Last Thursday, the first elements of the Fed's planned take-over, implosion, and rationing of your future health care, kicked-in. Add-ons like expanded benefit limits, coverage guaranteed for kids with existing ills, no co-pay for some preventative procedures, etc. More coverage, keep your plan, keep your doctors, no higher cost, and we're even gonna save a bundle, so says the Administration's Department of Day-Dream Believers.
Now, if you think for a moment that requiring a gaggle of new benefits won't increase both individual and group policy premiums, then like our Pinocchio-Feds, you, too, have pushed the dog aside and are drinking the blue water. America's insurance companies aren't charities. To the distain of socialists, they operate in the private-sector, and as with our tradition, are free to make whatever profit competition allows. To the surprise of no one outside imperial D.C., premiums are already on the rise, in some cases, double-digit, and most insurers have stopped selling child-only policies, to help buffer the coming spike in liabilities, created by this Big Government cram-down. The Feds aren't happy, having literally threatened the insurers not to raise prices, blaming it on this dictatorial benefit increase. As such, expect blame-deflecting-D.C. to continue vilifying and punishing the health insurers, with the goal of crushing these shareholder-owned companies, giving the Feds absolute-control over health care. And those promised phantom-of-the-operating-room savings? Cuts in Medicare, driving even more doctors away, abandoning our seniors to the ethical insult of rationing. Job one in January: Repeal this nonsense, which in all ways, we cannot afford. Restore individual choice and responsibility, in this free nation's tradition of competitive marketplace, not government, solutions.
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