More HealthCare Rubes
Last week I began a list of healthcare rubes – those who support the bill for fiscal, moral, and philosophical, reasons that cold, hard facts show the bill utterly fails to provide. Yesterday I added a couple of clueless Congressman to that list. Today, I add those of you who support the bill because, notwithstanding it’s other failings, you believe it will prevent insurance companies from asserting preexisting conditions as the reason for denying essential coverage to children.
See here, and here for a long, thorough breakdown of what Congress and the administration promised (before and after the bill passed), why those promises are false, and who confirms that they are false. With regard to who has confirmed that Obamacare’s promise to force insurance companies to provide full coverage to children regardless of preexisting conditions, JOM writes “[f]olks reassured by an appeal to authority will note that the AP has quotes from two Democrats supporting their interpretation.” LOL.
More persuasively, the articles points out that, due to actually reading the fucking bill and suffering through objective analysis of its provisions, Obamacare-fanatic Ezra Klein backed away from his previous full-fledged commitment to the Administration’s talking points, and the Old Gray Mare herself acknowledged that health insurance companies “do not have to provide one of the benefits that the president calls a centerpiece of the law: coverage for certain children with pre-existing conditions.”
At this point, you’re basically not a healthcare rube if you support the bill because you understand it is an intentional, manipulative leap left towards a centrally planned economy and the establishment of government’s authority to manage every area of our lives. To your dismay, however, you’re not a tough, Machiavellian sonofabitch either. You’re a moron because if the 20th century taught us anything it is that concentrating power in the State and centrally planning economies is an EPIC FAIL.
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