I have people in my family who just don’t get it. Whenever I try to explain the problem with universal, government-run healthcare, they flat state “I don’t want to discuss politics.” They won’t listen to anything I say. One of my sisters has a son with severe emotional/behavior problems caused by brain injury at birth. She’s never been able to get more help than her insurance and Medicaid have covered. She thinks things will improve with universal health care. She doesn’t believe me when I tell her that treatment for her son will get worse because some government bureaucrat will disallow benefits. She will not let me talk about it. Of course, she also believes Cap and Trade will give us cleaner air—and when I tried to tell her what the cost would be, she didn’t want “to talk about politics.” She believes what the Messiah says.
From Hotair
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Surprise! You can, as Obama promised, keep your current coverage — as long as it remains available. However, if your employer stops offering health-care benefits, or if you buy it privately and your insurer cancels your plan, you can’t just pick up another private plan. Enrollments will be closed as of the first day the bill becomes law.
That will have the effect of forcing millions of people into the public plan whether they want it or not. Even worse, if insurers get barred from attracting new customers — which this clause outlaws — then they will eventually see their rolls drained, thanks to the natural flow of the market as employers drop plans and skip the expense of offering medical insurance. It won’t take long at all for insurers to exit the market and leave the field for just the public plan, which will automatically get the customers of each individual insurer as they close up shop.
Does this bill outlaw private insurance? Literally, no, but in practical terms, it makes it an endangered species and creates an American single-payer system by default.
It has to pass first, though, and Blue Dog Democrats say they’ve seen enough:
Tell her you don't want to talk about "politics", either, but about her son's well being, or the cost of taking care of him and the rest of her family, which will be negatively affected by the 'cap and tax' legislation.
Tell her that the only thing that it will do is triple the price of energy for the exact same amount of pollutants in that air.
Nothing in it gives anyone anywhere "cleaner air."