Is it Demint or is it Dim Wit on health care. Jim Demint says we've got to stop the President on health care. Here I thought we legislated or at least made it look like we legislated for the good of the country and the will of the people. Too bad Michael Steele is too stupidly ideological to realize the only case he is making is that the Republicans aren't concerned with the health care needs of regular people. They only seem to care about politics. We keep being fed creeping Socialism and Government health care so we will be afraid of changing the failed system we have.
Lets face it Republicans, in the face of astronomical costs for many of us Middle Class Americans the prospect of becoming really sick with no health care is far scarier than a public option plan.
In a post by Alien Abduction on Daily Kos, he noted that you won't hear the following words in Canada:
out of network, co-pay, monthly premium/deductible, waiting for approval,COBRA, health insurance lobby, bureaucracy, pre-existing condition, individual risk, uninsurable, profit.
In another Daily Kos post from 7/22/09 on Bag of Health and Politics diary, they noted a study by the Commonwealth Fund that showed that the Public Option could save America $265 billion. The approach favored by Charles Grassley ( R-Ia ) allowing the current near monopoly of for profit insurance companies would cost Americans 32 billion dollars.
The report noted that regulation of the insurance industries ability to discriminate against chronically ill patients, broader pooling of risks and much more streamlined administration over private insurance would be where the savings came from.
That said, I am not completely in love with the plan as currently constituted. One of the provisions in all the plans circulating around D.C. is the Individual mandate. Stripped of its blarney, this means we would be forced to buy insurance. When you see all the money Max Baucus and his gang of thieves is amassing, this is one piece of why the insurance lobby is willing to spend 1.4 million dollars each and every day to influence the direction this legislation takes.
For all those who love to ask, do you want government controlling health care? If it was really all that bad why would they need to spend 1.4 million daily to defeat it? They are really afraid if exposed to a real public option you won't want the expensive poor quality crap they create. Private insurance is bent on doing to health care what Wall Street has done to your retirement.
They are salivating at the prospects of 50 million new people for them to insure because of the coerced purchase of insurance. This keeps the insurance industries monopoly in place and because of the risk of fines for non-compliance we could be charged whatever they chose to gouge us with. This is not what many of us meant by universal health insurance.
Here is the problem: As Michael Laskoff noted on July 19th Huffington Post, the status quo threatens our whole way of life. Today, $16 out of every $100 dollars created by our economy goes into our failed health care system. When the figure hits $20 we are in deep trouble. The sheer magnitude of expenditures will pull the rest of the economy down. Conservative estimates are that health care costs are growing at 6% annually. The point of no return is coming up fast!
Instead, we get the Democrats dialing for Dollars, while Republicans are channeling Nancy Reagan and just saying No. Do we have any adults running this nation?
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