Friday - October 17, 2008

Gosh what a non-surprise

Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched. Gov. Linda Lingle’s administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan.

“People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free,” said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. “I don’t believe that was the intent of the program.”

Hawaii lawmakers approved the health plan in 2007 as a way to ensure every child can get basic medical help. The Keiki (child) Care program aimed to cover every child from birth to 18 years old who didn’t already have health insurance — mostly immigrants and members of lower-income families.  It costs the state about $50,000 per month, or $25.50 per child — an amount that was more than matched by HMSA.  State health officials argued that most of the children enrolled in the universal child care program previously had private health insurance, indicating that it was helping those who didn’t need it.

Like I said the other day, it’s a basic cost-benefit analysis thing. Why pay for something the government will give you for “free”? And this is exactly what is going to happen under Obama’s health care plan. Faced with a choice between paying for some or all of their employee’s health insurance, or letting the government pay for it, no employer in their right mind will hesitate. Exactly the same thing will happen, only on a scale orders of magnitude greater. And we’ll have instant Socialized Medicine, in which the government becomes a near monopoly in the health insurance business. And that’s not Free Market Capitalism. That’s not Representative Democracy. That’s pure Socialism. Hell, it’s Communism; the government will be taking over a private sector business. It will not be possible to write laws, which pass the Constitutional “equal treatment” test, which force employers that presently provide health benefits to continue to do so, while giving other employees who do not have this benefit the ability to sign up to receive government health insurance for free. Or even for reduced cost. Once the government becomes an insurance agency any citizen can sign up, and will sign up, and the whole health insurance industry edifice crumbles to dust over night.

Your solution to the “health care crisis” is fundamentally flawed, Senator Government. It will not work, period.

Posted by Drew458     on 10/17/2008 at 12:01 PM   
Filed Under: • Democrats-Liberals-Moonbat Leftists • Health-Medicine •  
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