Politics always means gathering up a band of warriors and fighting for power. You sweep away the injustices of the old regime, and then – ten to one – your fundamental transformation makes the losers pay.
That, we learn, from Obamacare guru Jonathan Gruber talking with Chuck Todd, is what Obamacare is all about, after you’ve stripped away the bodyguard of lies. Make the folks who have benefited from life’s lottery pay!
The only way to end that discriminatory system is to bring everyone into the system and pay one fair price. That means that the genetic winners, the lottery winners who’ve been paying an artificially low price because of this discrimination now will have to pay more in return.
I have never understood why young Americans – the ones who apparently overwhelmingly voted for Mr. Obama in 2008 and 2012 – have so enthusiasticly supported the health care plan that made things “affordable” on their backs? It took a whole group of people who traditionally didn’t have health insurance at all, and is making them pay A LOT of money out of pocket for a product they don’t really even want as part of a plan they don’t benefit from at all.
On NPR a couple days ago they had a report on All Things Considered that featured a bunch of under-25s that (now that they are officially being forced to buy health insurance) are just finally coming to the realization that they are being forced to pay for something they don’t want, all so they can subsidize others who need health care and can’t pay for it. Strange…all of that love for “reforming” the system, and as soon as they get what they wanted they realize don’t like it because it’s coming out of THEIR (probably pretty meager) paychecks.
Everyone loves a plan that doesn’t cost them anything. Middle Class folks love a plan that hikes taxes on the rich and doesn’t touch them; who wouldn’t want to support something like that (that is, until they work hard for several years to become “rich” and then finally realize they are being penalized for that hard work). I don’t know how so many young Americans could completely miss the fact that they were being sold out by their beloved representatives that they gleefully helped elect.
“The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government, they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get and promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten, that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of an advance auction of the sale of stolen goods.”
You obviously do not know many people in that age group.
I work with a few and believe me…they are mostly clueless on the details of anything Obama does or wants to do.
Many raced out to vote for the black guy because it was hip or cool and that was about it. Ask almost anyone under 30 about any details of Obamacare, Fast & Furious or Benghazi and you will get a blank stare.
The ones that know anything are spoon-fed their views by watching Jon Stewart and have what they “know” totally ass-backwards.
Obama got put in power by clueless and they KNEW their voters/supporters were clueless.
I am a 20 something and fancy myself not clueless. FWIW I didn’t vote for Obama and I get into arguments with liberals all the time over his policy decisions. Don’t lump all of us into that libtard camp.
Obviously…except for the fact that I am in a job where I exclusively work with new college graduates, 21 to 24 or so. 10s of dozens of them at a time, all day, every day.
Am I missing something? In most cases those 20-somethings haven’t made the big bucks yet (the “success” that usually comes with age) so therefore ain’t making $90K a year. That means a SUBSIDY to some degree for them, right?
The issue I hear most is that they did not have, or want to have, any private health insurance at all. They were paying zero…and are now forced to go buy something. Subsidized or not, that’s going to be a lot greater than “zero”.
