Democratic health care kabuki [View All]

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.correntewire.com/epic_fail_health_care_reform

Let me start with the biggest lie of the health care reform Kabuki. Obama, to this day, keeps saying that if people like their present insurance they can keep it. We know very well that as a practical consequence of this legislation, should it pass, workers with quality plans are likely to see them replaced with inferior ones. That is because the taxes on those plans will force employers to trade down. As it is now, providing your workers with quality insurance is breaking the bank at many businesses. Otherwise responsible employers are being forced to trade down without punitive taxes, add that to the mix and the money simply won't be there.

Health insurance parasites don't like those plans. That is why they pushed the "Cadillac plan" talking point.

Meanwhile thousands of workers will be forced to buy junk insurance plans that they cannot afford. As The Young Turks point out, people won't like the mandate. It is electoral suicide. Only our willfully blind Versailles political culture fails to comprehend how radioactive the mandate is going to be.

Prosperous workers won't like taxes on their plans to pay for other people's plans. Workers will not like being forced to buy plans, even if they qualify for subsidies.

And people will not get care. The high copays will keep people away from the doctors office, they will have spent their money on the health insurance premium. This is already beginning to happen. The mandates will make this worse.


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