Three Years On, Obamacare Has Become Irresistable

Government is basically just a legalized version of organized crime...or is it an organized version of legalized crime? I can never remember which is which.

Actually I think social security SHOULD be called an entitlement! You paid for it and you should be “entitled” to it. What I think is absurd is calling food stamps and such entitlements, no one should be entitled to receive them.

“The fact is, Medicare (which remains massively popular, even around here) has killed the system - it just took 40 years to die.”
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I agree totally and I am probably the only person who recalls this but very soon after Medicare went into effect a report came out saying that a person who went into the hospital under medicare would come out owing a copay greater than the entire bill would have been before Medicare. Medicare in reality did little or nothing to help the people it was supposed to help but it made a lot of people rich. If there had never been any Medicare or any other form of federal interference in medicine we would never have had a “healthcare crisis”. There was a time when a week in a hospital would mean a large bill but it did not consume a year or two of an average person’s income. I clearly remember when I thought a hospital room that cost $32. a day was simply outrageous. In those days a person who woke up feeling sick could go to the doctor’s waiting room and be treated within a couple of hours without an appointment and pay $5. or so for the visit, not a copay, the entire charge.

The “healthcare crisis” is entirely a creation of the federal government and the feds are now convinced that they must destroy the healthcare system in order to save it! The end result will be no real healthcare for any but a tiny elite and the rest will be forced to pay large fines for not participating in a fake system that offers nothing to the participant except the opportunity to die of “complications”. The thing I find most amazing is that so many “adults” actually believed that it was a good idea to turn health care over to the feds. Why can people never learn that the federal government thrives by creating chaos, not by solving problems?

Some people are starting to realize that they can do a lot to take care of their own health and some have not been to see a “medical professional” in many years. I suppose at some point the government will find it necessary to mandate that people see a doctor at least twice a year.