Expecting ObamaCare’s Collapse Is To Dangerously Live In Wonderland – Investors.com.
Entitlements: Give Democrats as much ObamaCare rope as they want, then sit back and watch them hang themselves. This advice from some pundits is the kind of thing that will make ObamaCare permanent.
The late, great Bob Bartley, longtime editor of the Wall Street Journal, writing in 1992 in his definitive account of the Reagan prosperity, “The Seven Fat Years,” issued a warning about government-controlled health care.
He called it “absolutely true that in the long term we will be unable to control government expenditure if the government keeps assuming new responsibilities.”
And Bartley cautioned: “When medical insurance coverage is mandated, experience shows, there is enormous pressure for it to cover more and more services. … If the government is going to assume or mandate universal health care, we will have to draw a line somewhere. … If we cannot do this, medical care will grow into a limitless entitlement, defeating any attempt to hold the line on spending and taxes.”
A limitless entitlement. It’s so believable, which is why the government shutdown is worth the fight. Unfortunately, many Republican’s don’t understand the limitless entitlement risk.
The Democrats and Progressives Obamacare end game is “limitless entitlement”. I don’t understand why the don’t give away their subsidies, which was the last deal the House offered to the Senate prior to the government shutdown. It would be “game over” and limitless entitlements here we come. What a small price to pay and an issue that can be addressed in the multitide of bills that will be require to fix the original bill, not to mention the continuous stream of bills over the years to implement the limitless entitlements.
Obviously they believe they don’t have to negotiate. I suspect they are probably right but really hope they turn out to be wrong.
