Mar 25 2010
Now its law! Everyone will be insured!
Liberal thinkers put way too much faith in the word of law. All law does is allow the government to act if you don’t do something the law requires. So yes, it may be against the law to not have health insurance, but the penalties for breaking this law are just monetary fines. We’re basically fining people who don’t have the money to pay for health care in the first place. Those who can’t pay either insurance premiums or penalties will remain uninsured, and we the taxpayer still get to foot the bill.
The only difference now is that taxpayers get to pay for insurance that 30 million people won’t or can’t pay for. In the meantime, private insurers pass on the extra costs of insuring people (imposed by the restrictions of the new law) to their customers — raising premiums — which causes people to drop their insurance as it becomes more expensive.
The economy sucks, and the government wants to make you insure yourself against health calamities. But of course! If you die, you can’t pay taxes! We need those taxpayers to shore up our tenuous hold on a AAA credit rating! Then again, there is always the death tax…but the government gets more money out of you if you stay alive.
I personally was a victim of the current crappy economy. Let me tell you, when I was unemployed, the LAST thing I was worrying about was health care. Why? I didn’t have a job! I’m sure the 30 million able-bodied people without a job right now aren’t worried about their health; they are worried about their next paycheck. I was one of those people who could neither pay for premiums nor pay penalties for not having insurance. The new law would have just tried to squeeze blood out of a turnip with me. And I am not an ER-freeloader.
Wouldn’t I just take advantage of the government version of health insurance? Sure! When I got a job, would I get better coverage? Probably, but if you are paying twice for the same thing, fiscally responsible people want to eliminate extra, non-necessary expenses. Like the pesky private insurers who charge you after you pay the government for it’s version of health insurance. Why pay again for something you are already paying for?
Will this get everyone sucking on the government tit? Eventually, but not immediately. After all, a few generations had to go by before Republicans called Social Security something that was not to be touched. Social Security is an entitlement program! Imagine that! Republicans fighting for an entitlement program! Never would have happened fifty years ago…now everyone thinks it’s a right.
Liberals know this is how you get away with socialism, and now that they have health care locked up, all they have to do is wait. Because repealing a law is much harder than passing it in the first place. And conservatives will have their hands full getting rid of this one.
