Is selling Obamacare as one huge free lunch a surprise? With about 1/2 the population not paying taxes, who wouldn’t want someone else to pay for their healthcare? It’s “free” to them.
Democrats have been selling health care as one huge free lunch in which everyone gets better insurance while paying less. But the policy facts simply don’t add up, and Democrats are attacking WellPoint because they don’t want anyone to understand what their health-care schemes will mean in practice. Democrats know that if the public is given the facts and the time to consider them, Americans might demand that Democrats stop pushing the country off this cliff and start all over.
No worry that Boulderites would change their minds. Some specifics of the study…
Meanwhile, a 40-year-old husband and wife with two kids would see their premiums jump by 122%—to $737 from $332—while a small business with eight employees in Franklin County would see premiums climb by 86%. It’s true that the family or the individual might qualify for subsidies if their incomes are low enough, but the business wouldn’t qualify under the Senate Finance bill WellPoint examined. And even if there are subsidies, the new costs the bill creates don’t vaporize. They’re merely transferred to taxpayers nationwide—or financed with deficits, which will be financed eventually with higher taxes.
It seems the government just borrows money and everything will be “ok”. One of these days it won’t, and that day will be accelerated by the health care reform proposals coming from the Democrats.
