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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (82597)	4/14/2010 12:44:18 PM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224744

The painful reality of ObamaCare March 25, 2010\|By Jonah Goldberg First: Congratulations to President Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership. You won dirty against bipartisan opposition from both Congress and the majority of Americans. You've definitely polarized the country even more, and quite possibly bankrupted us too. Bubbly for everyone. Simply, you have nationalized health care by proxy. Insurance companies are now heavily regulated government contractors. Way to get big business out of Washington and our lives! These giant corporations will clear a small, government-approved profit on top of their government-approved fees. Then, when health care costs rise — and they will — Democrats will insist, yet again, that the profit motive is to blame, and out from this ObamaCare Trojan horse will pour another army of liberals demanding a more honest version of single-payer. The Obama administration has turned the insurance industry into the Blackwater of socialized medicine. Advertisement Ads by Google Medicare SupplementKeep Your Own Doctor With Medicare Supplement Ins From Mutual Of Omaha www.MutualMedicare.comHealth Insurance PlansNo Email Address Required. Compare the Best Health Plans Instantly! www.eHealthInsurance.comHorizon™ Official SiteAffordable Individual Health Care Get Free No-Oblig Info & Rate Quote Horizon-BCBSNJ.Info/Personal-Health That's always what Obama had in mind. During the legendary health care summit, Obama, who loves to talk about "risk pools," "competition," "consumer choice" and the like, let it slip that he doesn't believe in insurance as commonly understood. The notion that Americans should buy the health care "equivalent of Acme Insurance that I had for my car" seemed preposterous to him. "I'm buying that to protect me from some catastrophic situation," he explained. "Otherwise, I'm just paying out of pocket. I don't go to the doctor. I don't get preventive care. There are a whole bunch of things I just do without. But if I get hit by a truck, maybe I don't go bankrupt." Apparently, people are just too stupid to go to the doctor — or maintain their homes — if they have to pay much of anything out of pocket. The endgame was to get the young and healthy to buy more expensive insurance than they need or want. "Expanding the risk pool" and "spreading out the risk" by mandating — i.e., forcing — young people to buy insurance is just market-based spin for socialist ends. A risk pool is an actuarial device where a lot of people pay a small sum to cover themselves against a "rainy day" problem that will affect only a few people. Such "peace of mind" health insurance is gone. What we have now is health assurance. With health assurance, there are no "risk pools" really, only payment plans. Under the new law, all the exits from the system are blocked. You can't opt out or even buy cheap, high-deductible Acme Car-type insurance.

To: lorne who wrote (82597)	4/14/2010 2:46:05 PM
From: MJ	Respond to of 224744

These are the must straight forward words I have ever, ever read of Larry Sabato's. Too bad Sabato did not speak out "loudly" before Obama's being chosen to be the Dem candidate. Sabato is allowing for 8 years-------come now Mr. Sabato get in sync with the rest of Virginia-----Virginians gave a resounding no to Obama and any extension of his being in office with the recent elections in Virginia. Sabato needs to stay in the center and not be swooned by the leftist wing of the Dem party. Historically he is a good observer----however, has been thought to appear to favor the Democrats of Virginia.