If Utopiacare passes, a whole new cottage industry will emerge to game that system
This is something we talked about briefly in the Open Thread today, but perhaps it warrants a separate article of its own.
If Democrats in the Senate and House use procedural means to ram Utopiacare through, without ever bringing it to an actual vote, then it truly appears a new cottage industry will emerge, largely Internet-fueled, to game the ridiculous system the Left puts into place.
We have no idea what that will be, largely because Utopiacare itself is so nebulous and ill-defined, but we do know this: people who never thought much about their health coverage and what they were actually paying in premiums are suddenly paying a whole lot of attention to what they’ve got, afraid it’s all going to be taken away from them and redistributed to others.
The Left doesn’t seem to understand that adding 30 million new people to the healthcare system, as well as granting coverage to illegal aliens, will cripple it. Doctors and nurses won’t suddenly drop from the Motherships, ready to heal the sick, cure all diseases, and do their level best to conceal their true reptillian faces under cheap plastic masks. There will be nursing and doctor shortages in the years ahead (which means it’s probably really smart for anyone with tenuous employment to start thinking about a new career in medicine…because whatever happens, if even a few million more people get added to the system under whatever Congressional measure passes, the demand for medical professionals will only increase…and even the lowest-paid nurses make a decent living with good job security).
Whatever happens, it feels like there is a real grassroots network sprouting for people to stay informed…and to do whatever they can to help each other find the information they need to weather this current administration’s storms.
We have three more years of this nonsense to survive together.
It was Republicans and Independents who sat the 2008 election out that got us into this mess…saying, “Oh, another Carter won’t be THAT bad…and afterwards we’ll get a new Reagan and everything will be splendiferous. So, I’ll park my big old butt in the Barkolounger on Election Day because McCain’s not Republican enough. That’s what I’ll do, because I’ll show them!”.
Idiots.
There doesn’t seem to be a way to stop Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi from wrecking havoc on 1/6 of the US economy by bludgeoning the healthcare industry…but what we want to energize all of you to do is to start thinking about what you will do when this disaster comes.
Who are the people you know who will need the most help navigating whatever changes are coming?
What insurance do you have now?
What rules and guidelines are you following?
What do your policies actually say?
Can you answer all these questions? How up to snuff are you on all of this? What resources do you use to find out more information about healthcare that’s objective and propaganda free?
Really the only thing we can do right now is educate ourselves more. If you are reading this article, then you’re already someone who uses your free time to stay informed on all things political. That’s more than 90% of the people out there do. The next step is to take your personal education on healthcare up to the next level…starting with becoming an expert on what you already have. After that, it would be figuring out how much you personally have to lose under Utopiacare.
And then you branch out to help your friends, family, and neighbors to determine what they personally have in coverage and what they will lose under Utopiacare.
From there, you activate your communities and get other people to help you educate all those around you in the same way.
Few of you out there have ever done anything like this before, we imagine. We’ve never really done anything like this before either, aside from working the 2008 campaign and educating those around us about Dr. Utopia and what he is really all about. None of this is any fun, and it takes an awful lot of work, but an educated public is the current White House’s worst nightmare.
It’s good to see people standing up to the Left at Town Hall meetings…but it would be even better to see people highly informed and able to speak articulately on every topic, instead of just voicing their frustration and anger. Pelosi, Reid, Frank, and others lampoon the emotional outbursts at the Town Halls…but they stand there like deers in the headlights when intelligent and informed people stand up and directly question the push to socialism and healthcare redistribution.
We hate to borrow anything from propaganda central NBC, but “the more you know” the better things will be for all of us.
We will do our part by continuing to focus on this, and to ask you to push yourselves further. And you can help us by spreading the word on other sites that people need to start educating themselves on healthcare. Together, we can start a grassroots pushback on all this the likes of which has never been seen.
Together, we could actually end up saving this country from disaster…and could take back this government from the Left in 2010.
Who’s with us?
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May I suggest yet another venue for an “emotional outburst” about Health Care? How’s about outside the theatre?
http://syd4.blogspot.com/2009/10/standing-outside-theatre-i-yelled-that.html
BTW, we have recently been switched to Humana. Still trying to navigate the waters. Our co-pays and yearly contributions are on the rise at this moment. We are playing along… by refusing drugs that are not covered (which is a slew of ‘em.)
The person I know who will suffer the most from all this is… my mom. Who is barely surviving with her Medicare as it is. And she uses minimal medical care, in part, because of it.
I also have a son who cannot get reasonably priced insurance. He lost his job and cannot find a new one that will give him enough hours. He is 25. Pays out of pocket for whatever he needs.
AMEN!
There will be all sorts of “companies” pop up to “provide” health insurance for less than the penalty for not having it!
Just wondering what HB’s reaction is to Roland Burris saying he won’t vote for health care unless it includes a government run public option?
Roland Burris is a good man whom we know personally.
He is also a very smart man.
A smart man who has been mistreated by the Democratic party at every turn.
We will leave it up to you to decide why a strategic-thinking, smart, good man who was treated badly by the White House and all Democrats in the Senate, House, and DNC is making comments that essentially will create a Civil War in the Democratic Party.
Kind of like what we would do if we were in the Senate.
Look at it from 20,000 feet. It’s not about what Burris wants for healthcare…it’s about knowing this is a line in the sand that Dems will have to take a stand on, and doing that is what’s going to draw out an all out war that will bring down many of the people who were bad to Burris.
http://antynomys.blogspot.com/2009/09/healthcare-reform-reality.html
This is the best discussion of the healthcare dilema that I have ever read.
June
As long as people do not go with AARP. Since they crawled up obama’s rear they will come out smelling like a rose. Give AARP the boot.
This is another assault on the free market system. Bottom line, Obamacare is nothing more than a vehicle to destroy insurance companies. Plus its tentacles reach into the link below … quite an eye-opener.
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200910176878/energy-and-environment/what-lord-monckton-said-at-dinner.html
Some people are saying that most Americans wouldn’t be “dishonest” and would sign up for healthcare and pay enough that it would be no problem. Sure! Right! It appears that the penalty is easy & simple. Where does it say that it’s illegal to not have insurance? All you have to do is figure out what you do or don’t need and simply pay a fee if you don’t want or need insurance right now, and everything is fine. The penalty costs far less than the coverage so the choice is easy. People will see it as an option where you can just wait until you need insurance, no big deal, no problem, no deception. After all, if you pay the penalty you are keeping the law, aren’t you? It’s not like you would be dishonest if you make an allowed choice and claim to do so.
Ohio Dee … it’s simple. The IRS will collect 90% of your paycheck for various fees, taxes, services and whatnot. It’s up to your creative ingenuity to figure how to live on the remaining 10%.