Yep. You’re pretty fucking stupid. Or I’m being wooshed. Too late to tell.
You’re really upset about long haul truckers being forced to buy insurance, then?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet/item/health-care-execs-get-huge-paychecks/make-it-rain/?om_rid=NHhWm0&om_mid=_BMYpXJB8R$Xarg&
Of course there are those who think execs deserve all they can steal from a system that is supposed to be providing heath care. The execs are jacking up your rates so they can get fabulously wealthy.
What ,you never heard of Social security? Why do you claim that is not a mandate?
It’s quite the revelation that all Catholics, Mormons and other folks who have large families are either illegals or welfare mothers and that all their children are ugly. Also, isn’t it against the rules now to tell other posters “fuck you very much”? Just sayin’.
That’s just silly. You can make changes that’ll make it more expensive - just have terrorists cause a smallpox epidemic. This country stopped vaccinating people in 1972, which leaves a huge precentage of the workforce completely exposed to the disease. Not only are people 40 and under a big part of the workforce, they’re also doing almost all of the childbearing too (only 2% of babies are born to women 40+), so that means a severe reduction in future generations to contribute to SOC & FICA too. Sure, the costs will eventually go down in the long term as the population dies out, but in the short term medicare would be a bigger burden per taxpayer, and no doubt obamacare would be too, since Obama has recently agreed that the mandate is a tax.
Unlikely hypotheticals aside, I’m sure there are even plausible ways to increase costs too.
I’m stupid? You are the one who voted for that fool in the White House. You are the ones who want to fuck up the best health care in the World. You are the imbecile who does not believe in personal responsibility (like buying your own fucking health care, while giving the rest of us the choice to buy or not.)
The more you let the government take care of you, the less freedom you have. I am sick and tired the last 20 years of losing my freedoms to protect myself from preceived harm.
You have no counter argument, except to being insulting. Well sir, have an argument and present it. You being an asshole makes me know that I am right.
Personal responsibility? You choose to skip buying insurance, get hit by a car, and accumulate $100,000 in medical bills you can’t afford. The cost gets passed on to me.
Why am I paying for your personal irresponsibility?
-Joe
I congratulate **Captain Midnight
** for his brilliant parody of right wing anti-HCR arguments. If he lives near New York, he should send this to Colbert to try to get on his writing staff. Let’s examine the humor.
Here he references the idiot Tea Partiers who stand up in meetings and demand that government keep its hands of Medicare. Saying that government mandates are government insurance, while actual government run insurance is not, is brilliant. Ignoring that we don’t have much of a choice about paying Medicare taxes - and thus purchasing a product, is pretty funny also. Bravo, sir!
And here, as true right wingers do, he contradicts his statement in paragraph 1 in paragraph 2. I do have to deduct a point or two for him using “welfare mother” instead of “welfare queen” - perhaps the intelligent person behind the parody is peeking through here.
This is a nice touch. He’s complaining about how the free market in medical schools is too expensive. He leaves it for the reader to see the obvious solution - government control of tuition - or perhaps government paying tuition to increase the supply. The subtle point here is that inside each right winger there is a Socialist trying to get out. The malpractice screed is mandatory, though the TV lawyer bit is a nice new addition to a hoary old rand.
Nice indication of how much of the right doesn’t even understand what insurance is, and nice ignoring the fact that the elderly have paid for Medicare all their lives. Plus a callout to the true conservatives, who we don’t see much of these days, who think medical costs got frozen sometime around 1935, and who are rich enough with good enough insurance to never actually look at a hospital bill. The obligatory racist slap at Mexicans goes without saying.
Another reference to the conservatives rosy view of the past, taken from watching movies where the worse impact of the Depression on the characters is having to look at Apple Annie. Maybe a subtle reference to Archie Bunker singing about wanting a man like Herbert Hoover again? I applaud the innovative “ugly children” insult. Don’t think about this or your mind will explode. Are responsible mothers with ugly children okay? How about irresponsible ones with beautiful children? Writing that teeters on the edge of total absurdity is difficult, and this is well done.
Half on half on this relatively weak ending. Implying that anyone getting wealthy is ever wrong is almost rational, and has no place in a tirade like this. Suffering because you now have access to affordable healthcare is a nice touch though. And it really should have been “socialist clown” don’t you think?
But overall, a nice job. Maybe Conservapedia, the Internet’s leading humor side, would take it.
To get an idea of how wildly off the funding estimates were for this whole thing, consider just the new high-risk plan. This is the temporary plan that is supposed to provide health care for high-risk people until 2014, when the new national high risk plan takes over. The upcoming mandate for individual care requires that pre-existing conditions be covered, so the government has to provide a plan that everyone can get into. It is grossly under-funded:
Health Care Brief: Pre-Existing Condition Program
So this program may have been funded to only about 1/3 the level required. In fact, no one really knows, because no one knows how many people will take advantage of the plan. But it’s clear that it’s going to be much more expensive than previously thought. And in 2014, these people all have to be transitioned out of this plan and into private plans or the new high-risk pool.
Many states already have high-risk pools that were intended to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions could find insurance. But they turned out to be so expensive that states had to raise premiums to the point where very few people actually even use them. Florida shut its high risk pool down years ago.
Now imagine what the cost structure looks like when everyone has to buy insurance and the government has to provide it. The government will have to fully subsidize many people who are very poor health risks.
Let’s put this in perspective - The health actuary says that if 375,000 people join this pool, it will cost about 15 billion dollars to stay funding through 2013. That’s about 5 billion dollars per year. According to the LA times, about 57 million Americans have pre-existing conditions. Now, obviously this doesn’t mean that insuring them will cost 760 billion dollars per year, but it does indicate that this will be very, very expensive.
We’re going to be seeing headlines about unexpected cost overruns and ‘tough choices’ for years to come.