Obama's Health Care Cancer

When Hillary's 1993 nationalized healthcare proposal fell flat, liberals did not accept that the American people rejected nationalized healthcare. Instead, they try again in stealth. Obama's healthcare plan is a cancer to the existing private system. Eventually it will get destroyed.

Here's how it will play out: After the government creates the public option, they can attract enrollees with low costs and high coverage. At first, reports in the media will be honestly positive. The government will be able to do this by running deficits. Then some companies may drop employer based coverage since there is a seemingly efficient government plan. A

t the same time, the government will increase regulation on existing insurers to make it impossible to do business. They will limit what insures can charge, while forcing them to add costs such as covering pre-existing conditions or elective proceedures. No one expects someone to be able to sign up for car insurance after you've gotten into an accident. (Nobody thinks that insurance should cover installing fancy rims on your car either. Apparently though, the left have convinced a substantial number of people that healthcare should do just that.)

Once the private system is destroyed the government will be in full control. However, now that they have the entire nation's healthcare to pay for, running enormous deficits indefinitely is impossible. So they will face the reality of trying to manage the budget. This is when quality of care will start decreasing, when old people are left to die, and cancer patients become expendable.

There will be additional incentive to cut care. Every extra dollar spent on healthcare is one less dollar the government can spend on pork projects.



Obama has said nothing regarding the pros and cons of other govermnment provided healthcare systems such as Massachussetts, Canada, or Britian. A honest person would talk about the deficits of such systems and how his system would be better.
His cost projects are dillusionally low
He keeps repeating this statistics that 47 million are uninsured. This statistic is really the number of people who at some point in the year did not have health insurance. This includes illegal immigrants, young people who don't need it, or people swtiching jobs. (If you quit a job on a Friday and start on the following Monday, you don't have insurance for a weekend.)
Obama claims that the government will be able to reduce costs? How?

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