GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF HEALTHCARE
They said Obamacare was not a “government takeover of health care”. To defend this preposterous claim the point to the “overwhelming reliance” on the “free market“, they had to compare it to total federal government ownership of all medical facilities.
Which of course NOBODY meant when they said it was a government takeover.
First, let us get this straight, that this is NOT any “free market” AT ALL. In fact, the reason for the controversy is precisely because it relies overwhelmingly on a massive regulatory regime. Government intervention on steroids. And built into the design, even if you want to call it intentional, is failure, presumably to get it replaced with another overwhelming government intervention.
A reliance on the free market would kill the already massive burden of government interventions in the medical markets, a removal of the barriers to interstate commerce in medical insurance, treating individuals on an equal level with businesses with respect to the tax deductions, and even getting out of the massive distortions caused already by massive government intervention that caused the problems in the first place.
This is why great numbers of institutions, doctors, and individuals are “opting out”.
NO JAIL FOR REFUSING TO BUY, YET
..But it might come to that to make it work, if they don’t desist. We’ll see, they may have other tricks.
RATIONING CARE AND DENYING TREATMENTS.
Oh gosh, Politi-lies keeps on getting hit my the truth! Even the hottest defenders have to admit now that they have to ration care to make it work. The kicker is that it is “only” when spending reaches certain levels. As if it will never. Ha.
And the law only introduced these panels that vote up or down on care, they said, “to control costs for Medicare“. That means, more of the elderly now have the option of denial of care.
Sorry, Virginia, it’s true, there are indeedy “death panels’
So in the very next paragraph after where they admit the death panels (by any other name), they say that the Death Panels are a falsehood!
Well, Politi-maybe was right on one thing. An overturning of this abominable law would not be an unprecedented and extraordinary overturning of a law passed by Congress, another of Obama’s lies.
Lord help us and keep us in these times coming upon us… “God is not a man, that he should lie”.
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