Monday, July 06, 2009
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The Democrat Health Care "Competition" Mirage
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Posted by:
Kevin Glass at
5:18 PM
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Will Wilkinson has a poignant piece on health care reform today highlighting that the "public plan" is either needless or dangerous. [T]he point of the public plan is what? To put competitive pressure on private plan providers, thereby controlling costs? Sure, because when you listen to left-leaning speakers talk about health-care reform in front of left-leaning audiences, they just won’t shut up about how important it is to make sure consumers have more choices in the health plan market and about all the great ideas for making private-sector health plans more competitive! ...Keep an eye out for the following dynamic in the debate.
(1) Republicans push hard on the idea that a public option is a “trojan horse” or “back door” to single-payer.
(2) Democrats loudly deny with exasperated, eye-rolling annoyance that the public option has anything whatsoever to do with backing into single-payer.
(3) Republicans say, Well, okay. Then I guess you won’t mind structuring the public plan in a way that will help ensure that it competes with, but can’t use implicit and explicit government subsidies to crowd out, private plans.
(4) Democrats freak out about a “neutered” or “watered-down” public plan. It just so happens, they say, that in order to work – to improve the quality of care and keep costs from rising – a government-run plan has to be set up in exactly the way you’d want to set it up if you were trying to crowd out the rest of the market. But we aren’t trying to do that!!!
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with our healthcare system until it's broken. |
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system so you don't matter either. |
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on Public Option...Huffington Post. President Obama would rather have honest insurers than government run healthcare. |
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services. Read the Huffington Post, your friends over there are going crazy because they know that Obama is breaking yet another campaign promise.
The last I heard New Orleans Mayor, Ray Nagin and former Louisiana Governor, Kathleen Blanco are both Democrats. They were both in office when Hurricane Katrina blew through Louisiana.
After Hurricane Katrina, Bobby Jindal, a Republican was elected governor. So I don't know what you're ranting and raving about.
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This bill will pass with a Public Option without you. So much the better.
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Too stupid to know any better. Another waste of money. For what? It spends 1.6 trillion dollars on a system that they say is "already" to expensive and doesn't cover all those without insurance. Typical Dimicrat! |
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RiffRaff is really a moron. Katrina became the disaster it was because of the inept handling by Nagin and Blanco. They did not bother to even try to evacuate people using their own plan. Blanco was offered federal help before the hurricane hit and declined. Nagin left buses sitting in the parking lot that should have been used to evacuate people, he chose not to bother. Nagin also decided that the stadium should only be stocked with minimal supplies as he did not want people to get comfortable there. States are to be responsible for there citizens. LA had two people who did not have a clue what to and worse yet did not seem to care. Had they even followed their own evacuation plan many lives would have been saved. No one can predict what a hurricane will do in the end but most politicians plan for the worst and hope for the best. Nagin and Blanco set themselves up high and dry and let the people of LA basically fend for themselves. I still wonder how that fell on Bush. |
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so I called my mother and told her to switch from Fox to CNN to watch Wolf Blitzer.
Wolf Blitzer was interviewing an African American that had the audacity to say, "God Bless America and God Bless President George W. Bush"
From that point on things went downhill...
Journalists don't understand that the public can read body language and Blitzer's body told me that he had been sucker punched.
We're not supposed to know that only Gov. Blanco, a Democrat can call out the National Guard, not the POTUS. And we're not supposed to know that Blanco had fallen apart and was crying.
Mayor Ray Nagin, a Democrat looked like he had stepped out of GQ magazine...he wanted to look good for the cameras and he did.
During the storm and its aftermath Nagin was on dry land in the French Quarter. Nagin's cops had broken into a Cadillac dealership stole the cars and were headed for Texas...
Meanwhile, (4) hurricanes within 30 days hit Florida. Our Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican called out the National Guard doing what needed to be done.
The mayor of Miami went ballistic however when the media showed people on line getting free water, but didn't show the grocery store across the street.
Across the street people were shopping for supplies while the freeloaders waited on line.
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