Keith D. Milby :: blog

…to be a Dog

A dog is a rat is a doctor is a vet

One of the first things we need to do is define terms:

Medical Insurance, protection against catastrophic loss.

Health Care, as best I can figure it. The redistribution of premiums from those that don’t need health care, to those that do. This sounds like socialism. It is socialism.

From each, according to his means, to each, according to his needs. Fails miserably every time it is tried. Eventually.

Medical Insurance is affordable, Health Care, just like Social Security, is unsustainable.

The statist establishment would love a single-payer health-care system like Canada’s if it were politically achievable. Barack Obama said that if we were starting from scratch, single payer is what he’d back. But, thankfully, Americans are still libertarian enough to cringe at turning the medical system entirely over to government.

So with single payer out of reach, the fans of government control have grabbed for second best: the “public option.” This would be government-run health insurance that would “compete” with private insurance. (It wouldn’t compete fairly because it could do something no private firm can do: milk the captive taxpayers.) But the public option is proving hard to get. Even some Democrats are nervous about it.

Health Care Competition: If the policy elite really wanted to cut costs, they would deregulate medicine. - Reason Magazine

VA Medical System in Shambles, Veterans Groups Say - Political News - FOXNews.com

If this keeps up, we just might defeat this Health Care boondoggle after all.

Hot Air: Dems retreating on healthcare

Few things government does well. Most things, those things it has no buisness doing in the first place, it does poorly. To add Universal Health Care to the list would be one of those things it would do poorly.

Think about what it does. Think about what you have to go through when you have to interact with your government for services. Do you really want this same government managing your heath care?

Maggie Gallagher sheds some light on the real deal in Truth About Nationalized Health Care

How hard can it be to offer a universal health care plan? “John Edwards had a plan, I had a plan, Chris Dodd had a plan, Dennis Kucinich had a plan, Bill Richardson had a plan. Because we’re Democrats …” Clinton said.

But Obama, in his Bob the Builder campaign designed to appeal to the toddler in every American, offers a plan that is all gain and no pain: subsidized health insurance for anyone who wants to buy it, whenever they want to buy it. More money, more choice, no cost. Gee, what’s not to like?

Nothing, except that Hillary is correct. Obamacare can’t possibly work, because it doesn’t make sense to buy insurance when you are young and healthy if you are guaranteed access anyway when you are older and sicker.

When a politician offers to do something for me, I always ask how much freedom is it going to cost me?

One more thing, deny this fact and you are only fooling yourself.

Here’s the other dirty little secret: National health insurance is going to cost Brandy and other taxpayers a whole lot more than either Hillary or Obama admits. Just ask Gov. Deval Patrick in Massachusetts, where just two years into operation, the state’s mandatory health insurance plan is already costing $400 million more than budgeted.