Quote Of The Day

"This week marks one year since the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, it captures the spririt of our founders, the spirit they wrote in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Affordable Care Act offers just that—a healthier life, liberty to pursue a person's happiness, to be free of constraint, to be job-locked because they're policy-locked—so if you wanted to be a cameraman, a writer, if you want to be self-employed, if you start a business, if you want to change jobs, whatever it is you want to do, you are free, you have the liberty to do so.
So we've had Social Security, Medicare, and now health independence, and that's something our members will take home to celebrate over this Independence Day."

Nancy Pelosi.

Da...fuck?

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Health independence? Is she for real? Citizens fall under the exclusive property of the state and she thinks this is independence?

Wow.

Speaking of Obamacare, the list of companies opting out or cutting back hours to avoid the cost is growing by the day. Equally as discomforting is that according to reports, the majority of Americans are unaware of the individual mandate.

The cost of Obamacare remains very much in dispute (remember, SCOTUS ruled that it is indeed a tax which falls right in line with the OECD's projections that taxes in the USA and EU will increase - yay! More coerced fairness!) but something tells me the major source of high costs is all tied into bureaucracy - like here. It wouldn't surprise me if in places where surgeries cost so much they actually have way too much staff. To borrow a famous joke in television about needing three CBC workers to do the job of one. THAT'S where your costs explode. That and blowing up margins on equipment and other products you buy.

I don't know what is was like in Canada prior to our switch to universal care and Tommy Douglas, but I wonder if the landscape is anything like what we're seeing in the USA.

From what I read, Canada was about as close to a classical liberal paradise as a country can get, so I bet there were plenty of doctors who forewarned of the problems that would come and companies who probably weren't crazy about the whole thing. Eventually, everyone fell into line.

Come to think of it, I gotta look into this.

As for the USA, if I were to guess, single payer is the end goal and once this stage of (the unpopular) Obamacare fails, it will lead to the government's final overtake of health. If Obama manages to not get spanked in 2014, he will use the "rebellion" as proof that companies don't care for people and that he'll have to step in.

Naturally.