The looting of America begins.
The end has begun.
If the public option is included in a bill signed by Obama, that will be the first step towards a complete government takeover of our health care system. If that takeover happens, you’ll see the following results caused by basic economics and Washington politics:
1) If health care becomes free or almost free for everyone because of tax-payer funded government subsidies, then demand for health care services will increase greatly. More people will show up at doctors’ offices with a minor backache or a slight sore throat or just because they’re lonely and they need to get out of the house and talk to someone today. The health care system will quickly become overloaded with people seeking nearly-free health care, and the cost of the government-run health care system will explode to a cost way above all forecasts by the White House and the CBO. (It’s called a demand curve in economics. Do you remember that from Econ 1, Ms. Pelosi?)
2) As the costs explode way beyond all forecasts, just as the cost of medicare has done, congress will be forced to control those costs in some way, and the path of least resistance politically is to attack the health care professionals and owners of facilities for “greed and excessive compensation.” Congress would then cut reimbursements for doctors’ fees and facilities costs, instead of requiring patients to pay more for each visit to Gubmint-run health offices. This would result in lower incomes for doctors and nurses, which cuts the financial incentive for staying in the medical profession and would push many doctors and nurses into early retirement or cause them to quit the medical profession forever. Why be a doctor if your income is limited to $100K for a GP and $200K for a specialist if you can go get an MBA and become a hedge fund manager and make $5 million per year? Why put up with lawyers suing you for malpractice just to make $200K? It might make more sense to join the other side and become a lawyer who makes $2 million a year suing corporations for product liability or patent violations. The end result would be that some of the most talented physicians would quit the profession and the brightest college students would be much less likely to choose medicine as a career and instead would go into business and law and become corporate entrepreneurs. The end result of greater demand for medical services and lower pay for doctors would be a drain of people and talent out of the medical profession, shortages of doctors, somewhat less competent physicians, rationing of health care, long wait times for surgeries and specialty procedures, and ultimately many thousands of unnecessary deaths among the American people and much unnecessary suffering.
So in the end, this is killer legislation that would kill thousands of people, all because Pelosi and other socialists are perturbed by the “immoral profits” made by health insurance companies. She actually did use the term “immoral profits” made by health insurance companies. (Does Pelosi think all corporate profits are immoral? I think that’s likely, which puts her right in there with Lenin politically.)
This is basic economics, and this exact scenario has already happened in Britain and Canada. You just don’t hear much about the end results because these results are covered up by the left-leaning mainstream news media (just as they’ve covered up most of the ongoing horror show in Cuba for fifty years.) We need to hold the line here and stop this public option to save our health care system and save thousands of lives at the same time.
Shelia Jackson Lee just up.. revolting b*tch. Lunatic.
Any one keeping track of how many time when a Republic speaks and people clap, the speaker scolds the audience and when they clap for a democrat he DOES NOT scold the audience?
Most of the speaks or a joke, it is not about letting people die from lake of insurance (as the democrats are trying to say) it is about a really BAD BILL. If it was just about the uninsured the bill would be 5 maybe 10 pages...
My Dem rep’s e-mail is down—surprise surprise—so I had to call the miserable sob’s office.
The nice lady took my message for John Spratt to 86 the Obamacare treason,even though I told her I have been voting against her boss since the early 1980s.
Are they voting tonight?
I still have some goodwill toward BlinkoTV; it provided me with Fox News until it got that cease & desist letter...
I'm glad this is finally in the sidebar, I just couldn't imagine there wasn't a live thread about this... although I'm having severe difficulty actually WATCHING the proceedings on CSPAN.
In case anyone hasn’t been paying attention, the Democrats have notified us that the uninsured has jump by 8 million within the last 4 hours to 47 million uninsured Americans. No distinction made about citizenship.
Joe Wilson on now referencing NFIB opinions.
LETS NATIONALIZE ALL LAWYERS AND LEGAL SERVICES!! ALL u>S. Citizens get All Their Legal Needs provided Thru The GOVERNMENT and ALL LAWYERS are PAID BY THE FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT SCHEDULES and REVIEW BOARDS with ALL LAWYER INCOMES CAPPED AT AN ABSOLUTE CEILING of $199,000 per year!!
Sounds just as Fair as what these Scumbags are trying to do to OUR GREAT MEDICAL DOCTORS and HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS!!!!
McClintock, California’s Governor that should have been, enumerates details of the bill’s iron fist.
If this passes stock market CRASH on monday.
If this fails stock market SURGE on monday.
All the anecdotes the Democrats put forth involving the suffering of children is overshadowed by their unwillingness to consider the welfare of children yet born.
Boehner is doing a good job calling this fact on the floor.
Did Diana DeGette just say that getting an abortion is the same as getting cancer treatment?