Thursday - August 20, 2009

It has to be worth a try

Liberal Lies About National Health Care: First In a Series
by Ann Coulter
08/19/2009

(1) National health care will punish the insurance companies.

You want to punish insurance companies? Make them compete.

a federal law allows states to ban interstate commerce in health insurance

It’s the famous liberal two-step: First screw something up, then claim that it’s screwed up because there’s not enough government oversight (it’s the free market run wild!), and then step in and really screw it up in the name of “reform.”

You could fix 90 percent of the problems with health insurance by ending the federal law allowing states to ban health insurance sales across state lines.

Ok, one downside to this idea might be that every insurance company doing business in a state will need to have claims adjusters/inspectors in that state - hey, wait a minute, that’s home and car insurance. Thanks to HIPPA, for health insurance all we have to do is fill out the same forms and submit them. Never mind. But you would have to have a big meeting of all the insurance companies from all the states so that they could all get on the same page and all use the same insurance codes. Ok, that ought to take about a week I’d think. The codes are just numbers, no big deal. So who really cares if “123” or “8611” means “removed paperclip from kid’s ear”? But, as anyone in the health provider industry knows, there are a huge number of insurance codes.

The cost to the government of opening up the market is just about nothing. The cost would be born by the insurance companies. But they could easily eat it, because they would all be able to expand their business areas 50 times over, and that means an opportunity for millions more customers. That kind of gain is worth the investment.

So I agree with her. As long as certain standards are kept, then let the free market solve this “crisis”. And setting basic minimal standards is all the legitimate involvement that any level of government has, MAYBE, in the insurance industry. And it is very easy to argue that no government has any business being involved AT ALL.

But read her essay. She has more solutions, and points out more lies from the left. Which everyone else is doing, along with flaws in the bill. Here is yet another news source/blog that points some of those flaws out:

Note that this list only extends to page 498, and the bill is over 1000 pages.

Pg 22 of the Health Care Bill mandates that the Govt. will audit the books of all employers that self insure

Pg 30 Sec 123 of HC bill - Establishes a Govt. committee that decides what treatments/benefits you get

Pg 29 lines 4-16 - Rationing of health care

Pg 42 - The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your benefits for you. You have no choice

PG 50 Section 152 - Health Care will be provided to all non US citizens, illegal or otherwise

Pg 58 - Govt. will have real-time access to individuals’ finances & a National ID Health card will be issued

Pg 59 lines 21-24 - Govt. will have direct access to your bank accounts for elective funds transfer

PG 65 Sec 164 - This is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in community orgs (ACORN).

Pg 72 Lines 8-14 - Govt. is creating an Health Care Exchange to bring private plans under Govt. control.

PG 84 Sec 203 - Govt. mandates all benefit pkgs. for private plans be in the Govt. health care exchange
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PG 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3 - Govt. provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death

PG 427 Lines 15-24 - Govt. mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt. has a say in how your life ends
...
PG 429 Lines 10-12 “Advance care consultation” may include an order for end of life plans.

Pg 429 Lines 13-25 - The Govt. will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order.

PG 430 Lines 11-15 - The Govt. will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life

[gosh, no Death Panel at all in the last 5 listed items! Stupid Palin!]

These lists go on an on. And they are everywhere. Maybe, just maybe, people are waking up to the awareness that Hillary Care II / ObamaCare is a totalitarian takeover. And it must not pass.

Posted by Drew458     on 08/20/2009 at 10:52 AM   
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