Why do republicans, who claim to value freedom, want a law that forces everyone to buy corporate insurance?
Why do republicans believe that the IRS should be in charge of health care?
Why do republicans believe that health corporations can be trusted, when we have just learned that finance corporations can't be trusted?
All the insurance plans that the republicans and the tea baggers want have one thing in common - forcing everyone to buy health insurance.
It will probably be bad health insurance with a low payout and high deductibles, but if you dont buy it, you will be fined and possibly imprisoned, and the IRS will be in charge of liening you and harrassing you until you pay up.
This will be a massive government enforced windfall to the health insurance corporations - the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT wil be enforcing the collection of their profits.
Why do republicans want this? Why do they want the IRS in charge of health insurance? Why do they think that forcing people to buy policies from the same health insurance companies that are hiking costs and denying coverage is the route to freedom?
They wiggle out of the horrifying implications of this new gigantic federal money-collecting system (to funnel money the the health insurance corprations) by saying "provide supplemental funding for poor people". So what, the idea is that the federal government has to create a gigantic new beauracracy to monitor all the poor people? To adminster "poverty" tests and decide wether or not you are poor enough to get your health care paid for? Then to funnel HUGE amounts of "poor supplements" straight from our tax dollars into the health corporation bank accounts?
Won't that be MORE EXPENSIVE than just having a single payer system that can negoatiate the lowest costs?
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http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS159181+08-Sep-2009+PRN20090908
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Citing the 300,000
Pennsylvanians on the state's waiting list for subsidized health insurance
coverage, state Insurance Commissioner Joel Ario today urged the U.S. Congress
to enact a set of core health insurance reforms that will give Pennsylvania
and other states tools needed to fix the deep-seated problems with the current
health care system.
"Lost in the din of the recent town hall meetings was the fact that many
Pennsylvanians are losing coverage and a much larger number face unfair
limitations on coverage and spiraling costs," said Ario. "Governor Rendell has
been outspoken in saying that the health care system is broken and, as his
Insurance Commissioner, I want to emphasize that there are some common sense
solutions that offer a way out of the current morass, where peripheral issues
get more play than the consensus reforms that are embedded in every major
reform bill now pending.
"Three essential reforms enjoyed bipartisan support as Congress developed
legislation last spring. First, end pre-existing condition exclusions and
other discrimination based on health status, so that everyone can access
coverage. Second, require everyone to purchase health insurance, so that
insurance works like it is supposed to work in spreading costs across large
risk pools. Third, provide reasonable subsidies so that coverage is affordable
for everyone.
"These three reforms build on each other to create a fair and efficient
system," Ario added. "We cannot cover everyone if insurance companies are free
to exclude people with health problems. But it is not practical to require
insurance companies to cover everyone if people can jump in and out of
coverage as they need it. And it is not fair to require low-income citizens to
buy coverage if they can not afford it.
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Well, maybe it will provide lots of new jobs
Clearly we will need a TON of new health insurance cops to enforce the republican giveaway to the health insurance corporations.
So maybe that's what all those white working class people holding up the "Obama is Hitler" signs are hoping for - that they wil be on the short list to get fine government jobs as health insurance police?
Do they understand that the republicans want to force them to buy health insurance, and that they probably won't pass the poverty tests, so they will have to pay out of pocket, when the corporations "outsource" their jobs to mexico?
And that before they get rejected from the poverty subsidy, they will have to fill out a zillion forms and expose every detail of their lives to the new poverty-testing federal health bureacracy? So not only are they humiliated and recorded on the government databases, they will still be richer than all the colored people, so will be at the end of the line to get their health insurance.
But hey, some of them might become health cops, which will be a cushy government job with the good insurance.
$3800 fine for those lacking health insurance says Gang of 6
"Americans who don't get health insurance once the system is overhauled would be fined up to $3,800 under a proposal that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as Democratic leaders cast doubt on prospects for creating a government-run insurance plan."
Fines for those lacking health insurance - from msnbc
So this is the republican idea - a health insurance police state.