AMERICA-Where Are You?

“Maybe when national universal health care fails, we’ll be able to go international. Then interplanetary — then interstellar! Why should I pay for my gall bladder surgery when some Venusian could? Eighty-five percent of Americans are happy with their health care, but Democrats have a plan to make it worse for more money. As a bonus, national health care will add trillions of dollars to the national debt, and your insurance rates will skyrocket. Democrats are being utterly disingenuous to say that you won’t have to leave your current plan under national health care. Maybe, but it won’t be your choice: Your employer will be making that decision for you. Recall that one of the big selling points of national health care is that it is supposed to reduce costs for American businesses. The only way national health care will make American companies ‘more competitive’ is if they dump their employees into the public health care system. It’s so weird! We expected X number of people to show up for health care and instead 75X showed up! Yeah, just like every other government program in the history of the world. Ten years from now, we’ll be talking about cost overruns of $6 trillion — but by then, national health care will be an untouchable ‘third rail’ of politics, just as Medicare is now. (Ironically, injuries sustained from actually touching the third rail won’t be covered under ObamaCare.) As with Medicare, voters will be terrified to go back to even the wisp of a free market system we have now, afraid that they’ll never be able to get health insurance without the government providing it. Having been dragged unwillingly into the government plan, how will a 58-year-old be able to leave the public system and get insurance on the free market? … The only solution will be for the government to keep running up gigantic deficits and raising taxes on ‘the rich,’ which, in turn, will stifle job creation and economic growth in a phenomenon known to economists as ‘the Carter years.’ In addition to forcing Americans into dealing with surly government workers in order to obtain medical care, sooner or later, there’s no free lunch.” –columnist Ann Coulter

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