The cost of Obamacare: insurance premiums versus health care itself
I’ve got a new piece up at PJ. Recently there have been a host of articles purporting to compare the cost of health insurance premiums under Obamacare with the cost of premiums today, or with the costs originally projected under the program. But that’s only a small part of a much bigger picture about the costs of Obamacare.
I simply wish they would stop referring to this as “health care” and use the proper term, “insurance Ponzi scheme” to describe the ACA.
WHEW..! What a relief!!
Just now read at Drudge that NBC will be “explaining” (read:Defending, Boosting, Blathering)ObamsterCare on its broadcasts all through next week. Are we not blessed, Herr Goebbels?
Yes – here we are. And we’re here because we have too many damn people in this country who believe “free stuff” is more important than “free-dom”.
And they’re about to get it “good and hard.”
Pelosi said we had to pass the law to know what is in it. She didn’t say how long it would take to get to part 2.
The fleecing of America did not begin with Obamacare, but it will enjoy substantial progress once it is finally birthed.
It is merely a clump of policies. Dismember it. Vacuum it. Flush it. Obamacare is the wrong choice. It preserves the status quo and the selfish interests which it benefits.
A 2700 page bill with over 10,000 pages of regulations. What could go wrong? Sigh!
Continuing my previous comment: The crafters of the ACA never heard of Murphy’s Law.
HaHaHa.
Found on page 2 of today’s WaPo story about the Shutdown:
“On Saturday, as this drama played out on Capitol Hill, Obama played golf at Fort Belvoir in Virginia.”
Despite his awful jump shot, Baraq still thinks he is politics’ Michael Jordan.
A perfect encapsulation of it all:
“Obamacare is something new in American life: the creation of a massive bureaucracy charged with downsizing you – to a world of fewer doctors, higher premiums, lousier care, more debt, fewer jobs, smaller houses, smaller cars, smaller, fewer, less; a world where worse is the new normal.” Said by Mark Steyn here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/359778/worse-new-normal-mark-steyn/page/0/1
IrateNate: “insurance Ponzi scheme” – that’s exactly what it is.
Here’s what my last temp job offered and called it “healthcare insurance.”
Premiums would have been a little under $2,000 per year, the plan would have allowed ONE doctor visit per year (to a max of $125; above the max would be out of pocket)
For that $2,000 per year I would also get TWO nights in the hospital to a max of $2,000. Above the max would be out of pocket.
So, the bottom line is that for $2,000 I could possible get coverage to a max of $2,125. I don’t call that insurance. I call it giving my money away!
So, I chose to not take it; but, under the Obamacare laws I now have to buy this “insurance” or pay the federal fine. hmm, which is cheaper?