Kerry and Reinsurance
John Kerry is still going to save the world. Just like before, when he promised to make Christopher Reeves walk, only if we would kill more babies; he's now promised health care for every single person on the planet, but only if everyone pays a LOT more.
His plan he has called "reinsurance." Here's how it works: if you are healthy and make good choices in life; if you refrain from lifestyle activities that might put you at risk for requiring health care; if you don't smoke or drink; if you exercise and take care of your body -- well, you should pay substantially more money to the government in the form of billions of dollars of increased taxes. Oh, but you might get to pay a little bit less for the insurance you don't need because you're careful and make good choices. If you're irresponsible and make bad health choices requiring lots of medical care; well, you don't have to pay anything extra because it's not your fault. Instead, government will steal money from those who produce and work to pay for any and all medical needs you might have or want. Want a private room while you recover from your liver transplant from drinking a fifth a day for 10 years? No problem, John Kerry's going to pay for it with someone else's money. Yes, this IS Hillarycare, but Kerry's just calling it something else. It will strongly encourage no one to buy any insurance -- because if you don't, government will just buy it for you. And of course, once government gets to determine how much is going to be spent, it will destroy the entire medical industry because when a procedure costs $200 to perform, but the government will only pay $10, how many people do you think will be willing to perform it? Nothing like the total destruction of 1/7 of the country's economy in the name of socialism, is there? John Kerry, a Senator from Massachusetts, is a true danger to freedom and liberty.
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I really wish they would stop with the national health care issue. It just isn't good.
Posted by: Contagion at May 02, 2007 11:10 PM (T4WRc)
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It's all bad -- but that's one of the primary platforms that the Democrats are running on right now. And this one has already been introduced in the Senate and could actually get voted on. I don't know what Bush would do with it.
Posted by: Ogre at May 03, 2007 12:22 AM (kRDOE)
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Fred Thompson wrote an article about socialized medicine and the realities but I can't get to the link right now. I found it sideways from Townhall which doesn't seem to be loading at the moment. He pretty well says it straight like it is. Remember, I lived in Germany for a few years. Socialized medicine isn't all it's cracked up to be when you get a chance to see the realities up close and personal.
Granted, being military, the clinics and hospitals to which we were directed were decent. However, I lived off post and in the community which afforded me a whole different view from the normal peep that Americans overseas would receive.
Granted, being military, the clinics and hospitals to which we were directed were decent. However, I lived off post and in the community which afforded me a whole different view from the normal peep that Americans overseas would receive.
Posted by: Steph at May 03, 2007 11:56 AM (AC9Dc)
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It's incredibly simple economics. When you reduce the cost for something that people want, the demand goes up. When government artifically reduces the costs, that means it will cost government tremendously more. That happens every single time it's tried.
Posted by: Ogre at May 03, 2007 01:42 PM (oifEm)
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