"Zero Tolerance" for Political or Economic Dissent
Gangster Government Stifles Criticism of Obamacare
"The threat to use government regulation to destroy or harm someone's business because they disagree with government officials is thuggery. Like the Obama administration's transfer of money from Chrysler bondholders to its political allies in the United Auto Workers, it is a form of gangster government."
The Obama Administration is prepared to try and silence critics of the new health care law any way they can. Solely due to the burdens of this new law, health insurance companies have had to raise prices, which means higher costs for health care for us. But that isn't politically convenient for the Democrats in power... who lied and promised a fantasy that the legislation would lower costs, particularly right now before an election.
So, they are now trying to do damage control, for the entirely predictable negative effects of their "victory". It now becomes a blame game. They don't want to take responsibility for the pain and suffering they've caused and are going to ramp up causing as this behemoth continues to crush people. They want us to blame the insurance companies who have been forced to have to alter their business plans as a result of the changes they made.
They want to limit the insurance companies abilities to raise rates to a business destroying 1-2% when the costs of doing business are going up by a constricting 7-9% in some cases. So they want to inflict artificial price caps on the market, which in economic terms ALWAYS leads to rationing, because they don't like the realities of what they caused. Maybe this is their effort to completely gut and destroy the private insurance industry and move us towards their ultimate goal of completely government run single payer health care... maybe they just don't understand or want to understand economic reality... who knows?
Up here in MA, our private insurers have been forced to continually ramp up premiums, and just this year our dear Governor tried to stop that from happening by fiat - something the companies had to take to fight tooth and nail so that they did not have to eat themselves alive under the burden of our pilot program and go on to contribute even more to our economic woes and unemployment problems.
The Democrats in Washington now seem prepared to do the same. Rather than admit they messed up, they're going to try and enforce an untenable position. The insurance companies have to destroy themselves by complying with their dictate to hold to 1-2% increases (and remember this is only newly admitted, when it was sold to the public it was going to bend the cost curve and lower costs) which will force them to run at a loss under the new realities of the health care law, something no business can do for that long. Or the companies will be forcibly excluded from participating in the insurance exchanges. This is how it goes when you stop letting the private market place efficiently adjust to new market equilibriums - there's no other option but force.
No, you won't be allowed to decide if you want to jump ship to a new insurer who may have lower costs, or to determine exactly how much and what kinds of insurance you need or want; and let the myriad decisions of people like us figure out the best options as some inefficient insurers go bust and other efficient ones prosper ensuring they offer a better service. Instead, the elites in Washington have decided they know how to run things for you better. You will buy insurance or you will be punitively taxed. Insurance companies will eat themselves alive for the cause, or they will be driven into the ground anyway.
Under this plan, there is no alternative but eventual total government control of your health care, it will just sneak up on you so you settle into the reality slowly and don't make a fuss. Obama bypassed the nomination process for Dr. Berwick for Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the man who adores the ailing British socialized single payer system. Now, his Health and Human Services Secretary is giving us yet another taste of what is to come.
She won't tolerate anyone disagreeing with the Democrats fanciful vision of their health care law, or so help her she'll drive them out of business. But don't worry, you'll love this law in time, we've been reassured by the Democratic leadership that after people get a chance to see what's in the bill and see it in action, it's going to be awesome. On this track, it's only a matter of time before you will be forced to have to love this law, because while dissent against the Republicans was the highest form of patriotism, dissent against the Democrats will be met with "zero tolerance".
"The threat to use government regulation to destroy or harm someone's business because they disagree with government officials is thuggery. Like the Obama administration's transfer of money from Chrysler bondholders to its political allies in the United Auto Workers, it is a form of gangster government."
The Obama Administration is prepared to try and silence critics of the new health care law any way they can. Solely due to the burdens of this new law, health insurance companies have had to raise prices, which means higher costs for health care for us. But that isn't politically convenient for the Democrats in power... who lied and promised a fantasy that the legislation would lower costs, particularly right now before an election.
So, they are now trying to do damage control, for the entirely predictable negative effects of their "victory". It now becomes a blame game. They don't want to take responsibility for the pain and suffering they've caused and are going to ramp up causing as this behemoth continues to crush people. They want us to blame the insurance companies who have been forced to have to alter their business plans as a result of the changes they made.
They want to limit the insurance companies abilities to raise rates to a business destroying 1-2% when the costs of doing business are going up by a constricting 7-9% in some cases. So they want to inflict artificial price caps on the market, which in economic terms ALWAYS leads to rationing, because they don't like the realities of what they caused. Maybe this is their effort to completely gut and destroy the private insurance industry and move us towards their ultimate goal of completely government run single payer health care... maybe they just don't understand or want to understand economic reality... who knows?
Up here in MA, our private insurers have been forced to continually ramp up premiums, and just this year our dear Governor tried to stop that from happening by fiat - something the companies had to take to fight tooth and nail so that they did not have to eat themselves alive under the burden of our pilot program and go on to contribute even more to our economic woes and unemployment problems.
The Democrats in Washington now seem prepared to do the same. Rather than admit they messed up, they're going to try and enforce an untenable position. The insurance companies have to destroy themselves by complying with their dictate to hold to 1-2% increases (and remember this is only newly admitted, when it was sold to the public it was going to bend the cost curve and lower costs) which will force them to run at a loss under the new realities of the health care law, something no business can do for that long. Or the companies will be forcibly excluded from participating in the insurance exchanges. This is how it goes when you stop letting the private market place efficiently adjust to new market equilibriums - there's no other option but force.
No, you won't be allowed to decide if you want to jump ship to a new insurer who may have lower costs, or to determine exactly how much and what kinds of insurance you need or want; and let the myriad decisions of people like us figure out the best options as some inefficient insurers go bust and other efficient ones prosper ensuring they offer a better service. Instead, the elites in Washington have decided they know how to run things for you better. You will buy insurance or you will be punitively taxed. Insurance companies will eat themselves alive for the cause, or they will be driven into the ground anyway.
Under this plan, there is no alternative but eventual total government control of your health care, it will just sneak up on you so you settle into the reality slowly and don't make a fuss. Obama bypassed the nomination process for Dr. Berwick for Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the man who adores the ailing British socialized single payer system. Now, his Health and Human Services Secretary is giving us yet another taste of what is to come.
She won't tolerate anyone disagreeing with the Democrats fanciful vision of their health care law, or so help her she'll drive them out of business. But don't worry, you'll love this law in time, we've been reassured by the Democratic leadership that after people get a chance to see what's in the bill and see it in action, it's going to be awesome. On this track, it's only a matter of time before you will be forced to have to love this law, because while dissent against the Republicans was the highest form of patriotism, dissent against the Democrats will be met with "zero tolerance".
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