It's not often I quote Ann Coulter, but she does perfectly sum up the problem with US Health Insurance.
It would be as if the government prohibited us from buying cars unless they were Lexus SUVs, fully loaded with every possible option.
Then, when most Americans couldn't afford to buy a car, the Democrats could demand we pass "ObamaCar." Wolf could have asked: "A healthy 30-year-old young man decides, 'I'm not going to spend $100,000 or $200,000 for a car because, you know, I don't need it.' But something terrible happens, all of a sudden he needs it. Who's going to pay if he needs a car to escape a hurricane, for example? Who pays for that?"
Why are the only two options always a behemoth government program or the guy dies?
i had this whole missive written out, but decided to condense it down to this:
ReplyDeletewe've crossed the line of insanity and are now in a suicide spiral. it's no longer even about big government or the guy dying. it's about big government slapping big insurance on the ass and saying, "yeah bro, high five! we scored you mega $$!"
i'm an FDR democrat, so you know i believe in a public option. but what we got with this bill is a steaming pile of shit, and there is nothing redeeming about it. the only thing you might arguably point to as positive is that people can no longer be denied coverage. instead, they'll pay through the nose and then die bankrupt, just as they would have if they were never forced to purchase insurance in the first place.
fail. on all levels. total fail.