Posted by
Bill Crawford on Saturday, April 10, 2010 8:46:15 PM
Just as New York City under Fiorella LaGuardia was widely regarded as the laboratory for the New Deal in the early 1930's, the Bay State and it's experiment with universal health care was touted as a springboard for ObamaCare this year.
I realize it was done in part to taunt former Governor Mitt Romney, but it was done primarily to pose it as some sort of bipartisan exercise.
Well, health care premiums are rising faster in Ted Kennedy's backyard than anywhere else in the country. The insurance industry is being told that they have to accept the new applicants, even those with pre-existing conditions, without raising rates any further. This is the Obama/ Emanuel business model that is going to be forced on all of us: if you can't figure out how to stay in business under our new rules, then go into another business. Oh, and I guess the government will have to pick up the slack.
And, after ten years of that, if there are no insurance companies left, we have what kind of health care here? Gosh, you mean single payer? We didn't WANT to do that!
Obama never tired of saying that "you can keep your insurance and your doctor under this new plan". Again, that wasn't the point. The way they have set it up, will they want to keep you?