Please take pity on this health care orphan
How to be a hypocrite in five easy steps:
- pass a health takeover bill that blocks job creation.
- add a clause to that bill that counts 25-year-olds as “children” for health insurance purposes.
- when someone tries to repeal the job-killing legislation, claim that the 17 million young adults who would have benefited from those jobs will “lose” health insurance if the legislation is ended.
- ????
- cronyism!
It’s like the guy who killed his parents asking the courts to take pity on him because he’s an orphan. This is why government programs are so bloated. They do something that’s obviously going to have a bad effect, and when the bad effect happens they use it to justify keeping the government program. Yes, of course if you create job-killing legislation, the people who are most affected will be those just entering the job market. That’s not a justification for keeping your bad legislation!
- Court filing claims 17 million young adults would lose coverage without health law: Julian Pecquet
- “The law has already allowed 2.5 million young people to gain coverage thanks to a provision that requires health plans to allow them to remain on their parents' family plans through age 25. That coverage could also be in peril if the law is struck down.” (Memeorandum thread)
More government programs
- Growth does not pay for itself
- Growth that doesn’t pay for itself is cancerous growth. It isn’t the growth of population that gets more expensive, but the expanding grasp of government.
- Why don’t taxes go down when population goes up?
- The left says that government can better take advantage of economies of scale. So why don’t they lower taxes when population rises?
- The plexiglass highway
- Government bureaucracies can cause anything to fail, even progress.
- The Bureaucracy Event Horizon
- Government bureaucracy is the ultimate broken window.
More ObamaCare
- Community health acts to improve Obamacare
- Democrats now want to talk about how to improve Obamacare. Here’s how to do it.
- Democrat Chris Murphy: Obamacare is “the end of health care”
- From the mouths of hypocrites, comes wisdom. It’s almost biblical.
- Health insurance reform? What health insurance reform?
- The Truth About Republicans: they don’t want to repeal Obamacare.
- Economies of scale and government-run health care
- Economies of scale only produce lower prices when people are allowed a choice of service providers—including the choice to forego the service. Government-run programs do not benefit from economies of scale—in fact, scaling up will cause increased prices when the industry is run by the government.
- A tale of two negotiators
- If you want to see how Republicans in Congress fail to pass successful reforms, compare the House Obamacare “repeal” with the White House’s budget.
- 16 more pages with the topic ObamaCare, and other related pages
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