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Why We Should Be Optimistic about Repealing Obamacare and Fixing the Healthcare System
Townhall.com ^ | April 11, 2013 | Daniel J. Mitchell

Posted on 04/11/2013 1:48:14 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 04/11/2013 1:48:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
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2 posted on 04/11/2013 1:51:47 PM PDT by mbarker12474 (If thine enemy offend thee, give his childe a drum.)
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I have to agree wth the shade of glasses.


3 posted on 04/11/2013 1:55:23 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (A return to Jesus and prayer in the schools is the only way.)
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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.


4 posted on 04/11/2013 1:58:18 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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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.


5 posted on 04/11/2013 1:59:14 PM PDT by lurk
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The enactment of Obamacare may have been good news.

This author is delusional if he thinks Obamacare will be repealed.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.

6 posted on 04/11/2013 2:17:27 PM PDT by sand88
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they will be much more likely to blame “Obamacare” and “government” for all the warts and inefficiencies of the healthcare system

For whatever it's worth, I am already hearing this from erstwhile obamacare enthusiasts.

7 posted on 04/11/2013 2:23:09 PM PDT by Salvey
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Why don’t you wait and see instead of being so pessimistic


8 posted on 04/11/2013 2:31:41 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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Keep dreaming and taking what you are taking. It is easier to cope when you don’t have to face reality.


9 posted on 04/11/2013 2:34:37 PM PDT by sport
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For whatever it's worth, I am already hearing this from erstwhile obamacare enthusiasts.

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.

10 posted on 04/11/2013 2:40:17 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Cyprus - the beginning)
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Why don’t you wait and see instead of being so pessimistic

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.

11 posted on 04/11/2013 2:45:19 PM PDT by Marathoner (Republicans are socialists, Democrats are communists, we are sooo screwed!)
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The cost of ANY product or service will ALWAYS equal what people are willing/able to pay for it

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!

12 posted on 04/11/2013 3:16:06 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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Yes, Denial is not just a river in Egypt.


13 posted on 04/11/2013 3:26:36 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord deliver us from evil, in Jesus name, amen.)
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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.

Yeah ..... "Health care is the keystone of the arch of Soviet power." -- V.I. Lenin

14 posted on 04/11/2013 3:28:10 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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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.

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.)

15 posted on 04/11/2013 3:31:05 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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Re: “They will be much more likely to blame “Obamacare” and “government.”

Democrats will never blame government for anything.

And, thanks to MSM stonewalling, low information voters will never blame ObamaCare.

16 posted on 04/11/2013 3:32:22 PM PDT by zeestephen
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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.


17 posted on 04/11/2013 3:34:46 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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Americans will resort to genocide LONG before they resort to common sense.

Most will never figure it out. Obummacare is here to stay unfortunately.


18 posted on 04/11/2013 3:34:56 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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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.


19 posted on 04/11/2013 3:42:06 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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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.


20 posted on 04/11/2013 3:43:32 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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