The (Insurance) Business of Government
First the government (local and federal) put onerous laws into place restricting the free exercise of business across state lines. No doubt some of these laws were due to the generous “donations” by insurance company interests to those who make laws. I think that’s called bribery. There has to be a reason why in many states – such as Alabama – where the number of health insurance providers is minimal and there are only a few that can qualify under their stringent laws. Not coincidentally, they have a virtual *expensive* monopoly in those states.
Then the government installed “mandates” without funding ways for the mandates to transpire, which has damaged the bottom line of insurance companies and state and local governments. As a result, we have high premiums, limited coverage, etc.
And so the answer is for the Federal Government to take over health care?!? They are already bankrupting Social Security, Freddie Mac, Fanny Mae, Medicare, and more, and somehow somebody expects them to “save” us from the insurance companies?
Someone please answer me this: What federal entitlement program has EVER come in at or below cost? Any? Tell me! Which one has ever been run smoothly? Hell, they can’t even get Swine Flu (excuse me – H1N1) vaccines right!
What makes anyone think that once they have eliminated the insurance companies that the government won’t do the same things that they are currently accusing the insurance companies of doing? They already deny coverage to individuals under Medicare, and there’s no recourse to those people. What makes you think they won’t do the same thing once they’re in charge of everyone’s care?
So the government wants to add “more competition” to the insurance market. Since when is government in the business of being in business competing against business? Government is there to, surprisingly enough, *govern* and not to be adversarial against its citizens. Why would they want to cripple 6% of their business taxpayer base? I don’t get it! (or maybe I do but just can’t believe it)
The free market is what has made us (until Bush/Obama) the financial powerhouse of the world. Our dollar is (was) the currency that the world could depend on, all because of our free market system. And now ObamaPelosiReidCare will turn us into still yet another financially second class country.
They will do by mandate what the terrorists tried to do by violence on 9/11.
