Thursday, June 25, 2009[b]
Ezra Klein's Weak Defense Of Oba-Care[/i]
Writing in the Washington Post, Ezra Klein struggles for a rationale to defend Obama against Ed Morrisey pointing out that Obama fell into the trap of admitting he'd make sure that he and his family would go outside of ObaCare to get the best treatment money can buy.
To pass it, it's liberals who have to ignore reality and pretend that nothing would change in the private sector if there's a public option. Catastrophic care would likely be one of the first things to disappear from the private sector should insurers be forced to compete with the government in a system that everyone honest, even Democrats, has admitted is simply a step on the road to single payer.
Were it not a problem, Obama would have said so. He knew he was trapped.
The health care system can not deny treatment today. Even to the extent private insurance remains an option, once government begins rationing care -
and they must to control costs - there will be no rationale for private insures to not do the same to remain competitive. That is not the case today. In fact, insurers can be exposed to massive law suits today for denying claims. However, the treatment was provided. That won't be true under Obama's system.
No private system can compete with a publicly subsidized government system without controlling costs over and above any steps the government takes to do likewise. And a public option would have to control costs in many ways to be competitive with the health care that most all Americans enjoy today - even the currently uninsured.
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I'm also not sure what to say about a post that argues that the problem with Obama's health-care plan is that it would force low-income Americans to "make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people — like the president himself — wouldn’t face." I could imagine a single-payer supporter making that argument. But someone who advocates that we "boost the private sector" in health care? The same private sector, I imagine, in which having more money buys you more things?
Honestly, it's like these people live on a different planet.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezr...perplexed.html
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So says the reality-based community in embracing a non-reality to pass an eventually forced system that is ultimately bad for Americans in need of care.
http://www.riehlworldview.com/carniv...-of-obama.html
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