Forcing young people who don’t need health insurance for one.As I said earlier, it's not about the money. It's about control.The Census Bureau estimated that 36 million people are without health insurance — many of tehm could easily afford it but won’tt buy it.
Surely taxpayers could just set up a program for them, require them to have it, and charge them what they can pay — without having the federal government taking it over under some sort of Federal Expending Medicine Agency (FEMA) that will be run by the dim-witted nephew of a big campaign donor (he ran the polo club just fine).
John Fund of the Wall Street Journal ran down the list of the big losers in all this:
1. Young people. (The smallest risk group — and least expensive to insure — will pay.)
2. Small businesses.
3. 8 million holders of health-savings accounts. (Scrimp, save, lose in Obamamerica.)
4. Medicare Advantage.
According to advocates for nationalized health care, the uninsured cost hospitals $34 billion a year in uncompensated care. That’s less than $1,000 a year per person. Having the federal government simply reimburse those costs would drop the price of Obamacare from $1.6 trillion over 10 years to $340 billion over 10 years.
But the uninsured are 36 million (Census estimate) to 48 million (socialists estimate) strawmen.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Who Would Obamacare Hurt?
John Fund and Don Surber have the answer:
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Some of those who would be hurt were Obama's voters. They should have read the fine print.
It's not too late -- they should start reading it now.
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