printSEX. GREED. FEAR. These are the time-honored sales tactics B. Hussein is using in pushing his healthscare Obamination. Who better to vouch for Obama’s used-car sales methods than a used-car salesman entertained on Neil Cavuto’s FoxNews program? B. Hussein got top marks from Cavuto’s car guy for hyping the sex appeal of the deal (cheap, good), for baffling Boobus with the numbers, and for playing on the fears we all harbor about our own mortality, and hammering home the urgency of the “deal.”. I could not find the segment on YouTube, but Don Imus invited Cavuto on his show to talk about it. Listen here.
In last week’s column, “And Now for Something Completely Different,” I mentioned the Mayo Clinic, which, as one of our readers pointed out, Obama had confused with the Mao Clinic:
Obama—who, to paraphrase poetry critic William Logan, never runs out of things to say, only things worth saying—promised that his medical system would be a well-oiled machine much like the Mayo Clinic is. There, “experts have figured out the most effective treatments and eliminated waste and unnecessary procedures,” preached the president.
Unlike Mephisto’s Medicare, the key to Mayo—and many such private not-for-profits—is not the all-knowing, demigod experts. Mayo clinic operates as smoothly as it does because it is a private clinic, where market forces and a mission combine to motivate dedicated entrepreneurs and professionals to minimize losses and maximize profits, so as to plow these back into an organization in which all are invested.
What’s the government’s mission? To keep Americans in the missionary position?
Well, what do you know: as the Washington Times reports, this superb clinic is panning Obamacare.
I find that whenever I am discussing health care, people often get very emotional and exclaim “but people NEED health care!” as if to imply that because one NEEDS something, one shouldn’t have to pay for it. It’s as if certain goods and services are just too important to leave to the market since it apparently has such a poor track record of delivering good and services where they are needed!
It’s mildly amusing that Democrats seem to be balking on Obama’s health care bill. At least, that’s what this article in Pravda on the Hudson seems to be saying.
There is a sense in which all health insurance programs are both gambles and Ponzi schemes. The person making the insurance purchase is betting that, in the event health care is needed, someone else will pay the real cost of that care. Any insurance program, public or private, that separates the person making the decision to purchase health care from the financial consequences of that decision will generate additional demand for the service. That is because the appetite for “free” stuff is virtually infinite. Once financial impact is removed as a consideration, the only way to control aggregate costs is through rationing.
Health care is not health insurance.
This is how the “debate” is being distorted.
I have auto insurance for my automobile. I don’t have “auto care” for my automobile. I pay for routine expenses for my auto out of my own pocket. Insurance, whether for health or auto, is designed for catastrophic events.
Those who emote about the issue should also have no opinion about the issue because they cannot think critically. They’re too stupid to realize he is using FUD: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt to sell his bill of goods.
But he’s no different than his immediate predecessor. George Bush used FUD to pass the Patriot Act and to go to war in the Middle East.
God help this country.
To compare Nancy Pelosi to a used car salesman would be to do a disservice to used car salesmen.
Nevertheless, here’s the latest pitch from this pretentious creature:
“America’s Affordable Health Choices Act will mean a cap on your cost but no cap on your benefit – a cap on your cost, no cap on your benefit. That represents real change.”
Video link: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/07/22/pelosi_health_care_reform_has_cap_on_costs_no_cap_on_benefits.html