It should come as no surprise to my readers that the Pelosi Obamacare Health plan has now spiraled to the dizzying cost of $3 TRILLION dollars over 10 years (snick).  I forecast back August that the health care plan would get to 4 trillion d….

I told you this is a damned communist takeover.
I told you the numbers dont match reality..

Hell this is the latest assumption
which assumes nothing at all will go
WRONG..

MORONS..

Problem is, is Barry “honest”.

What happens if those employers decide to drop that excellent coverage because it is more economically feasible for them to stay in business if the government insurance plan picks up the tab? Will the government plan offer the best care…or will a bureaucratic panel decide that covering that child for who knows how long is just not a wise rationing of resources?

Honestly, these people do not think through their one-size-fits-all solutions.

Kill the bill. The federal government has no business in the health-insurance business, especially in demanding mandates and determining level of care or coverage.

One clown from MA (from MA, where carrying insurance is mandated?!?!!) told the sad tale of a mother who goes to bed, worrying that her child’s health care will not be covered. Do these congresscritters audition on Oprah before they speak on the House floor?

Get ready for the Ezekiel Emanuel Jubilee
Hurrah! Hurrah!
He’ll give Herr Obama three times three
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The Doctor of Life and Death degree is ready now
For Hemlock Pelosi to place upon Herr Obama’s Godly brow
And they will both feel so happy and gay
When Pallbearers carry Grandma and Grandpa to the funeral home

The amounts no longer matter because we will never be paying back the money printed for the bill. All we are really talking about is the when, where and how the default takes place

But for pretend purposes whatever the consensus number arrived at, triple it to have a more realist idea of the real cost.

I am for a public option. I am not for a large government-run bill such as being offered by EITHER the house or the senate.

It’s unworkable.

AnninCA on November 7, 2009 at 2:20 PM

Ann, a public option is a large government run program. That is what it is.

Technically, if you refuse to buy health insurance, the Federal Government can take away your right to vote.

Think about that: THEY CAN TAKE AWAY YOUR VOTING RIGHTS FOR NOT BUYING GOVERNMENT APPROVED HEALTH INSURANCE!!!

Join the fun!

I am for a public option. I am not for a large government-run bill such as being offered by EITHER the house or the senate.

It’s unworkable.

AnninCA on November 7, 2009 at 2:20 PM

The Blue Cross family of insurance companies are non-profits and they service over 1/3 of Americans. What would a government run non-profit be any different from Blue Cross in doing? Is there a difference between a non-profit and a government run company? If so, what is the difference?

It’s amazing that throughout this whole debate there has been nary a mention of the fact that our health insurance system is already rife with non-profits. The idea that the government owned non-profit would be anything different (when the Traitor-in-Chief went out of his way to claim that the new Fannie Med would follow all the same laws and rules that normal insurance companies have to) is just insane in the extreme.

Please detail any differences between a non-profit insurance company (or any of the many existing co-ops around) and a government run Fannie Med.

Then you can explain the advantage in trashing our Constitution and destroying the limited government that this nation is based on and without which this nation shall no longer exist.

BTW, you can kiss good-bye to medical advancement with the government’s heavy hand moving in to control health care. We saw a glimpse of this with Shrillary’s asinine vacination industry destruction in the small section of health care whe was able to destroy in her ’93 jihad against America:

Hillary’s Vaccine Shortage

By The Wall Street Journal August 15, 2003

Everyone knows America’s vaccine industry is in serious trouble, with an ever dwindling number of producers and recent severe vaccine shortages. What everyone also should know is that the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine has now pinned much of the blame on Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Well, not in so many words. The panel of doctors and economists issuing a report on vaccines last week was too polite to mention the former First Lady by name. But they identify as a fundamental cause of the problem the fact that the government purchases 55% of the childhood vaccine market at forced discount prices. The result has been “declining financial incentives to develop and produce vaccines.”

The root of this government role goes back to August 1993, when Congress passed Mrs. Clinton’s Vaccines for Children program. A dream of Hillary’s friends at the Children’s Defense Fund, her vaccines plan was to use federal power to ensure universal immunization. So the government agreed to purchase a third of the national vaccine supply (the Clintons had pushed for 100%) at a forced discount of half price, then distribute it to doctors to deliver to the poor and the un- and under-insured.

The result is a cautionary tale for anyone who favors national health care. Already very high in 1993, childhood vaccination rates barely budged. A General Accounting Office report at the time noted that “vaccines are already free” for the truly needy through programs like Medicaid. Meanwhile, however, the Hillary project dealt the vaccine industry another financial body blow.

Thirty years ago, the Institute report notes, 25 companies produced vaccines for the U.S. market. Today only five remain, and a number of critical shots have only one producer. Recent years have brought shortages of numerous vaccines, including those for whooping cough, diphtheria and chicken pox.

It’s also interesting how this has not been a topic of discussion as we have shortages in both swine flu vaccine, even as the geniuses in the feral government have declared this to be a national emergency, and regular flu vaccine, as well.

American health care costs more because we fund all the R+D for everyone. If we stop funding it, the advancement stops, because no one else has the profits in their health care systems to build such industries, infrastructures, supply systems, procedures, …

I am so furious right now. Our country/money/freedom is being STOLEN by the criminally insane Pelosi and Obama.

Schadenfreude on November 7, 2009 at 2:11 PM

Actually, I haven’t changed my position in months on this issue.

I couldn’t really tell where the bills were going to end up, so maybe you got that idea from some of the general discussions.

But I’ve had my mind made up on public option for months. I am for a public option. I am not for a large government-run bill such as being offered by EITHER the house or the senate.

It’s unworkable.