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From the CBS transcript of President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress:
… And that’s why under my plan, individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance — just as most states require you to carry auto insurance.
Excuse me, but some states require that people who choose to buy a vehicle, and choose to operate that vehicle on the public roadways buy liability insurance or post a liability bond to protect other users of those roadways in the event of an accident.
It isn’t a great analogy for what is being proposed in the personal mandate, because it has already been decided by the “powers that be” that the real analogy and solution can not be mentioned.
There are two insurance programs that are mandated by the Federal government that almost everyone is enrolled in automatically, and, surprise, one of them is a health insurance program. If he had said the apparently dreaded word “Medicare” in this context, someone might have said “what in hell are we doing creating a whole new freaking bureaucracy and screwing around, when all we have to do is open Medicare”, and that would, apparently be “terrible”.
If you don’t have the required time in the system to qualify for Medicare, there is a rate structure in place, and people do buy into Medicare after they reach age 65. Nothing needs to be created, just open Medicare and you have your “public option” up and running. People can buy Medicare coverage, just like any other health insurance, and the market can decide what happens to the other health insurance companies.
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dude! did you not get the memo? we can’t open medicare to everyone, we’re trying to shut it down! or at least mine it for $$$ to shore up social security and bail out insurance companies.
.-= last blog ..I get mail =-.
They really are blatant about this crap.
Hopefully the progressives in the House will figure out is time to be the “aggressives”, because no one seems to respect “nice” any more.
civility! above all, we must haz civility!
nice is all well and good, and actually i used to love reading miss manners’ advice column for her suggestions on how to nice-and-politely tell someone to go to hell. maybe we should get her to give a few lessons to congress on how to get stuff done.
.-= last blog ..Irony deficiency, bumper sticker edition =-.
Maybe if we had a few brawls like the Koreans, the pace would pick up a little. Perhaps it’s time to bring back dueling, at least you wouldn’t be bored while they messed with your life.
If they don’t censure Wilson, I say it’s open season. Let the games begin.