Gulp! I don't know about you, but I couldn't be more spooked-out if it were October 31st and a guy wearing a white mask named Michael Meyers were standing on my front doorstep wielding a Ginzu knife!
The Hilldabeast has a plan to (get ready for it, the most terrifying word in the English language for a libertarian/conservative like me) REQUIRE every American to have health insurance.
AAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!
If you have a strong stomach, get a load of this:
Clinton's package would also require insurers to provide coverage for anyone who applies for it and would also bar insurance companies from charging people with greater health care costs more for their premiums.
"Are you a recalcitrant smoker who mainlines Coca Cola (and maybe even a little smack here and there), NO PROBLEM! We'll be happy to cover you for the same cost as everyone else!"
"What's that? You're having trouble finding a doctor? They say they're not taking any new patients? Full up? And the only doctor you could find who isn't is a large animal Vet? Hmmmm....That wasn't part of the plan! Oh, and you decided to quit your job and can no longer afford the premiums, so you need us to pay for your care? And because you have no doctor you'll be using the ER as your Primary Care physician? Uh, erm, okay, uh, that could work (in an alternate universe on the other side of one of Saturn's moons, perhaps)."
You see what I mean? It's a horror film waiting to happen. They could call it "Night and Day of the living but soon-to-be-dead-from-preventable-diseases."
Alternate titles could be: "The Blob that Ate the Federal Budget," "Live Expensively, Die Broke," or "Illegal Alien Predators: Requiem for American Healthcare."
Because that's one thing you KNOW Hillary's plan will do--it will count as "Americans" all the undocumented people in this country. They will be "required" to have health insurance, and since not one of them is technically really here, the gov't will have to pay for it like they pay for their schooling and (if she has her way) their college tuition.
The most scary thing of all? This delusional woman says it will only cost us $160 Billion? HA! And in case anyone hasn't already figured it out, that's still a LOT of money that has to come from somewhere, and where do you think that's gonna be?
And lest you think Wall Street will oppose this, you're wrong. They are loving this! A federal subsidy so that MORE people will be buying products the publicly traded healthcare companies sell? No limit to who can get insurance? No matter how often they plan to hog up the resources the already over-burdened system has to offer? And I have to presume there will be a prescription drug component too. Pretty cruel to FORCE people to go see a doctor who spends all of 35 seconds with the patient diagnosing them with a condition that will require insulin to treat (most likely) or high blood pressure meds, or some other pharmaco product. So the street loves that too. More for them, courtesy of the taxpayers!
Wall Street loves nothing better than guaranteed dollars coming there way, and if it means that you and I won't have as much left over to spend on other consumables (like food), OH WELL! Healthcare costs more to begin with than groceries, so if you have to buy one or the other, they'll take the former any day!
This is the part of the film where I yell "RUN!!! Don't go check out that noise in the basement! The power is out, it's midnight and there's a thunderstorm going on? What on Earth do you expect to find there???"
Posted by insomnomaniac at September 17, 2007 12:15 PM | TrackBack