Quote of the Day – 2009/10/5
By John Goodman Filed under Uncategorized on October 5, 2009 with 10 comments
There’s a public option; there’s a public option, and there’s a public option. And we’re gonna look at each of them.
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That is a truly great quote.
And, the American people deserve to get the best public option that can be passed. Illusionists, like John Goodman, don’t want working people to live comfortably and with dignity. Reject these people’s principles and join intelligent humans to get our representatives in Congress to pass a strong health care reform bill with a public option that will create competition with the insurance companies. We deserve to save our money and to have quality health care at the same time.
Thaddeus, you and Harry Reid live in the same fantasy world.
It isn’t as good as Harry Reid’s quote, but I like Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-NE) logic about the public option:
“Unless it’s something that I can support, I’m not going to support it.”
I like the idea of a trigger mechanism, so long as the mechanism is this: If, after a few years of market-based reforms there is still no competitive market, then this should trigger Congress to consider possible remedies which might include a public option.
Analysis has shown that the only way a public option would attract a large number of enrollees is if it can use the power of government to pay below-market provider reimbursements while avoiding the responsibilities private insurers must comply with.
I also like this quote from last June:
“I kind of wake up at night thinking, ‘My gosh, we could wind up with a more convoluted system than we have now.’ We could just be multiplying the points in our system that create waste and abuse and cost us so much money.”
— Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)
They are trying to paint this heavy-handed government action to force people to buy a private product as a “practical” choice. This leftist counteroffensive to ROB us of our rights as a free born citizen to make our own choices!
These people are being rational with their money and the left wants to FORCE THEIR OPINION ON THEM! They are going to tell us to buy their government Health Insurance or go to jail!
Here are the real facts about the so-called “Free rider” talking point!
(1) Uncompensated care you cite is 1% of total annual HC costs! This problem is SOOO SMALL in the trillions being spent its laughable! So you want to turn our HC system over to the FED GOVT for 1% of the cost and less then 3% of the population who doesn’t choose to buy HC insurance!
Look at your Health Insurance Bill, figure out what 1% is – not much! And far, far, far less then how much the FED GOVT will drive up premium costs with bs regulation, fees and taxes!
The 1% is a small cost to pay to keep my liberty, right to choose to purchase health insurance, and to KEEP THE FEDS out!
(2) You presuppose ALL uninsured people don’t PAY the BILL for their medical care! Again, FALSE! Most people do try to pay, up to 75%. Some people actually save and pay out of their saving or pocket. You fall for the typical arrogant thinking – that your neighbor IS not doing the right thing when in fact most are. You would pay for your HC. Again, we want to take away rights based on false information and a small percentage of the population.
Here is how Health Policy expert Michael Cannon at the CATO Institute puts it:
“The left’s most powerful argument in favor of an Individual Mandate – that the Uninsured sometimes end up in the ER, and unable to pay their bills – isn’t powerful enough. The appropriate response to this problem is not to take away the freedom of the non-free riders. The appropriate response is to leave the non-free riders alone, to place the cost of the “uncompensated” care on the would-be free riders, and to write off any remaining uncompensated care as the price of living in a free and decent society.”
Here is an article that debunks these leftist lies about the Uninsured!
http://townhall.com/columnists/JacobSullum/2009/09/23/does_cost_of_uncompensated_care_justify_forcing_people_to_buy_insurance
Contrary to popular opinion in the media, the Individual Mandate, not the so-called public option is the key to stopping Obamcare in its tracks. Stop the Individual Mandate and the whole bill will unravel for lack of funding and mandatory participation in the scheme!
This is a very dangerous period because Nationalization will still occur even without an overt government run insurance plan like this “public option” provision everyone keeps fixating on – Wyden/Bennett and the Bacus bill are prime examples of this.
Individual Mandates to buy private insurance sound like a “free market” solution and “individual responsibility” but in this context they are not – they are simply a front for a government run system. Many conservatives can be easily fooled by this faux “private” front (Mitt Romney was) .
Here are the core elements what will be contained in the “health care reform compromise” after the so-called “public option” is in all likelihood dropped:
(a) Federal Regulation aka HEALTH CZAR/DEATH PANELS
(b) Employer/Individual Mandates aka NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE
(c) Government Subsidies aka MIDDLE CLASS MEDICAL WELFARE
With the Federal Government setting the rules, forcing everyone to participate, and is paying the bills for most of the middle class through subsidies how is this anything other than Nationalization?
The eexpritse shines through. Thanks for taking the time to answer.
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