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NO, AMERICA -- YOU CAN'T KEEP THE HEALTH INSURANCE YOU HAVE NOW
"I thought the Democrats would over-reach fairly quickly, but never thought they would reach a tipping point this soon. Obama may have thrown his fellow Dems under the bus, but they still have their hands on his arm and will drag him there, too, in 2012."
Rasmussen poll: Obamacare is opposed 50% to 35%. Those numbers will get worse as the freedom-destroying aspects of the Democrat House Destroy-health-freedom Act gets more widely known.
The leftists cant help it. They will throw away non-leftist politicians like tissue paper in their irrational radical zeal to destroy private health insurance in America.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 17.07.2009 @ 13:23
"I used to think Rick was smarter and more sensible than the hoopleheads that worship Malkin and Beck but apparently not. Whats next Rick? Gonna jump on the “birthers” wagon?"
Ad hominems do not make for refutation. What next, a Hitler comparison? I used to think liberals had an actual agenda. Apparently not; all they have is incoherent rage against the right.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 17.07.2009 @ 13:14
#4:
"Pretty good analysis, Rick. I agree that Congress has been reluctant to deal with the enormous cost of the health plan. The CBO has been very good at their job, thank goodness."
Well ... the Devil is in the details, and huge cost of this is squeezing every aspect of the healthcare system dry. First, the 8% payroll tax on all business w/out health insurance; that's a job killer right there. Second, the surtax that drives top-end income tax rates to levels not seen since Jimmy Carter days. Third, they strong-armed 'savings' out of private insurers. Forth, they are raiding the State Budgets with a Medicaid expansion unfunded mandate. Fifth, cram-down on Medicare costs that will crimp granny's healthcare. Last put not least, screwing the voluntarily uninsured for good measure.
"Obama has been very clear all along that if nothing is done, there is little chance that you will have the same health plan in the near future."
Other than the well-known fact that Medicare is going bankrupt someday (a problem this bill only makes worse), his statement is bunk.
" And most likely it will be a worse plan."
Those are threats of a THUG. Basically Obama is saying 'do it my way or we'll break the whole system."
"The health care system is not working for the country as a whole. For example, the cost of providing emergency room care to the uninsured is expensive."
Whatever the cost, it's $1 trillion LESS than the Obamacare plan. So the plan is like taking a Lexus that needs a brakejob, breaking the transmission, replacing the V-8 with a 4-cyl, and doing a cheap repainting job, NOT fixing the brakes and calling it "reform".
" We all end up footing the bill for that, but that does not appear on any balance sheet. It’s a hidden tax,"
It's not hidden, you have Federal and state budget items for these things. In our town they have $80 million for local clinics. These were justified based on the argument that it was 'cheaper' than emergency care rooms. I've come to conclude that the whole line of argumentation is bogus. They add more and more free services, and naturally, people use them. Many of those people, at least here in Texas, are illegal aliens, who are counted as part of the uninsured. How much of the $1 trillion price tag is really about get more health care for that population, and/or preparing us for the social welfare cost explosion if/when this population gets amnesty? Quite a bit, if you peel back the numbers.
" one of many in the current system- the goal of health care reform is to reduce those taxes, and to bring them out into the open- not eliminate them, but reduce them."
ObamaCare clearly increasing Government costs, burdens, regulations, taxes and involvement in the healthcare sector.
"How about a post where you discuss the competing plans that have been advanced by Douthat and any other conservatives?"
The problem with talking about conservative plans is that they are right now academic. Such plans are out there with a quick google to Heritage, Cato, Republican Study Group, etc. Good ideas abound. But its irrelevent as the Democrats have a majority and will NOT consider them at all.
The Democrats in Congress have ignored Republican input on issue after issue and are planning a partisan left-liberal cramdown of the biggest tax-spend-regulation bill they can get. They did it on stimulus, on waxman-markey, on budget, and now on obamacare. it's a dreadful way to operate, but it does simplify the Republican response. All they can and should do is say NO to this awful left-liberal policy garbage coming out of the Democrat Congress, and explain to the American people in detail why these bills are bad for America. Which they are.
"Then show how those plans has been adopted by the Republicans in Congress, and how they have tried to advance them, but been spurned by the Democrats."
Why dont you take your own advice, do the research/lookup and post it? The House GOP has been there, done that.Keep your mandates off my prostates!
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 17.07.2009 @ 12:40
"The goal is to reduce everyone’s consumption of health care and to ensure that people have the same health-care experience, regardless of ability to pay."
The real problem is that the liberals are solving a 'problem' that isnt a problem here. Do we spend 'too much' on healthcare? This assumes that people are making 'wrong' choices. Maybe they are, but if they are choices freely made and not burdening others, it's not Govt's issue to address.
Health care affordability is an issue but rationing or restricting the free choice to buy healthcare is not a solution to the affordability issue. As such, Obamacare is wrongly premised and it destined to do far more harm than good.
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2009/07/ten-ways-obamacare-will-kill-you.html
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 17.07.2009 @ 12:13
"The section in question defines the term “grandfathered” and absolutely does not prevent people from keeping the health care that they have."
The very fact that some choices are "grandfathered" is proof enough that the bill reduces choice for individuals in the future. You lose your job now and decide to be self-employed, you can get whatever bare-bones health insurance you want. You make the same decision after the bill is passed, then you are FORCED either to pay a huge fine or get onto an exchange-only plan, with 1,000 pages of legislation spawning phonebooks full of regulations mandating coverage.
Oh, and one more thing - like Obama's promises, the 'grandfather' thing has an expiration date - 2018 ...
http://www.redstate.com/ddstrain/2009/07/16/the-sec-102-promise-to-let-you-keep-your-existing-health-coverage-you-didnt-expect-them-to-let-you-keep-it-forever-do-you/
So this is a bill that will via the massive Government mandates on both individuals and employers, and via Govt regulations and subsidies, herd all Americans not in BigEmployerHealthcare into the PublicOption/Medicaid-for-all/SinglePayer system.
Keep your Mandates off my Prostates!
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 17.07.2009 @ 12:10
"When you file your taxes, if you can’t prove to the IRS that you are in a qualified plan, you’ll be fined thousands of dollars — as much as the average cost of a health plan for your family size — and then automatically enrolled in a randomly selected plan (House bill, p. 167-168)."
Correct. Basically the 10 million 'uninsured' who make over $50,000 a year but stay off of insurance because it is too expensive, will be ... SCREWED. Peel the onion and you find that the 'problem' the Liberals are "solving" is free people making free choices that liberals find inconvenient. Hey presto, chain-gang them into forced individual mandate to but health insurance and the 'problem' of freedom is 'solved'.
Keep your Mandates off my Prostates!
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 17.07.2009 @ 12:02
Wow. A lot of vicious, vile ad hominems, content-free of actual substance contra the Post and Rick Moran.
Yet as #8 notes:
"The fact is she is not the only source of this info. The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily and a host of other sources are reporting the same things, and worse."Indeed. The best source is the bill itself:
“Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day” of the year the legislation becomes law.
You are herded from a free market in insurance into a rigged "Exchange system" where the Govt makes the rules, holds the cards, and tilts the playing field with subsidies and forbidding of risk management. It's a pathetic charade to pretend these rules wont destroy private health insurance - that's the POINT. The Waxman endgame always was Single Payer, this is just the 'boiling the frog' version of it.
Ten Ways Obamacare will Kill You:
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 17.07.2009 @ 11:58
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2009/07/ten-ways-obamacare-will-kill-you.html
OBAMA'S MEASURED RESPONSE ON IRAN AND THE PENSION CRISIS
The 'stupid baserunning' began with the arrogant belief that his pandering Cairo speech would move mountains.
Note how much Obama uses "I" in statements, as if his personal opinion is all-important rather than the view of the American people or US Government.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 23.06.2009 @ 07:39
STUNNING VICTORY AT THE POLLS FOR DEMOCRACY IN LEBANON
Thank you for an excellent analysis.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 8.06.2009 @ 09:49
THE MOST EXPENSIVE DATE NIGHT IN HISTORY
"I’m curious: how much did Mr. Bush’s many brush-clearing expeditions to his Potemkin ranch cost? "
As a fellow Texas brush-clearer, I can assure you, the cost is less than a broadway show. Actually, aside from chewing through power chain saw chains, the cost is ... zero. I do run into a tarantula now and then, but nothing else requiring any security detail. Plus, the cedar grow like weeds, so its not like that's a cost.
I think the compare would go like this:
Night for 2 out on Broadway -
Broadway show, 2 tickets @75/each - $150
Dinner + wine in swank Manhattan restaurant - $260
Limo, driver, etc. for the night $500
Security - $ thousands$
Air force one for a night - $200,000Day chopping Cedar in central Texas summer heat
Cedar - free
Heat - free
Lemonade after a days working out in 100F heat - $2"Good wood?"
"But of course we knew at least that he and Laura weren’t having hot jungle sex." Really? And you know this ... how?
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 31.05.2009 @ 16:08
