Posted on 04/11/2013 1:48:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
I’m going to make an assertion that seems utterly absurd.
The enactment of Obamacare may have been good news.
Before sending a team of medical attendants to cart me off to a sanitarium, allow me to elaborate. I’m not saying Obamacare is good policy. After all, I’ve written over and over again that it is a budget-busting boondoggle that will exacerbate our real healthcare crisis of third-party payer.
What I am saying, though, is that Obamacare may turn out to be a major political mistake for the left, one that sets the stage for sweeping free market reforms.
Here’s my six-part hypothesis.
All this will be much easier said than done, of course, and it is disconcerting that we’ll probably have to rely on feckless Republicans to implement these reforms.
But at least there’s a plausible scenario for systemic reform, and that wasn’t the case before Obamacare was enacted. In other words, the President’s signature achievement may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory for the left.
P.S. Watch this excellent video from Reason TV to see how a genuine free market could deliver health care at lower cost and with greater efficiency. For another example, here’s a report from North Carolina on free-market healthcare in action.
P.P.S. This post is part of my let’s-be-optimistic series. Previous editions include:
I have to agree wth the shade of glasses.
For forty-five years or therabouts, the government has insinuated itself into the healthcare industry, and was its downfall into an oblivion of regulatory compliance, insurance hoop jumping, and inseparable entwinement with the legal industry. And to “fix” it, the government and its lawyers now claim dominion over the whole ball of wax. How that story ends isn’t hard to predict.
People always respond to government actions.
Under OCare, there will be a growing market of cash-only, patient-pays arrangements, or bartering, no-paper transactions. And people will simply not get treatment and die, which I intend to do in order to not burden my family with the bills.
This author is delusional if he thinks Obamacare will be repealed.
The one and only way that government healthcare (and all other Unconstitutional undertakings) will end will be if there is a total, absolute economic collapse -- something no one wants.
Socialism is a cancer that slowly eats away the Freedoms and prosperity of any society that is foolish enough to undertake its implementation.
For whatever it's worth, I am already hearing this from erstwhile obamacare enthusiasts.
Why don’t you wait and see instead of being so pessimistic
Keep dreaming and taking what you are taking. It is easier to cope when you don’t have to face reality.
But they will only want to change it, massage it, adjust it and not repeal it. They want their free stuff. Unless the Repubs do a magnificent job of selling a viable and real fix to healthcare costs while repealing obamacare, then...sigh...forget it.
Honestly, I would like to be more optimistic about things, but November 2012 pretty much killed whatever hope I had left in the republic. If 52% of the people who voted wanted the Kenyan POS reelected, IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING HE'S F-ED UP the past 4 years, well I don't know what else to say.
PLUS
whatever amount of the cost is subsidized by the government or another entity.
So if you are unhappy that the cost of medical care and of a quality education is going through the roof...
look no further than government as the source of the problem.
If government subsidizes the cost of something through direct payments and or tax policy... the cost of that item will always be the amount of that subsidy plus the cost people are willing/able to pay, ALWAYS. Thus as government sees the cost escalating and attempts to FIX the problem by increasing subsidizes... they are in fact only worsening the problem!
Yes, Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
Yeah ..... "Health care is the keystone of the arch of Soviet power." -- V.I. Lenin
Not even considering what he is and who he is and what he has refused to do (come clean) as basic questions that earn him a MASSIVE FAIL on half-a-dozen different metrics of political electability.
He won't even tell us he's a citizen. (I think, because he can't.)
Democrats will never blame government for anything.
And, thanks to MSM stonewalling, low information voters will never blame ObamaCare.
Yeah, I hear them complaining about Obamacare also. What they want instead is to go to single payer right away to avoid the problems Obamacare will bring.
Americans will resort to genocide LONG before they resort to common sense.
Most will never figure it out. Obummacare is here to stay unfortunately.
Back in the nineties, I heard that there were three countries at the time where you could be thrown in prison for practicing medicine outside the system for Government medical rationing, Cuba, North Korea, and Canada. We might be going there too.
The best and brightest docs will head offshore to some Caribbean tax haven where medical tourism from the US will become a significant growth industry.
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