SHOCK UNCOVERED: Obama IN HIS OWN WORDS saying His Health Care Plan will ELIMINATE private insurance – VIDEO
August 4, 2009
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I posted this video (or a similar one) on my blog along with another where he claims everyone can keep their health coverage plan if they like it, etc.
It’s just unbelievable how he actually gets away with this stuff and people really buy into it.
I’ve been getting blasted by some very liberal folks lately; I read their comments and emails with their relentless, yet baseless defense of Obama, in amazement. He is an obvious fraud and is systematically destroying America.
Hi Steve. These liberal folks who blather on mindlessly and launch baseless attacks are suffering from a form Dementia called “Irreversible Post Adolescent Idol Love Syndrome” (IPAILS). In this case they have a new and most virulent form of the disease, ObamaLove. Sort of a Jim Jones upgrade, if you will. The disease is singled out by Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Rahm’s brother, as a ‘disqualifier’ for health care: “… Medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those who are irreversibly prevented from becoming participating citizens…. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.”
Couldn’t agree more.
I am new to posting on blogs, but would appreciate your response to ideas I have that I think would help reform healthcare in a positive way. Please let me know which thoughts, ideas, provocative statements have the most traction with you:
COST AND PRICE ARE CONFUSED
Much of the discussion regarding healthcare reform centers around cost. We hear that healthcare costs too much, healthcare costs are going up too much, the cost of healthcare insurance is going up too much. I think it is relevant to point out that NO ONE knows what healthcare costs. What we do know is that the price for healthcare and healthcare insurance keeps going up. Price is not the same as cost. I don’t think patients, physicians, hospitals, or government officials know what healthcare costs. They only know the price they pay. It is difficult to talk sensibly about lowering costs when no one really knows what costs are. Furthermore, no one is talking about lowering prices, regulating prices, or passing legislation to limit future price increases.
SINGLE PAYER = COST SHIFTING ONLY
A single payer system simply makes someone else pay for healthcare either through higher taxes now or increasing our national debt. Single payer healthcare is not free healthcare. Someone pays for it somehow.
COVERING THE UNINSURED INCREASES HEALTHCARE SPENDING AS A PERCENT OF GDP
Without controls on current and future prices of healthcare, extending coverage to uninsured Americans guarantees spending a larger portion of GDP on healthcare. Shouldn’t we think about reining in prices before attempting to extend coverage to all.
SINGLE PAYER = MONOPOLY
A single payer system is attractive to people who are angry at the prices they pay for healthcare and healthcare insurance. There is great, and I feel misguided, hope that a single payer system will result in lower overall administrative costs and therefore lower national spending on healthcare. What happens if these hopes don’t materialize? A single payer system is in effect a government monopoly. While that sounds attractive to those angry at the current status quo, we know that monopoly power can easily be abused. Would the Federal Trade Commission rule on the Single Payer System to determine if it constitutes a monopoly?
GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS HAVE A POOR RECORD OF SUCCESS
Medicare is running out of money. Social Security is running out of money. State Medicaid programs are running out of money. These government programs are already stretching the ability of our government to function. If the Federal government can’t manage these programs, how will they manage the single payer system. Medicare is not program to which we all should aspire as more and more physicians refuse to accept it and many patients find it doesn’t adequately cover their needs.
TOO MANY PEOPLE ON MEDICARE, NOT TOO FEW
A provocative thought, but considering that Medicare is running out of money and congress seeks reductions in Medicare payments nearly every year, perhaps the problem is that too many Americans look to the government to cover their healthcare costs. Maybe we should work toward getting more and more people off the government dole.
OK. So what to do. I have many ideas, but my best idea centers around this observation:
BEST IDEA FOR HEALTHCARE REFORM
Nearly every week I get a 3×5 card from an Auto Insurance company hoping to lure me away from my current insurer. I comparison shop and pick the best option, buying directly from the Auto Insurance Company. I also purchase my Homeowner’s Insurance directly from the insurance company.
Although I can purchase Health Insurance directly from an insurance company, the premium for an individual policy is priced so high that most look elsewhere or go without. Most Americans get their health insurance through an employer who partially or completely subsidizes the price, passing the ‘lower price’ on to the employee. Large employers, that represent lucrative accounts to insurance firms, are able to negotiate better prices than individuals. They get the attention from insurance firms because they have large amounts of money to throw around.
Imagine an America, instead, where health insurance was permanently and irrevocably unbundled from employment. Employers were freed from the burden of trying to provide increasingly expensive insurance to employees and could get back to running their businesses. Citizens could purchase health insurance directly from health insurance firms, just as they do with auto, and homeowner’s insurance. Health insurance firms would be prohibited from selling to corporations: no more big accounts. The only source of revenue for health insurance firms would be individuals. Health insurance firms would have to compete with each other for premiums from individuals or they would have no revenue at all. Wouldn’t they have to compete on price? Wouldn’t they be sending you a 3×5 card every week? Think about it. You would own your health insurance whether you worked or not. You could change jobs without regard to a change in health benefits. Take a sabbatical — still have insurance. When you turn 65 you might just keep your plan and not need Medicare. Medicare could be relegated to cover the truly impoverished, not just anyone who hits the 65 milestone.