‘Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.’ Should be spoken from the WH daily.
Hey Charles, and Alwhore said we’d all be under water on both coasts a couple of years ago. I have more faith in the American people than that.
You will know he’s right when Insurance Execs start angling for their golden parachutes. That will be the Two-Minute Warning.
He’s right. People now view health care as an entitlement that they deserve. And to talk about health “insurance” is a joke. There was a debate on CNN between 8 Liberals who all agreed with one another. They were complaining about men who don’t like the fact that their premiums go up because men are forced to pay for mammograms, female birth control, and abortions. And they went nuts to any debate on the notion that unhealthy people with unhealthy lifestyles should be held accountable per their premiums.
I know the Hammer is somewhat unpopular around here, but he could very well be right about this. In other words, embrace the suck, get a passport and start setting aside a small medical tourism fund for when you are inevitably told that because of your age, gender, ethnicity or political beliefs, your medical condition is not a ‘priority’ to society...
I think he’s more or less correct. We will go through some transition to Trump-Care, and maybe one more version...before there’s literally no choices left except single-payer.
After three years of single-payer, we will agree that it marginally works....ensures we have a lesser degree of health coverage than ever before....and learn that there’s really nothing left on the table. At that point, some people....with real incomes....will just go and sign up for 4-star healthcare beyond what single-payer will offer, and just go on with their life. The rest will be stuck with the marginal threshold.
That’s what the commie traitors have always said they were moving to...single payer.
Krauthammer is now just another schmuck pundit that has been embarrassingly wrong for the past year and one half. His petty anti-Trump rants are nauseating and predictable.
Unfortunately for socialists/communists, capitalism produces all the things they wish to “redistribute.”
Once they kill it, they very shortly thereafter run out of fodder for “redistribution.”
Just ask a Venezuelan.
No, what he really means is that he has a boner hoping for single payer. Chaz is a not only a moron, he’s a liberal.
Big move toward single-payer in CA. I’ll bet it comes to pass soon. About the time I retire I’ll have free healthcare that I won’t be able to access.
A total negative nellie. He also called for a one dollar tax on every gallon of gas.
Ah, the TDS is strong with this one. He can’t, just can’t celebrate and give the President his do, sad actually. I’d love to hear what Bill Kristol has to say, oh wait, he self exited the stage....
When was the last time Krautjammer was right about anything?
If the GOP has done what is being advertised, I agree. It would appear that the GOP proposes to continue to support certain aspects of 0bamacare then it will fail as well. Continuing to refuse to explicitly weigh in on whether healthcare is a right is, IMHO, an abrogation of the duty of COngress. By not explicitly stating the obvious, it cannot be, the default is that it is but without the uproar that would occur if they just said as much. Typical cowards.
Since the healthcare legislation that is proposed is built on a lie it can never succeed. When it fails a new proposal that even further entrenches the notion of healthcare as a right will follow and the inevitable end is gummint healthcare. Of course, this will also be a disaster but by then the Rats will be back in power and all the damage can be blamed on the GOP.
Trump won but not by a huge margin and the pendulum of US politics will start swinging against the GOP soon. In my opinion, Trump could do something to prevent these things but it would require him to really strike fear into the hearts of the wanna be fascists. So far I see no real effort to make them fear him.
Socialist US bump for later....
Even a stopped clock is correct twice each day and Charles is correct that even conservatives have now accepted a Federal Government responsibility for health care, or more accurately, health care insurance. Conservatives no longer hold to the principal that the Federal Government has no responsibility in this area; they now just talk about who can design and administer the program best. It is no longer a question of “whether to do it”, but just “how it will be done”. It is just like a bolder falling down a mountain. It can’t fall back up.
Posted elsewhere on the sametopic:
Not quite.
First, the dispensing of health care is in the hands of the provider. That means the doctor. The one group in all of this mess who have been most hostile to government rationed health care is the doctors. If they can get out of the trap they will not go back to it or any semblance of it.
Second, people who can afford health care are not interested in one size fits all government insurance. Middle class citizens understand intuitively that there are differences in the quality of care dependent upon one’e ability to pay. Government care does not guarantee quality of care. Quite the reverse, it reduces care to a level below affordable expectations.
Third, not to beat a dead horse, but, if I can pay for a Cadillac and want a Cadillac, why would I be willing to pay the same money for a Honda?
Fourth, about that horse, the old system of Medicaid for the poor is just fine for the poor. Or maybe it is not but it is not fine for everybody.