network is rewarded for its evil — they grow like a cancer:
1. More money means more power for more corruption.
2. Each year of success means they become more experienced.
3. And they keep getting better networked each year.
4. The blackmailing element also grows — more goods on more key politicians.
Please note: this chance to cash in on cheap monopolies is once-in-a-lifetime. They will grow by leaps and bounds if Ryan-Care is passed.
Interstate competition or bust!
“Interstate competition or bust!”
What is keeping out interstate competitions? Where is the law that says that companies cannot sell insurance policies in any state they want?
This interstate competition canard is total crap. The reason the market is so fragmented is because of “states rights”.
You see each state has mandates on what insurance companies must cover, each has insurance commissions breathing down insurance companies neck. So the companies go where it makes the most sense to them.
A policy sold in Arizona, would probably not be legal in California.
So do we conservatives want to reduce state rights and let the federal government tell each state what it can allow to be sold?
Under the current law "insurance companies" (a misnomer) have been dropping like flies. There are areas of the country with no insurance operators at all.
How do you inject competition into that scenario?
Or are you talking about provider competition?
If we could simply increase healthcare competition this year, that would be YUGE in itself, something all reasonable conservatives could get behind.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Exactly. lift the state line restrictions, end insurance company monopolies.
If they do just that in addition to their present bill, it will put the key in the repeal door for phase 2 and 3.
Without that key? We are royally Fuc*ed.