The Vice-President is simply emulating President Bush on syntax and logic.
For pure goofiness, it's difficult to top President Obama.
The President says (in effect) that excluding coverage for pre-existing conditions is some vast profit-enhancing conspiracy by insurance companies.
If you believe the President, then you also believe I should be able to buy life insurance for my father .. who died 16 years ago -- if not for insurance-company greed.
You decide: If we could buy health insurance after we need it, why would anybody buy it before they need it?
You decide: Is the President's statement any less wacky than the GOP Death Panelists?
The President also claims that insurance companies "cherry-pick" younger and healthier people. Have you wondered why the President (and virtuall all liberals) keep repeating this? As you'll see next, this as just wacky as their pre-existing conditions hoax.
First some history. A quarter century ago, prepaid HMOs provided stiff price competition to 3rd-party insurers, with group rates generally 25-30% cheaper.
Then Congress got involved.
Congressional Democrats destroyed the market by mandating "Community Rating" -- everyone pays the same premium. They never realized that Community Rating cannot work in a competitive market -- only in a govenment monopoly system. Apparently, the President still cannot grasp this simple concept.
The insurance companies did nothing different. The average 25-year-old still paid premiums 60-80% lower than the average 55-year old. For the same reason, safe drivers pay much less for auto insurance than reckless drivers.
What would you do? You're 25 years old, in an HMO. Every year, you compare plans and premiums offered by your employer. Leaving the HMO will reduce your premiums by 30%. Will you leave? If so, were you a victim of cherry-picking as the President insists, or a wise shopper?
What would you do? You're 55-years-old, in a traditional health insurance plan. Every year, you compare plans and premiums offered by your employer. Joining the HMO will reduce your premiums by 30%. Will you join the HMO? No Democrat calls this cherry-picking, because they never mention it at all. Why not? Are they stupid? Or doing a cover-up to hide their cherry-picking hoax?
The Republicans never said anything, and still don't. They knew HMOs would never again be a threat to their insurance-company contributors.
Democrats may have had a second reason. HMOs' if not sabotaged, would have been vastly superior -- and cheaper -- than the single-payer plan they have been chasing for 75 years.
Prepaid non-profit HMOs, member controlled, like Group Health Co-Op in Seattle, employ their own doctors on salary, and own their own clinics, hospitals and pharmacies. That means no claims processing overhead at all! Ever. (except for remote areas where they contract with local providers)
That also means signifiantly cheaper than any government plan could possibly to be. Democrats can't allow that, can they?
It also means something Republcans cannot allow -- significantly cheaper than third-party insurance companies.
For the past quarter century, this has been one those "bipartisan" deals where all the special interests get what they want -- from both parties -- and we get screwed.
Democrats now blame the free market for their own blunders -- blunders I'm guessing even you would not have made. And Republicans have obviously been defending something other than free markets, or you'd already know everthing here.
Finally, we know Doctors are increasingly refusing to take Medicare patients, and 45% would consider quitting or retiring entirely if Obama care expands the Medicare mentality to our entire healthcare system.
It's reasonable to presume Doctors would be more accepting of a Group Health approach -- even at a fixed salary. Why is that reasonable? Group Health was founded by doctors.
Who do you trust more, doctors or Congress?
If you've read this far, then you now know more about healthcare reform than either party in Congress ... and the President.
You also know something else: The Emperor has no clothes.
See more at www.PoliticallyHomeless.net, Placing Principle Above Partisanship
