Central planners be damned! America should remain a free country and health care should remain as a free enterprise market-driven system. We already have the best health care system in the entire world!
The commands of the prophet may be performed alike, by fraud, or by force. JQA
That’s the Obama Democrats - putting the “total” into totalitarianism!
Everyone to the rice fields!
The "rich" will still get access to the best doctors, while the poor will have to wait in line at their local hospital.
Unless Obama plans on busing the "doctors of the rich" into the inner city, and busing the "affirmative action" doctors to the suburbs, nothing will change regarding the quality of care that the rich receive.
-PJ
Obama was truthful on this. He said in very beginning that he favored a univeral, single payer system. He also said this Obamacare was only the first step to reach his goal.
In five years, this the only thing on which he spoke the truth.
The current critique from the Left of America's health care system is that "only" the wealthy get the highest quality care, which is demonstrably untrue but that never stopped a Leftist from shouting it anyway. The system they're proposing to address this "economic injustice" will cost everyone more, lower the quality of care overall, place a great deal of power in the hands of those who ration it, and make the very highest quality of care available only to privileged classes, which tend to be - well, what do you know? - the wealthy. And loyal party members.
It's socialism when you can opt out, Communism when it's mandatory. And this commentator wants it to be mandatory.
They just do not want to give the free market a chance. I remember back in the 80s car insurance was insane. One accident and you could be paying $5000 a year which was a massive amount of money back then. Now because of the free market they give you freakin’ discounts if you have an accident! “Oh we are raising your rates” oh well then I’ll go Geico or Progressive or this or that. Same with phones, I remember getting massive bills for landlines now it’s $40 a month unlimited calls. But health insurance? Noooo, lets keep that under the thumb of the government, lets keep allowing OGYNs to pay $300k a year in litigation insurance because some crackhead ho gave birth to a kid with flippers and some Obama voting jury awarded her $40million bucks.
Obamacare will never collapse of its own weight, and must be specifically abolished from the books to rid ourselves of it. Anything less will result in an intergenerational usurpation of governmental power that will last generations, and may never be fully rectified, like many failed policies before it. Furthermore, the government is used to spending money that doesn’t exist, so we’d be deluding ourselves to think that “budgetary problems” will prevent the current crop of stalinists from instituting their wet dream.
“forced by the government”
This is the key to everything the left promotes ‘for the public good’. The only thing people are willing to embrace without the use of force is freedom, because the very definition of freedom is the absence of force or compulsion. This is another of those simple, black and white truths that exasperates the left, to whom everything is convoluted and complex, and ultimately subjective.
Well, that’s what the Soviets said to.
Not to fear, there will be subsidies for many people. Oh, you still will have to write a check for the full monthly insurance premium. But the government will catch you next time you file a tax return with a tax credit. So it’s dog food 11 months of the year.
The millennials will so not go for this. I guess they could just reduce deductions from their checks which could cause penalties and severely reduce tax revenue.
Bttt
Just another attempt for the ‘haves’ to pay for the ‘have not’s.
Even if everyone is in it, it will still fail. Just take a bit longer.
Just the other day the State of Ohio officially announced that health premiums under OsamaObamaCare will rise by 41%.I wonder how Comrade Bob sees that announcement fitting onto the "catastrophically" scale.Not that *he* has to worry about that thanks to the fact that he's surely been exempted from that train wreck as a member of the rich,powerful and "connected".
For Obamacare to Work, Everyone Must Be Insane
I brief and fleeting moment of clarity from the NYT and Robert H Frank.
Frank is just another high minded prog who is a vested member of the ethereal country club of We-Know-Better. He is another example that defies the notion that a conservative is a liberal who has been just mugged. Communism failed, but let's try it again, but this time the Frank idiot will pontificate new idiocy.
I'm 61 years old, no spouse, no dependents, no pets, no houseplants, minimal assets.
They can come and get me. 3 hots and a cot would be an improvement in my lifestyle.
Which is why everyone should be out.
I will have to go on Obamacare because of having to take disability from a genetic disease that will eventually take my life. It scares the *%#| out of me to turn my DNA and 30 years of medical records over to the government. Do I see a death panel in my future? Absolutely.