Kudos to The Wall Street Journal for their ongoing analysis of ObamaCare. Today they highlight the fact that the “health choices czar” will obliterate health care choice in America. Thanks Nancy, thanks Harry, thanks Obama.
Both [the Senate and the House] bills blow up the individual and small-business insurance markets, to be replaced with new “exchanges” in which people can buy heavily subsidized coverage and insurers will be told what rates they can charge consumers and what benefits they must cover. The Senate would create 50 exchanges and leave the regulation to state insurance commissioners, who would have to follow minimum (or rather, maximum) standards. The House prefers one national exchange and a new federal regulator called the Health Choices Administration.
The sole purpose of this office is to obliterate health choices: What really will be universal about “universal coverage” is that all consumers will have to buy essentially one standard product that Washington decides is best. Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a flavor of what she expected of the new health choices commissioner when she said at a recent press conference that insurance companies “will be crying out for a public option.”
The irony is that the same Democrats who have spent years opposing the regulatory competition that would come from allowing interstate insurance sales are now suddenly fine with national policies. As long as they’re the ones running the show.
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In other words, state taxpayers would be responsible for backstopping the consequences of mistakes made in Washington. It’s like creating federal deposit insurance and setting interest rates and then saying states have to clean up failed banks.
After their year of ObamaCare cheerleading, it’s tempting to let insurers and their shareholders deal with the consequences of their misguided political calculations. But the real losers will be patients, and at this point probably the best that can be hoped is that Democrats will destroy as little as possible.
What a disaster! We’re now at a point where we’re hoping the politicians destroy as little as possible. After observing this totalitarian gang in DC for the past year, I’m not holding out much hope.
I have to wonder with all that has transpired in the last year how many Obama voters are still comfortable with their choice. I used to see a hundred cars a day sporting Obama bumper stickers but they seem to have evaporated just lately. I can’t say I would blame them for lying when asked who they voted for. Who wants to stand up as a supporter of the administration that killed America. I guess there is still hope this suicidal compilation of convoluted legislation will fail. I mean aliens could abduct the Senate.
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Even in my very liberal enclave, I have noticed the decrease in Obama bumper stickers, too. Interesting
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Old folks and registered republicans will be denied treatment. They’re as bad as Stalin.
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What if they are old AND registered Republican?
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