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So we had a water-cooler conversation at work about the health care bill. These are good to have, occasionally. I can’t practice my skills at pretending I’m a “middle of the road” guy if I don’t know where the middle of the road is. And as of right now…your local water-cooler may vary…it seems to me the middle-of-the-road is here:
People are confusing “hope” with “faith.” The centrist position to be taken-up is that Obama’s health care bill will lower costs, because, well, it’s just gotta. To say confidence is shaky would be charitable toward that confidence. It’s like what Gagdad Bob said; science is using the facts to arrive at a conclusion, religion is tailoring the facts to fit the conclusion. So don’t go asking why they think it’ll work. It’s just gotta.
Obama says they’re all right about this, though. Or at least, if we don’t pass the bill, disaster shall ensue.
“If we don’t pass it, here’s the guarantee,” Obama said. “Your premiums will go up, your employers are going to load up more costs on you … Potentially they’re going to drop your coverage, because they just can’t afford an increase of 25 percent, 30 percent in terms of the costs of providing health care to employees each and every year.”
Uh oh. I’m not the first to point out this is exactly what He said about swindle-us.
Here is what I notice about this. To hear the President tell it, we are about to pass a rule that will bring costs down. In my lifetime, I’ve only seen two kinds of rules that bring costs down:
1. Rules that force one targeted demographic to provide a commodity to another targeted demographic, free of charge or at a reduced cost — an artificially redusted cost;
2. Rules that suspend or revoke other rules that existed before.
There is no third category.
So if you do have some of this faith, I guess you’re thinking we’re about to discover a third way to do it.
It doesn’t seem terribly likely I must say. Go through the decades in back of us, and go through the list of regulated commodities. Rental living space; gas; oil; labor; land; legal servics; health care; public education; water; precious metals.
Rules…especially rules signed into law by democrats…make prices go up. It can’t work any other way. It gets harder to provide something, that thing’s cost goes up. That’s how it works, folks.
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And if we do pass it, here’s the guarantee. Your taxes will go up. Your premiums may as well. And the quality of your care — what is available to you and its timeliness, will go down.
Bank on it.
On top of that, once we get to Obama et al ‘s goal of single-payer health care, it will be used as a lever to intrude more and more on our liberty. There will never be enough money for it. Every year there will be a crisis that needs more money to solve it — but the cause will never be the system itself, no, no. It will always be blamed on “greed” and “racism”. Always.
Bank on that, too.
- philmon | 12/17/2009 @ 07:49Can we just cut the crap and rename our country to Union of American Socialist Republics? That’s where we’re headed under Comrade Obama anyway. Why beat around the bush?
- cylarz | 12/17/2009 @ 19:31