Michael Ramirez has this right. Kudos to Powerline for this. With the government casting it's shadow over the auto industry, health care, the insurance industry, the banking industry, the investment industry, well We the People is lost.
Insurance premiums will stay stable, until Jan 1, 2011 when the typical insurance company will be forced to raise their rates significantly because of ratio requirements required of them by this legislation. The government will scream and howl at the dirty rotten insurance companies and demand a government takeover. Some people involved in the industry give them 3 years or so to be able to remain in business, then you will have a public option as the only thing available. Think Big Government Insurance. It is interesting with all this politicizing that the timing of almost all the effects of the health care bill coincided quite nicely with election dates so the Democrat Party will hopefully not feel the wrath of the people when they finally realize what has happened. As one man said today, who has been without insurance, "It's Christmas" Doing the math, if 31 million are without insurance, buying a policy that costs 1000 a month or 12, 000 a year would equal about 370 billion dollars. A lot less than the price tag quoted by the Administration.
Folks, I have been watching these people work since I started reading the paper in 1964 when I was 9 years old. If you think this is going to be a roughly $900 billion dollar program you are absolutely nuts. The funny part is we have no where near the personnel in health care to deal with this, and you will see many health care practitioners either leave the profession or cut back markedly, or, and I think this is a real possibility, start private pay clinics where the level and type of diagnosis and treatment will continue to approach the levels we expect today. This was not about health care. None of the programs from the New Deal through the Great Society to this Monstrosity were about taking care of people, they were about controlling people and their lives, forcing them to become minions of the State, losing their self respect and capacity to care for others. More on Health Care and Human Nature later this week.
Great post Greg. For one the bill is a joke. But I don't think that's what we should really be worried about. The thing that scares me is what a show of power this is by the government. Running their own agenda right in the face of outrage by the genreal public. I have 350 friends on my facebook page and I have yet to see 1 person who wants this. And I'm pretty darn sure they are not ALL republicans!
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