BloggeRhythms

By nothing more than coincidence, today’s theme turns out to concern numbers. Particularly relating to those for and against politician's, policies, and legislation.

 

An article this morning, by Senator Orrin Hatch, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee on FoxNews.com presents his opinion about the pending Supreme Court decision regarding King v. Burwell.

 

The senator states that regardless of how the case regarding the issuance of health insurance subsidies is decided, the Obama administration is “in violation of their own law,” and “the negative consequences for patients and taxpayers will continue absent thoughtful, patient-centered reform.”

 

For confirmation of his opinion, the senator writes, “The latest numbers don’t lie. Earlier this month, the administration announced proposed rate hikes of 10 percent or more for health insurance plans enrolling more than six million people in 41 states. This sizeable premium increase on top of prior hikes threatens the financial health of both American families and taxpayers generally, and is evidence that the health care law failed to hold up to the president’s key promise to lower costs.”

 

While the numbers are enlightening as to how the tax is considerably more costly to many than promised, the statistics also deliver another message that’s far more important. Yet, those opposed to the president’s health care tax don’t ever discuss it. Including the senator himself, in his article this morning. However, the costs versus the benefits are astronomical.

 

In that regard, the senator wrote that the health insurance plans are, “enrolling more than six million people in 41 states.” Thus, if his numbers accurate, it means that whereas the US population was 318.9 million as of 2014, those 6 million enrollees amount to only .0188 of the entire population. And in reverse, the billions spent to date don’t help the other 99.98% citizens an iota, while raising taxes on all those who actually pay them.

 

In other words, as has often been mentioned here before, all the talk, speeches, time spent, dollars wasted, and thousands of man hours have been focused on an issue actually affecting a group without health coverage that, size-wise, doesn’t even make a dent in the total population.

 

Which means that, if government got out of the way and asked private enterpriser’s to solve the problem in an open market for them, the program would likely not only run at a profit, but far more customers would probably sign up for it.

 

A reader, freethinker0101, offered a simple solution confirming the point, as follows:

 

“If you want to make health insurance more affordable, than you need to do two things first and foremost.

 

1) Sell insurance across state lines.

2) decrease the patent time for new drugs

 

Doing these two things will increase completion between health insurance companies causing prices to drop, and it will make generic drugs available faster so people don't have high drug costs. After these are done we can move on to other areas like tort reform.”

 

Issue two concern’s the president’s attending the annual congressional baseball game at Nationals Park in Washington last night. His objective was to personally lobby House Minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, and other Democrats on the pending Trade Promotion Authority bill.

 

Then today, he visited Democrats on Capitol Hill to deliver a final plea to them ahead of a showdown vote later today in the House

 

What’s most interesting about this situation is that according to news reports, so far,  just 21 of the House’s 188 Democrats have declared their support. Furthermore, only few think that number will climb much higher.

 

The concern for Democrats in this case, stems from opening the nation’s doors to imports, and foreigners, threatening US jobs, prices and wages. All of which are ordinarily critical to the core constituents of the Democrat party. Which makes one wonder about the president's real goal. Especially since his only confirmed support at present is coming from big-business focused Republicans.

 

Therefore, even though much of the president’s political strategy seems to be based on “12 Rules for Radicals,” which suggests ways to keep opponents off balance, even the author Saul Alinsky, would likely have problems trying to figure this one out.

 

Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife. 

 

Kent Babb wrote an article @washingtonpost.com, titled, “She won’t back down. Or go away. Subheading: “Hillary Clinton’s unyielding mind-set could help her make history, if it doesn’t sabotage her again.”

 

While the piece itself is long, boring, childish, favorably contrived and written to put Bill’s wife in the most favorable light possible, the story itself isn’t what’s most telling about her current image with the public.

 

Following the story, 583 reader comments were listed. And although not all of them were read by this writer, almost every one seen was negative toward Bill's spouse. And, furthermore, the negativity and mistrust among readers relates all the way back to her college days, the Rose law firm, and Hillarycare, continuing on to include more recent issues. Such as, Benghazi, Libya, the Clinton Foundation extortion's and her lost emails. All serving as examples of ineptitude or selfishness which certainly won't disappear from the voting public's mind this time around.

 

Which leads to the question once again: Mayor Bloomberg, are you reading this?

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios