HolyCoast: Getting Your Health Insurance at the DMV
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Getting Your Health Insurance at the DMV

It's long been a joke that if you want to know that government-run health care will be like, just go to the DMV. Long lines, uncaring and incompetent providers...bureaucracy in action.

Well, the joke is about to become law:
The Senate Finance Committee healthcare reform bill approved this week provides that Americans will be able to enroll in healthcare plans at their local Department of Motor Vehicles.

“This is no joke,” pointed out an October 14 CNSNews.com report. “If this bill becomes law, it will be the duty of the U.S. secretary of health and human services or the state governments overseeing federally mandated health-insurance exchanges to ensure that you can get your health insurance at the DMV. You also will be able to get it at Social Security offices, hospitals, schools and ‘other offices’ the government will name later.”

Specifically, on page 19 of the “plain English” text of the reform legislation, the Secretary or the states would “enable consumers to enroll in health care plans in local hospitals, schools, Departments of Motor Vehicles, local Social Security offices, and any other offices designated by the state.”

The DMV, of all places, would become a dispenser of health insurance. Not automobile insurance, which might at least be somewhat logical given the legal requirement for liability coverage, but health insurance.
Maybe you'll be able to buy personalized health insurance cards with cutesy ID numbers like: IMSOSCREWED or IDRATHERDIE.

4 comments:

Sam :L. said...

They'll hold you to that last one.

Nightingale said...

I'm a nurse. No matter what they do to our health system, I know enough to navigate with more safety. The rest of you poor saps really are screwed...for the lack of a better description.

Yet no matter how much I talk to people about this topic, their Marxist-trained minds just can't or won't grasp the reality. The god of this world has blinded their eyes.

Goofy Dick said...

Getting your health care at the DMV is like getting your Driver's License from Penny's Catalog or in a Box of Cracker Jacks, what a joke. I have never seen such a bunch of incompetent employees as most of those working in the DMV offices. The waiting lines are horrendous and when you have an appointment they cannot find your name when you show up.

Goofy Dick said...

Nightingale, you are so right. I will laugh with glee when those who voted for Obama have to receive their health care, but heaven help the rest of us who have seen through his big smile and empty oratory.