Posted on 11/24/2014 6:55:09 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
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I remember when Reagan was running my liberal sisters said the main problem was he had simple solutions for complex problems. Duh! I sure think giving folks money to buy private insurance makes more sense than a huge government program.
Insurance is not healthcare.
How about we get rid of 20 million illegals first. Maybe 20 million of their anchor babies will go with them. Does America really need 320 million inhabitants?
“They say the world has become too complex for simple answers... they are wrong”
-Ronald Reagan
NO
No, we don’t
Simple rules for a stable, healthy society:
If you pay more in government tax than you receive in government benefits, you get to vote.
This is about controlling a large chunk of the economy.
This is Cloward-Piven to the max. One step on the road to total destruction of the economy and the installation of the Marxist utopia!
With all of the $billions that have been spent on Obamacare related, only a small number of those pre-Obamacare uninsured do have insurance now.
The Dems tried to sell Obamacare as aimed to insure the uninsured. So far, it has fallen far short.
Little known fact is that Federal and state governments have been doing this for years under Medicare and Medicaid. Since the government requires hospitals to care for emergent patients without regard to ability to pay, there are provisions in the laws that pays hospitals who have a disportionate share of self pay patients. Known as DISH. It does not cover all losses but it helps many smaller hospitals stay afloat. DISH is to be gradually phased out under the ACA as the uninsured is supposed to decline, creating fewer losses for hospitals.
it was designed to fail while messing up the healthcare system so badly that the sheeple will clamor for “single payer”
that was the plan
Why not just make all medical expenses and health insurance a tax write-off?
There are advantages and disadvantages of such a commonsense plan is as follows:
The typical welfare dollar has 72 cents of administrative load. Meaning, 28 cents gets through to the recipient.
But such a scheme bypasses the insurance lobby.
I’m not prepared to issue much of a comprehensive thesis on the dynamics, but IMO the Dems have Grubered out that they will be able to divert tremendously more money out of the economy AND preserve their voter base AND preserve their ins lobby contribution by keeping in place the already-existing insurance edifice.
“Instead of paying the insurance companies off for their losses with taxpayer money, wouldn’t it have been cheaper.....”
Yeah, most likely. But the government has not the slightest interest in what might be “cheaper”. It’s actually exactly contrary to what they want. The more expensive government programs are, the more control over the private economy they obtain.
Because it wouldn't funnel crony $$ to RAT supporters...not to mention the 'loss of power' and 'reduction in government'.../s
They would just spend the $200 bucks and still show up at the ER anyway.
Raise the threshold for Medicaid from 133% of the poverty line to 150% or 167%. Open up all commercial healthcare plans to competition across state lines. Provide catastrophic coverage at government cost to anyone who slips through those cracks.
To reduce costs, begin deportation of any illegals caught.
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