Health Care Reform? Hardly

In light of the recent passage of HealthCare “Reform” I felt the urge to comment.  Consider this piece a stream of consciousness on the matter and feel free to let me know what you think.   The notion that the involvement of  private insurance companies in this scheme absolves US Citizens of the worry that government is hijacking healthcare is ridiculous.  Simply because private insurers will bear the burden of being forced to insure people does not mean the government has not taken over the industry..

This bill will increase all insurance rate payers premiums.. This bill effectively enables people to buy insurance after calamity strikes. This is like requiring auto insurance companies to pay for your accident when you signed up for insurance after the accident took place… This will bankrupt the insurance industry, which, I believe is by design.. 

Its laughable that so so much attention is being paid to the GOP’s supposed aversion to bipartisanship.. yet the bipartisanship so many seek exists – in opposition to this bill.  The republicans have nothing to do with this debate.. Obama had a majority in the house and a supermajority in the Senate and could not get the bill passed.. The bipartisan effort people are looking for was the effort to block this legislation.

Government created the health insurance price spiral we are experiencing with the introduction of managed care in the 60′s. The left’s beloved Ted Kennedy created the now demonized HMO.  Only in government can a problem created by the government be solved with more of the government. Get Government OUT of HealthCare.. put the consumer back into the equation and prices will come down. By removing the consumer, through its manipulations, the government has altered the market forces in play.  Currently, the government plans to place 37 million additional consumers into the position where, from their prospective, healthcare is free.  With basic supply and demand as our guide our only conclusion can be an increase in the quantity of medical care demanded.  At the same the time the government is now deciding the ”value” of those services by artificially trying to limit the price paid for those services.  Again, we can expect a decrease in the quantity of care supplied.  The end result of all of this is Healthcare rationing, eventual collapse of our system,  and a proclaimation by the government in the near future that “the free market failed and we must now naitionalize.”   A very sick joke played upon the American people.  This seems to be government’s M.O.; create a problem, demonize the problem, claim they are the answer.  Today, the left demonizes the employer based system yet this is the system they created.

Health Savings Accounts controlled by the individual, regardless of where they are employed, Tort reform, and increased competition are all much better directions than this ridiculous piece of legislation… quit forcing Hospitals to care for illegals without recourse for the debt, quit preventing consumers (aka the market) from limiting prices and direct costs will decrease.. IT is government’s manipulations to the market which have caused the distortions that lead the left to inexplicably call for more government.

Many have claimed the path we were on was unsustainable.  What a hilarious statement to make in support of this bill.  I ask, what do these people call this bill? Social Security and Medicare are both insolvent, yet we are supposed to believe creating another monster bureaucracy will be sustainable? We are supposed to believe our current system is unsustainable, but a bill that requires collecting taxes over ten years, only paying benefits for six years, and hijacking the interest from student loans in order to have CBO score it as budget neutral over a ten year period is sustainable? Hilarious.  The idea that the CBO says it, so it must be so, is also flawed.  The CBO scores what it gets.  In this case, its a piece of legislation full of accounting gimmicks.

For all those who would demonize private insurance, guess which insurance company led the nation in rejected claims? Was it Blue Shield, Aetna, or Kaiser? NO, it was Medicare.. Why? Because nothing is free.  When people say they will get free healthcare they are mistaken.  It is not free, it has to be paid for.  Another fallacy is the repeated demonizing of the insurance companies profits.  I guess if a 3% profit margin is raking it in, this country is in worse shape than I thought.  When did profit become a bad thing anyway?  This country should celebrate profit.  Its profit and people’s desire of it that brought this country to where it is today.  Capitalism is built on profit and this country was built on capitalism.  Why is it whenever the left has  a new cause célèbre it involves demonizing all the profit gleaned in related industries?  

Healthcare is a service, performed by people who acquired skills to perform it. No one has a RIGHT to Healthcare.. Your rights end where they infringe on others.. YOU have no more right to demand A doctor to fix you than you do to demand a mechanic fix your car… If you disagree, try forcing a doctor to provide his SERVICE.. if he refuses what will you do? Throw him in jail? You cannot force another to work for you.. That is not democracy, it is Slavery..