“Why this “health reform expensive” meme?
posted at 2:16 am on June 20, 2009 by Laura Curtis
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This exchange at Marc Ambinders omits an important fact.
@egocrata asks: “Why this “health reform expensive” meme? The feds pay more, insurance ind. get less, consumers pay MUCH less. Savings for all.”
@marcambinder: Over 15 yrs, yes. Short term requires $1 tril in “start up” money at least. And not clear that consumers will pay much less…they’ll just get better care.
Whether they’ll get better care is debatable, at best. What is clear is that consumers will not pay “much less” regardless of how much more “the feds” pay because we are the feds.
The federal government doesn’t have a nickel that it did not first confiscate from us. Learn it. Know it. Live it.
And watch this video, via Bill Whittle.
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VIVA LA REAGAN REVOLUCION!!
eaglescout1998 on June 20, 2009 at 2:31 AM
Now is the time that we must go back to the Reagan era in order to move forward and past this deplorable state of the Obama era.
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Dear Rush,Mark Levin & all conservative republicans
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Please make this our mantra from this day forward. We have history on our side. We must seize by taking hold of this moment now. The American people can sense the shift in momentum of these news events and discussion on the current issues that have recently occurred. The evaluation and strategic posture of the Obama administration is heading our great country down the road to a soft tyranny. Perhaps the HEALH CARE is our defining moment to turn back the socialist tide of anti-capitalism. A see change has already occurred in congress w/ the passing of the resolution to support the opposition to the powers at be in Iran. Ronald Reagan if alive, would have been out front leading us now for the cause of freedom around the world rather apologizing to our non-allies and snubbing our true allies for freedom. Sorry got a little long winded there. He!!, what would any of us do for freedom. Just ask our forefather or better yet, read their book the “U.S. Constitution.” I emplore you read it yourself. Cover to cover it is a good read, quite the page turner.
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Thanks for the post Laura.
Americannodash on June 20, 2009 at 6:13 AM
Good job Laura – this is the money quote!
Why don’t people realize, when they talk about “the government” paying for something, it’s us!
This is why road signs announcing stimulus projects are so annoying – we paid for them – and they are a wasteful announcement of our beneficent government deigning to give us some of our own money back.
massrighty on June 20, 2009 at 9:29 AM
Encouraging employers to pay for health care was a mistake.
Moving this from employers to government won’t solve the mistake, it will only make things worse.
The eventual breakdown will involve doctors starting to accept ca$h again…. but there will be a lot of needless illness, disease, and death first…
Mew
acat on June 20, 2009 at 4:49 PM
Did you guys catch this video at Reason? Just as in Reagan’s day, this legislation is being dishonestly pushed due to a non-crisis. There is no uninsured crisis.
Laura on June 20, 2009 at 5:15 PM