Over the last few days, I’ve been meaning to mention an item from July 9, but kept getting sidetracked by other news. On that date, House Speaker, John Boehner, addressed the incumbent’s move to delay the employer mandate in his health care tax for at least a year.
I found Speaker Boehner’s comments on his website just now, which were: “I’m glad the president recognized that his health care law is not good for our economy. Because of ObamaCare, millions of full-time workers can only find part-time work. Health care costs are going through the roof. I think Senator Baucus had it right, this is a train wreck. This is what happens when you ram through a gigantic bill that no one has ever read.
But just delaying the employer mandate, frankly, isn’t good enough. Today we sent a letter to the president asking him to justify delaying the employer mandate while leaving in place the mandate on individuals and families. Because if businesses can get relief from ObamaCare, the rest of America ought to be able to get relief as well.”
Now, my guess about the speaker’s reaction is that he made a very big mistake.
I think that because although its quite clear that Democrats are by far the worst legislators, poorest leaders, and know absolutely nothing about international affairs, the economy, or anything having to do with business at all…they’re very adept at politics itself.
Even Slick Willie knew that the U.S. runs on its economy, and without financial strength the nation would fall apart at the seams, just like its doing now. And that’s why he left Republican Alan Greenspan at the top of the Fed. Because so long as Greenspan kept the economy humming, Willie could do just about anything else he pleased, and nobody really cared about how bad he was at everything else. You can even ask Monica Lewinsky about that one.
So, now we have another example of Dem political thinking. Because I’m quite certain that by now even the densest of those dunces clearly understands what a disaster their health care tax is. Which is why the incumbent’s giving businesses a break, whereas he knows that implementation will force unemployment even further through the roof. And if that happens, they’ll lose the coming mid-term elections in the biggest landslide of all time.
However, since businesses have been given a reprieve but individuals have not, it still exposes Dem’s to huge losses at the polls.
In a situation like that, I’d think the Republicans would take advantage of the opening now provided to them and campaign hard against the tax, educating the public to the fullest possible extent about the rising costs, invasions of privacy, ruination of the health care system, rationing services and reduction of private practitioners, just to cite a few huge holes in the abysmally flawed plan.
But what did the Republicans do instead?
Why, they decided to demand that individuals get a year’s relief too, which will give the Dem’s a free ride until the mid-terms elections are over and done, saving them from significant losses of seats. And to me, it just doesn’t get any dumber than that.
Now, just one last thought.
I hear and read disputes all the time about the health care tax and its costs. Dyed-in the-wool Dem Kool Ade drinkers generally claim that the plan's well thought out and that overall, due to efficiencies, regulations and skilled management, costs will stay the same or perhaps, even reduce.
Those on the other side usually employ graphs and charts, formulae, data and specific evidence establishing that costs must inevitably rise.
However, my approach is much simpler than that .
According to the CBO’s May report there are currently 55 million "Uninsured Nonelderly People." So, my question is, how do you add these folks to the system at lower cost, when health care pricing for government coverage is already too low now? And the answer is, of course, you simply cannot because its impossible financially, structurally, mathematically or by any other analytical measure you choose.
That’s it for today folks.
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