An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Kill The Bill!
Charles Krauthammer: Kill the bill, do health reform right
A few highlights:
The result is an overregulated, overbureaucratized system of surpassing arbitrariness and inefficiency. Throw a dart at the Senate tome:
You’ll find mandates with financial penalties — the amounts picked out of a hat.
You’ll find insurance companies (who live and die by their actuarial skills) told exactly what weight to give risk factors, such as age. Currently insurance premiums for 20-somethings are about one-sixth the premiums for 60-somethings. The House bill dictates the young shall now pay at minimum one-half; the Senate bill, one-third — numbers picked out of a hat.
You’ll find sliding scales for health insurance subsidies — percentages picked out of a hat — that will radically raise marginal income tax rates for middle-class recipients, among other crazy, unintended consequences.
Read the entire column here.
We keep hearing the words “deficit neutral” when it comes to these misnamed ‘health care bills’. We talking about the federal government here. There is no such thing as deficit neutral. These bills do not address actual care and well being of our citizens. They are nothing more than tax and spend fiascoes.
To put it quite bluntly, those who have spent so much of their adult lives living inside the Beltway have no idea what they are doing. Is the destruction of the best, and yes, most expensive, health care system in the world their intent? It sure appears to be the case. If they were serious about reform, they’d first address the issue of TORT reform. Frivolous lawsuits brought about by people who are too damn ignorant to realize that even though mistakes are made, they are not entitled to a lifetime payment from doctors, hospitals, or the insurance premiums from their fellow citizens. Yes, in the case of negligence, they are entitled to some compensation. I won’t dispute that at all. Are the so called lawmakers aware that the people who are actually paying these huge settlements are US?
Open the states to REAL competition. I’m not sure who thought it was a good idea to prevent health insurance companies from offering the same policy in North Carolina as they do in Arizona, but it’s not exactly a bright one.
The lack of every day plain ol’ common sense in our nation’s capital is just mind boggling. We don’t need anymore incompetent bureaucracies! The House, Senate, and White House are already incompetent enough for anyone.
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Our present Congress is a disgrace to every living American. It has finally reached the acme of absurdity. I’m aghast at some of the rethoric coming from this body. But the fact that they are mostly lawyers says a lot. They are devoid of common sense.
The sad thing is, there are a lot of disgraces that keep voting the weasels back in. This is why I have become quite a strong proponent of term limits.