The costs, consequences, and untruths (Being told one could keep their health insurance when it was known that wasn't the case.) of Obamacare are being exposed daily. It's not a pretty picture. Larry Kudlow hits the nail on the head
in this column. It comes down to one of freedom and the ability of people to flourish and care for themselves and their families.
May I ask this question? Why is it that Americans don't have the
freedom to choose their own health insurance? I just don't get it. Why
must the liberal nanny state make decisions for us? We can make them
ourselves, thank you very much. It's like choosing a car, buying a home
or investing in a stock. We can handle it.
So why must the government tell me and everyone else what we can and cannot buy?
...Here's what else I don't want: As a 60-something, relatively healthy
person, I don't want lactation and maternity services, abortion
services, speech therapy, mammograms, fertility treatments or Viagra. I
don't want it. So why should I have to tear up my existing health-care
plan, and then buy a plan with far more expensive premiums and
deductibles, and with services I don't need or want?
On top of all of the above, Obamacare attempts to defy reality. It's unsustainable.
Of course, there are other structural problems to Obamacare that
are both unfair and unaffordable. Mainly, younger healthy people are not
going to subsidize older sicker folks. We should take care of the
latter with transparent government subsidies, and not by trying to
redistribute resources (again) from the young to the old.
Or then there's the Medicaid entitlement. It's already out of control
and close to bankruptcy. But in the early days of Obamacare, Medicaid
sign-ups are exploding, all while sign-ups for private plans on the new
exchanges are minuscule.
Between the president's broken
promises, the millions of policy cancellations, the continued website
breakdowns and the unaffordable, unfair con game between the healthy
young and the sicker old, this Obamacare monster is well on its way to
collapsing of its own weight.
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