Government health care is an oxymoron

On Wednesday last week the article “It’s Not An Option” in Investor’s Business Daily was startling.

“It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal. When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help from the House Ways and Means Committee. It turns out we were right: The provision Govwould indeed outlaw individual private coverage.” The article explains that we would be allowed to keep our existing coverage, but we won’t be able to switch to another carrier if moving to another job. And because the government plan will be cheeper than most carriers, businesses will switch to the government plan anyway. By attrition we will all be moving to the government plan.

We were promised otherwise.

We were also promised that this would make health care more affordable.

What is ironic about this is that Medicare is going bankrupt. For years we have been anticipating the baby boomer crunch that would be overwhelming the system. How would we be able to pay for that influx on Medicare? So, the answer that we have come up with is increasing the number of people on government coverage!?! And indeed, the Congressional Budget Office warned last week of escalating costs. How will we pay for that when we haven’t figured out how to cover the cost of Medicare?

Well, of course, the tax payer will be paying for it in increased taxes. Or patients will be paying for it in rationed care. Maybe a combination of the two. How is this an improvement?

Call your representatives and let them know that this is unacceptable!