Let the games begin

A recent story in the NYTimes hails new “rules”, issued by the Obama administration (7/15/2010), requiring insurance companies to provide certain services without co pay, as some sort of good thing for Americans.  It is not. 

This is the beginning of Obama’s takeover of our healthcare system.  Anybody who thought that universal healthcare would someday suddenly appear and kill our current private system was sadly mistaken.  Instead our current system will endure a slow and painful death all the while the media and Obama will try to sell it to us as an improvement.  The link to the story is attached at the end of this post but before reading it keep a few things in mind. 

First, Obama has no constitutional authority to issue “rules” that private industry must follow.  These rules are entirely unconstitutional, even though congress seemingly gave the administration that power with the Obama care law, the supreme court has ruled in the past that Congress cannot yield its authority.  A recent example would be Bill Clinton’s attempt to obtain the line item veto.  The court ruled that giving the president the power to alter legislation in this manner violated the presentment clause of the U.S. constitution and that congress can not give this power away.  What warped America do we now live in where the president can snap his fingers and make “rules”?

Second, the story claims these services will be provided for free, yet finally reveals that the rules will result in an estimated 1.5% premium increase for all rate payers.  So the whitehouse has basically just shifted the cost to the entire rate paying pool.  This is something Obama seems to be rather good at.   Instead of solving a problem he just shifts the responsibility.  He promised to close Guantanamo bay.  His solution was simply moving the prisoners somewhere else.  He has still failed to accomplish this but what would he have achieved anyway?  His Obama care legislation promised to provide insurance to millions.  All it really did was force the states to pay for it by increasing Medicaid.  His so called solutions are like trying to solve unemployment in California by shipping all of the unemployed to Arizona.   Back to the point.

Third, the only way you can get these new “goodies” is if you change plans.  Plans that were grandfathered in won’t see any change except for the rate hike.  What was that Obama said when promoting healthcare?  Oh yes, he said “if you like your plan you can keep it, no one will make you switch” I guess this is true, he is just going to continue driving your premiums up so you can pay for benefits that are only available to those who switch.  While he’s at it, he will quietly bankrupt the insurance industry by making “rules” that require them to give more services away without reimbursement and restricting the increases in premiums.  Let’s get this straight; force businesses to give stuff away, prevent them from collecting revenue, and when they go bankrupt blame the market.   Apparantly Obama has never had a business or a real job, but neither has the majority of the wizards in his cabinet.  They have all lived the good life by skimming off the top of the private sector while simultaneously condemning its existence.  Back to the point.

Fourth, exactly what demographic is it that will be effected by this rate increase?  Most likely the majority are people making under 250,000 dollars a year.  I guess this is not technically a tax but the effect is the same.  Private citizens keep less of their hard earned dollars as a result of the government.    Hope and change, too bad Obama and his cronies can’t fill their heads with something more substantial than generic slogans.  Who knows how long the insurance companies will hang on. 

Oh, here’s the article.  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/health/policy/15health.html?_r=1  This is sure to be just the begninning.  Keep a skeptical eye out and remember – Protect Freedom First!