Posted on 04/29/2013 10:54:42 AM PDT by jazusamo
Someone called politics "the art of the possible." But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the impossible.
Those people morbid enough to keep track of politicians' promises may remember how Barack Obama said that ObamaCare would lower medical costs — and lots of people bought it.
But if you stop and think, however old-fashioned that may seem these days, do you seriously believe that millions more people can be given medical care and vast new bureaucracies created to administer payment for it, with no additional costs?
Just as there is no free lunch, there is no free red tape. Bureaucrats have to eat, just like everyone else, and they need a place to live and some other amenities. How do you suppose the price of medical care can go down when the costs of new government bureaucracies are added to the costs of the medical treatment itself?
By the way, where are the extra doctors going to come from, to treat the millions of additional patients? Training more people to become doctors is not free. Politicians may ignore costs but ignoring those costs will not make them go away.
With bureaucratically controlled medical care, you are going to need more doctors, just to treat a given number of patients, because time that is spent filling out government forms is time that is not spent treating patients. And doctors have the same 24 hours in the day as everybody else.
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” How do you suppose the price of medical care can go down when the costs of new government bureaucracies are added to the costs of the medical treatment itself? “
The costs to administer this fraud is more than most people can even comprehend.
Calling all FReepers! Send this column to your Congress Critters! NOW!
What makes you think the congress critters are unaware of what Obamacare really means? Unless they're utterly devoid of a brain (e.g. Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi), they know. The purpose of Obamacare was never about providing medical care (it was always a lie that there are people who get no care); it's about controlling our lives.
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