Posted on 01/20/2013 11:42:42 AM PST by Nachum
Democrats understand that when they are losing a political fight, their best move is to change the political lexicon. When progressivism fails, they become liberals; when liberalism fails, they become progressives. Now they’re using that rhetorical trickery to try to save the wildly unpopular centerpiece of President Obama’s first term: Obamacare.
Obamacare sets up what were originally termed state health care “exchanges.” These “exchanges” were supposedly set up to pool risk between health care insurance companies. Of course, if the market saw a benefit in such pooling, it would have done so already. In fact, many insurance companies already pool risks to broaden their enrollment.
But pooling risk isn’t the Obama administration’s real agenda. Actually, the exchanges are meant to pay insurance companies to implement Obamacare. In order to qualify for the exchanges, insurance companies can only charge certain prices and must cover certain services. But that means that the government – i.e. taxpayers – must subsidize the exchanges to make them work. If states refuse to set up the Obamacare exchanges, the federal government is supposed to set up its own exchanges, making that cost federal.
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The law of unintended consequences will work here. In states with no exchanges, there will also be no wage and price controls. Freedom allows innovation in an open marketplace.
We cannot imagine how the claims will be paid to work around Obamatron-care, but it will be, without having to resort to a black market at all. Just as business is flocking to right to work states, medical innovation will flock to those states which provide fertile ground for it to grow.
” In states with no exchanges, there will also be no wage and price controls. Freedom allows innovation in an open marketplace.”
The conservative states should do what they can to preserve insurance options and the right not to purchase insurance. We all know that the Left will pine away for single payor when employers drop coverage in these states. We need to anticipate the situation and get in front of the issue.
By having insurance executives openly discuss free market insurance plans, we can prevent the Left from co-opting these executives. If health insurance executives perceive that the exchanges are inevitable, they will side will the Left. The media will pick up on this and the insurance execs (and their companies) will lobby the rinos to get the state exchanges through.
In a free market economy, the government doesn’t run “marketplaces”. This too shall fail.
like trying to change the name of Food Stamps to *SNAP. Isn't that snappy? I'm not on Food Stamps, I get SNAP. All of a sudden I'm not a low-information voter 'cause I got SNAP.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
The Obamacare Exchange is not for buying health insurance and its not a marketplace.
This sweeping bill imposes an IT superstructure. It hooks states up to a a national database of all your private data (the Federal Data Services Hub) for the purpose of:
tracking your insurance status,
imposing penalties under individual and employer mandate,
forcing people into government health (including the middle class through subsidized policies) and
imposing national health care.
The “Exchange” is not a marketplace. It’s a federal website (”state” in name only) on the federal Hub.
The bill sets up a federally-controlled board of seven political appointees in charge of maintaining 24/7 online IT connections with the Federal Data Services Hub.
In MN, The board is exempt from many state laws including rulemaking (you’ll have no meaningful right to object to anything it does) and the Minnesota Government data practices Act (you’ll have no transparency, no access to government records, no protections and no penalties).
imposing penalties under individual and employer mandate,
forcing people into government health (including the middle
class through subsidized policies) and
imposing national health care.
one more - finding out who has guns.
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