President Obama’s solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.
Way to incentivize productivity. This has got moral hazard written all over it. If you’re a progressive who believes everyone should have “free” healthcare can you at least admit the unintended consequences of such a law combined with the philosophy expressed by the Solicitor General could be bad for the future of our Nation?
Nah, what was I thinking?
Ya know, my income is a small percentage of what it used to be. Yet, I’ve struggled to make the insurance payments for our family as I deem it very important to have this type of protection against a medical “catastrophe”. Well, it happened, not to my wife or myself but to our daughter. Our insurance company has easily paid out over $100,000 in medical bills since November. Before this ordeal is over, it will most likely be in the $200,000 to $250,000 range.
To think I could be getting free healthcare from Obamacare. Yet I rebel and I’m proud of it. Screw Obamacare.
Added 6/3@09:27A
Glenn Reynolds says what I was thinking. Going Galt. (yeah, I know, he said it, I didn’t! 😉 )
