The lies are so thick - "It's free!"
It is a legitimate problem. However, the answer isn't to put more money in the insurance companies' pockets - healthcare should not be prohibitively expensive as it is now.
There's 300 million people in the USA - and the claim is 47 million don't have health insurance/ coverage. That of course means 253 million people DO have it.
Even if we accept the 47 million inflated figure, that's still over 5 to 1 of the HAVES vs the have nots.
So "prohibitively expensive" is only at most, 1/6th of the population, and we are told, many of those are young people who CHOOSE to not buy insurance because they are active and healthy - so an even smaller percentage than 1/6th , the inflated number, and those not buying because of personal choice (very, very important concerning one's own body we are told! One would think that could apply here too, not just to that other "choice", but I guess it's al in whose baby you are goring...) makes the number even smaller.
1/7th or 1/8th. One eighth of 100% is about 12%, and it is likely a LOT of those are illegal aliens in this nation because they chose to be criminals and illegally invade the USA. Furthermore, of that small percentage, BY LAW they are covered in emergency rooms, another government mandate, that caused great expense, that now is used as an excuse to "fix" the "crisis".
Healthcare will get more and more expensive as the years go by, wondruous machines, wondruous drugs, and amazing treatments that far surpass blood sucking leeches, plaster casts and an aspirin and call the Doc in the morning, are now commonplace, becoming more common, and getting very, very expensive,a dn will continue to skyrocket in price, complexity, and AMAZING scientific breakthrough, unless of course....that can be stalled, or reversed, to "save expenses".
The Insurance Companies take the premiums and INVEST them in the world markets, and make more often than not, very good returns over the long run, doubling, quadrupling, and exponentially increasing the economy and the money they have collected to HELP PAY for those that use the insurance.
The government, as you should well know, is "not allowed" and often "does not do it because it's all spent" - invest in the markets... for instance the 4 trillon that SHOULD be in the Social Security lockbox ( and building to 8,10, or 15 trillion since 1982) is merely an empty, now worthless, stack of IOU's, which of course, must be "reimbursed" by people PAYING TAXES AGAIN to "cover it" since the government already has been spending the SS TRUST FUND surplus since 1982 - and every year, without fail since then, they have spent every last dime and then some collected from everyone's paycheck under the SS tax everyone's check program. Since 1982 there has been extra every single year above and beyond SS payments, but the government SPENT IT all anyway in the "general fund", and borrowed more, and more and more, and more.
So, perhaps the dream of the government paying for it all, lowering costs ( I guess if we go back to plaster casts and an aspirin we can lower costs - or maybe we'll just have nothing new and go back 15-25 years and not to Dark Ages treatments), and having it cost ZERO tax dollars, is just such a fairy tale and a fantasy that noone should believe it.
When USA persons get breast enhancement, botox treatments(Kerry), hair plugs (Biden), butt suction, and who knows how many facelifts and wrinkle removals, sports injury repairs, personal trainers, vitamin and "pump up" mixtures, electromobile wheelchairs, electric shower and tub seats, electric van lifts, disabled access at every business in the USA, Prosthetic limbs that are almost becoming "undetectable", that all counts toward "our extraordinary" healthcare costs. Don't forget "seeing the baby in the womb" specialties, special diets, Dietiicians - and on and on and on - many, many, many LUXURIES....
Well just picture Nancy Pelosi @ 300lbs with gray hair and a Helen Thomas pruneface - (of course SHE won't be on "single payer option" - no,only the BEST for the big shot govey- for LIFE, forever, with ZERO co-pay)
I'd like to know how far down the markets will crash if Insurance Co's are destroyed, and how the government will MULTIPLY the $ collected from premiums "in the markets" they just half destroyed. Maybe they'ell bailout all the Insurance Companies they "take over" ? Keep those 5 million or how many ever people employed doing... what exactly ?
Are we going to have 110 million dollar and 30 million dollar CEO's of the government plans, like Howard Raines and Jamie Gorelick of Fannie and Freddie ? Is some party comrade going to get FILTHY RICH on the government programs ?
Do you believe even for one second , in this current political money whore machine in DC, that people won't be raking in hundreds of mililon and billions of the 3 trillion dollars per year we are talking about ? We already KNOW this government pays off banksters and wall street and the biggest bigshots in the entire world of big business - even taking some over with crooked hacks and breaking the bankruptcy laws Congress put in place !
That was a "crisis".
Now it's the next "crisis" - healthcare...
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They won't come out and say it will cost TRILLIONS, they claim, including you know whom, it will cost NOTHING - no debt, no deficit, "it's paid for" as the slang goes in DC. There' just isn't a chance at all that is true - the moon would sooner turn into a blue cheese butterfly and flap it's way out of the solar system.
The reason there isn't a chance I'd support the criminal con artists is just that, they are lying, filthy, criminal con artists - and of course they have a golden heart of egalitarian love, that's why they spew thier lies to all our faces.
No, the reason of course is, they can STEAL trillions, have a power trip, claim they "love and care for everyone" - then line their pockets, their friends and families pockets, and their big business, banksters, and other FOREIGNER buddies pockets to beat the band, fly all over the USa and the world to do it, and endlessly praise THEMSELVES for being so "kind" as they live a jetset life of power and prestige and every little minion of the masses bowing and kissing their comrade ring and awaiting their prescence, and deferring to their piehole's spew...
No way.
Not now.
Not tomorrow.
Not until THEY are all gone, and someone speaks and the TRUTH comes out of their yaps, instead of the con artist criminal spew we hear now.