The Yellow Brick Road to nowhere

Gallup is telling us that only 47% of America thinks providing health insurance is a government responsibility. So now, the President and his party are left with two roads that both lead down. One leads to dissolving this Sisyphus scheme and concentrating on jobs, the other is actually doing it disastrously, in a way that will please no one. Leftists are going to lose their jobs on Capitol Hill either way.

Sick of hearing the O-bots trumpeting about how the free lunch is free, when the government can’t give you enough swine flu vaccine, and fraud has tripled under the new administration? Wonder how the “government bailout” reflects on that Obama efficiency? Sick of hearing them spout off about the claims that the stimulus package has “created or saved” specific numbers of jobs posted on recovery.gov that are as greatly exaggerated as the early obituaries of Mark Twain?

With the current Democrat plans, if your health care plan changes anything, its deductible goes up, or costs are adjusted, you will automatically have to switch to a government plan, with a short grace period. If you buy your insurance yourself, you will have to change to a qualified plan immediately once anything about your plan changes. And changes take place every year in everyones health care choices. And remember, if you don’t like your health care, you “gotta” keep it.

The CBO has already laid out how much this will cost you:

If you make $44,000 a year, you will be legally obligated to pay %17 of your pretax income for premium copays and deductibles by going to the exchange and buying a plan. $7300 a year. If your household makes $102,000 a year, you will pay %20 of your pretax income for those premium copays in the government exchange, for a grand total of $20,500. Which is why 30 million of us will choose to pay the fines instead of getting insurance, which tops out at $750 in 2017.

Until we get sick that is. Or maybe not. Banning denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions has been a hallmark of the O-bots chanting. 82% favor the ban, we’re told in one poll by the Pew Center. But in an AP poll, when told that such a ban would probably cause most people to pay more for health insurance, that support drops to 43%.

Oh, well, that’ll work itself out because everyone will be required to have insurance. Really?

They like to tell you about the poll that says 67% agree that everyone should be required to have health insurance. What they DO NOT tell you is the same poll asks the question a different way. When asked about requiring everyone to carry insurance or face a federal penalty, 64% are OPPOSED. Specify jail time and the numbers drop into that “Elvis Lives” range. Nancy Pelosi, 5 Years or $15,000.

It’s nice to say it. It’s another thing to do it.

Now, if you’re still eager about getting in on that “subsidized public option”, you probably won’t. Maybe you’re making $50,000 a year and can’t afford out of pocket for health insurance. Too bad. Only certain low income people, the self employed and small businesses, will qualify. Mostly those who already qualify for subsidies, but don’t bother.

Costs for those with coverage could go up because people in poor health who’d been shut out of the insurance pool would now be included, and they would get medical care they could not access before. And if you do let these O-bots into your daily lives via their health care scheme:

Obama’s regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, wrote a book in 2008 in which he declared that the government “owns the rights to body parts of people who are dead or in certain hopeless conditions, and it can remove their organs without asking anyone’s permission.” So, after the death consultants authorized in Nancy Pelosi’s health care bill convince you to reject life-saving procedures, the organ-transplant team can remove your body’s organs immediately.

Obama’s science czar wrote in a college textbook that compulsory “green abortions” are an acceptable way to control population growth. We assume that what makes an abortion green is when the motive for the killing is population control to serve environmentalist dogma.

It’s unclear whether Democrats will be better off passing a bill or seeing one fail. In political discourse, it’s often assumed that there is some clear path to a favorable outcome. But sometimes both paths lead down. The question is how you got to that point or, more specifically, how Barack Obama and congressional Democratic leaders decided to make expensive health care legislation a No. 1 priority at a time when the nation was facing enervating unemployment, now at 10.2 percent and rising far higher than White House projections.

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