That the teleprompter-in-chief's is unwilling to commit to relying on his own health care plan for himself and his family and the fact that members of the compost pile atop Capitol Hill insist on exempting themselves from what they are striving to inflict on the rest of us should be enough to motivate all but the brain dead to do whatever is necessary to kill the monstrosity.
At best, government involvement -- irrespective of whether in health care or in health insurance -- would merely end any and all confidentiality of every citizens' private medical information. That information would be stored on government computers accessible by our political rulers and bureaucrats . . . and we know how good those folks are at keeping secrets and how reluctant they are to use anything available to them for their own purposes.
However, it gets far worse. The admitted costs are humongous . . . and they would be unknowable magnitudes greater than any current estimates. Look at the Post Office, Social Security, Medicare, the prescription drug program, etc., as examples of financially unsound government programs approaching insolvency. A current example is the "cash for clunkers'' program that was supposed to run until November but ran out of money and now needs a new infusion of taxpayer money after operating for just two weeks.
The most ominous aspect of Obama care is that it will need -- and is structured -- to ration care. It empowers government bureaucrats to determine whether the benefits of providing care exceed the costs of doing so . . . and if the recipient of any proposed care is elderly with a limited number of years to live, care will be denied as uneconomic as it is in other countries in which government is in control of the health care and/or health insurance system.
Denial of care initially will be denied by benign neglect, delaying its approval until the elderly patient obligingly shuffles off to the graveyard. The next step will be hospices that will speed up the dying process and encourage the elderly to "end their suffering" . . . and that will be followed with assisted suicides (which will be referred to as "death with dignity"). Mandatory euthanasia and death camps will not lag far behind.
Extended delays for necessary treatment and the inevitable destruction of private health insurance for all but the ruling political class and their favored oligarchs are less dramatic certain consequences of the proposals currently pending in both the House of Reprehensibles and the Sty but they certainly are among the reasons that the members of those bodies want no part of what they are fashioning for the rest of us. Also exempt will be the very rich -- people like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, George Soros -- who will be able to join members of the ruling class at elite medical centers that will be established at posh offshore locations to serve the plutocrats.
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