“A nation can survive fools, even ambitious ones. But it cannot survive treason from within.”
— Cicero
Here’s how the con works.
Get the media and the public focused on sequestration, which accounts for pennies, and then quietly get Health and Human Services—Orwellian Newspeak—to mandate 700 pages of Obamacare regulations.
This is what happened last Friday.
Of course, the lapdog press didn’t notice because the weekend was coming up and they’re already gone.
Hence, the Friday news dump so beloved by the Obama regime.
And besides, no one in the media is actually going to read all these regulations. Even if one is inclined to read these 700 pages, it’s like trying to decipher ancient Hittite.
The rules and regulations, clauses and subclauses, are Byzantine loops, closed systems designed to trap the American public in a top-down system that will regulate every breath you take, including your final breath — which, when Obamacare is fully implemented, will be the decision of the state.
But don’t worry. Obamacare will pay for abortions — with your tax dollars — because according to progressive ideology, murdering infants in the womb is a human right.
Like in the socialist states of Europe, the rich, who can afford private medical care, will bypass Obamacare.
The poor and the middle class will find themselves trapped in an amoral system from which there is no escape.
All private health insurance will be annihilated. In its place will be just another cold, inefficient federal and state entitlement — think the DMV — manned by unfeeling, angry bureaucrats whose only goal (like a teacher’s union) is not to serve the public but to increase its budget and power. And of course, like all Ponzi schemes, Obamacare will collapse under its own weight, forever in need of more and more tax dollars.
Obamacare will become a state within a state: a rogue, lawless entity answerable to no one but itself.
Sequestration is kid stuff.
Obamacare, a deeply immoral program modeled on ruinous, inhuman, Soviet state planning, is the real issue.
And that’s what we should focus on: defunding Obamacare.
Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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The private insurance option will be gone. If the GOP ever gets control again, it could pass legislation allowing national high deductible plans which are not subject to state regulation. The only option will be the cash and “retainer” style medical practices. Watch for the statists to try to ban private practice. That is already proposed in Massachusetts, making participation in the state plan a condition of license in the state. That, of course, will subject doctors to the rules and mandates of the politicians. The health insurance companies didn’t want to be in the insurance business anyway. Health insurance is a loser. Most company plans are self insured with the insurance company only doing administration. That is why they supported Obamacare. Anthem Blue Cross even raised rates during the debate to provide talking points for the Democrats.
The medical societies are also supporting it because the officers are all hoping for jobs in the administrative organizations. The big internal medicine societies have changed the ethics rules and now support what they call “parsimonious care.” Guess what that means. Sarah Palin guessed it some time ago.
Obama touted Mayo Clinic as a model. About six months later, the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix announced it was no longer accepting Medicare patients. Quietly, of course. Now, he is touting The Cleveland Clinic. It’s about time for them to make a similar announcement.
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A couple weeks ago, I was changing in the locker room where I work out when I overheard a couple of women complaining about how they’d better do their best to stay healthy, because God help you with the cost if you became ill. I joked with them that the new health care plan was “Don’t get sick.”
They laughed, but I doubt they knew I stole the line from (if I remember right) Alan Grayson, who is a Dem member of Congress. He was giving a scare-presentation a few years back on his view of the Republican’s health care plan. The first part was “Don’t get sick.” The second was “If you do get sick, die quickly.”
Personally, I think that’s going to be the new regime under Obamacare, given enough time. Don’t get sick. If you do, and especially if you are old or disabled or too poor to pay extra for good care… well, die quickly and stop being such a burden on the system.
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I have no faith in politicians repealing this monster. It will only fail when it crumbles under it’s own weight of rules and fees that can’t be sustained.
Unfortunately, politicians will keep this thing alive for decades after it’s dead and we will have to live with the stinking rotting corpse. Cable pundits like to make fun of Michelle Bachman but she is a rare politician I would trust to defund Obamacare. Other Republicans like Boehner are too chicken to wage a guerrilla war against another entitlement we can’t afford.
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Johnny:
The Republican establishment is less than useless. They proved that when they refused to block Hagel. Karen and I have long been supporters of Michelle Bachmann. We also like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. And of course Allan West. They are the future of the party.
Obamacare is an obvious national disaster.
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” We also like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. And of course Allan West. They are the future of the party.” Quite right Robert. The democrats like to say they are the party of the young, but who do they have, old people, old ideas, and old ways. This is why they are losing in the local and state levels big time. Their best candidate in 16 Hillary (in her 70s’). Be optimistic. Oh yes, their most potent weapon the national pres is slowly but surely burning it’s credibility and relevance to the ground.
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The problem with Obamacare, now that is ensconced in the system, will be repealing it. Federal legislators will not want to repeal it for the same reasons Justice Scalia noted that the Senate voted 98-0 to keep the Federal Oversight provision of the Voting Rights Act. No member of the Senate or House will want to be perceived as “evil” or “mean” by trying to take away the “free health care” of the “poor” and put their healthcare fate back in the hands of “big health” and “big pharma.”
Don’t get me wrong: I would love to see this monstrosity abolished. But the realist in me doubts the efficacy of Congressional Republicans (especially the establishment-minded leadership) to act in the best interests of the nation. Rather, they’re only going to act in the best interest of their next re-election campaign.
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