Comments on: Obamacare: Like Throwing An Anchor To A Drowning Man

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:52:25 +0000

Medical Savings Accounts are also a bad idea although perhaps LESS bad. The Government has no legal or moral authority to tell people how to spend or save their money.

I think back to a Republican primary race in Massachusetts where the League of Women Voters had a questionnaire of the candidates – and one of the questions was – “What SORT of National Health Care Policy do you favor” and his reply was “The government should not be in the health care business”. He got my vote.

By: Roger Chaillet

Roger Chaillet — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:15:40 +0000

I have a feeling that President O cannot distinguish between a balance sheet and an income statement. Yet this has not stopped him from completely re-making the economy from top to bottom.

Be afraid.

Be very afraid.

By: Bob Schaefer

Bob Schaefer — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:31:14 +0000

A few observations on Obama’s health care press conference of last night:

Obama: “So I’ve got a middle-aged couple that will write me, and they say: Our daughter just found she’s got leukemia, and if I don’t do something soon, we just either are going to go bankrupt or we’re not going to be able to provide our daughter with the care that she needs. And in a country like ours, that’s not right. So that’s part of my rush.”

As I understand it, health care legislation is scheduled to be implemented in 2013. Oops!

Obama: “It will keep government out of health care decisions, giving you the option to keep your insurance if you’re happy with it.”

The President assumes the American health insurance system is broken. Yet, Americans will likely support Obama’s reforms ONLY if they are allowed to keep their current health insurance. Oops!

Obama: “It’s about every small business that has been forced to lay off employees or cut back on their coverage, because it became too expensive. It’s about the fact that the biggest driving force behind our federal deficit is the skyrocketing cost of Medicare and Medicaid.”

He concedes American businesses have to lay off employees and cut back on their coverage because of government intervention in the health care marketplace. His solution? More government intervention. Oops!

Obama: “So let me be clear. If we do not control these costs, we will not be able to control our deficit. If we do not reform health care, your premiums and out-of-pocket costs will continue to skyrocket.”

Isn’t it obvious that health care costs “skyrocket” because these costs are not paid directly by patients but indirectly by third parties? Obama’s solution? A system which excludes medical savings accounts and mandates a system of third party payers. Oops!

Obama: “Now, if you don’t have health insurance, or you’re a small business looking to cover your employees, you’ll be able to choose a quality affordable health plan through a health insurance exchange, in a marketplace that promotes choice and competition.”

Obama’s solution is a “marketplace that promotes choice and competition,” yet he proposes a phony, government-controlled “exchange” rather than the undisputed poster-child of choice and competition: the unregulated free market. Oops!

Oh to be blessed by a President with an IQ higher than God’s.

By: Keltin

Keltin — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:57:58 +0000

The ObamaCare Plan is the spike in the coffin for America's value system, not just the demise of health care. If the President and his Run-Everything 'bots in the administration are able to write another multi-thousand page bill that no one reads before voting, we're dead. I have no doubt there will be provisions in it that will set the stage for non-Healthcare expansion of government into the rest of our lives. We'll have nothing, literally, that is private anymore. [In this respect, Obama is completing the work of his predecessor, as I've documented for close to a decade.]