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What ObamaCare is Really About
I'm
a 54 year old consulting engineer and make between $60,000 and $125,000
per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not there are
work projects out there for me.
My girlfriend is 61 and makes about $18,000 per year, working as a part-time mail clerk.
For
me, making $60,000 a year, under ObamaCare, the cheapest, lowest grade
policy I can buy, which also happens to impose a $5,000 deductible,
costs $482 per month.
For my girlfriend, the same exact policy,
same deductible, costs $1 per month. That's right, $1 per month. I'm not
making this up.
Don't believe me? Just go to
www.coveredca.gov ,
the ObamaCare website for California and enter the parameters I've
mentioned above and see for yourself. By the way, my zip code is 93940.
You'll need to enter that.
So OK, clearly ObamaCare is a scheme
that involves putting the cost burden of healthcare onto the middle and
upper-income wage earners. But there's a lot more to it. Stick with me.
And before I make my next points, I'd like you to think about something:
I
live in Monterey County , in Central California .. We have a large land
mass but just 426,000 residents - about the population of Colorado
Springs or the city of Omaha .
But we do have a large Hispanic
population, including a large number of illegal aliens, and to serve
this group we have Natividad Medical Center, a massive, Federally
subsidized county medical complex that takes up an area about one-third
the size of the Chrysler Corporation automobile assembly plant in
Belvedere, Illinois (see Google Earth View). Natividad has
state-of-the-art operating rooms, Computed Tomography and Magnetic
Resonance Imaging, fully equipped, 24 hour emergency room, and much
more. If you have no insurance, if you've been in a drive-by shooting or
have overdosed on crack cocaine, this is where you go. And it's
essentially free, because almost everyone who ends up in the ER is
uninsured.
Last year, 2,735 babies were born at Natividad. 32%
of these were born to out-of-wedlock teenage mothers, 93% of which were
Hispanic. Less than 20% could demonstrate proof of citizenship, and 71%
listed their native language as Spanish. Of these 876 births, only 40
were covered under [any kind of] private health insurance. The taxpayers
paid for the other 836. And in case you were wondering about the entire
population - all 2,735 births - less than 24% involved insured coverage
or even partial payment on behalf of the patient to the hospital in
exchange for services. Keep this in mind as we move forward.
Now consider this:
If
I want to upgrade my policy to a low-deductible premium policy, such as
what I had with my last employer, my cost is $886 per month. But my
girlfriend can upgrade her policy to the very same level, for just $4
per month. That's right, $4 per month. $48 per year for a
zero-deductible, premium healthcare policy - the kind of thing you get
when you work at IBM (except of course, IBM employees pay an average of
$170 per month out of pocket for their coverage).
I mean, it's
bad enough that I will be forced to subsidize the ObamaCare scheme in
the first place. But even if I agreed with the basic scheme, which of
course I do not, I would never agree to subsidize premium policies. If I
have to pay $482 a month for a budget policy, I sure as hell do not
want the guy I'm subsidizing to get a better policy, for less that 1% of
what I have to fork out each month for a low-end policy.
Why
must I pay $482 per month for something the other guy gets for a
dollar? And why should the other guy get to buy an $886 policy for $4 a
month? Think about this: I have to pay $10,632 a year for the same thing
that the other guy can get for $48. $10,000 of net income is 60 days of
full time work as an engineer . $48 is something I could could pay for
collecting aluminum cans and plastic bottles, one day a month.
Are you with me on this? Are you starting to get an idea what ObamaCare is really about?
ObamaCare
is not about dealing with inequities in the healthcare system. That's
just the cover story. The real story is that it is a massive, political
power grab. Do you think anyone who can insure himself with a premium
policy for $4 a month will vote for anyone but the political party that
provides him such a deal? ObamaCare is about enabling, subsizdizing, and
expanding the Left's political power base, at taxpayer expense. Why
would I vote for anyone but a Democrat if I can have babies for $4 a
month? For that matter, why would I go to college or strive for a better
job or income if it means I have to pay real money for healthcare
coverage? Heck, why study engineering when I can be a schlub for $20K
per year and buy a new F-150 with all the money I'm saving?
And
think about those $4-a-month babies - think in terms of propagation
models. Think of just how many babies will be born to irresponsible,
under-educated mothers. Will we get a new crop of brain surgeons and
particle physicists from the dollar baby club, or will we need more
cops, criminal courts and prisons? One thing you can be certain of: At
$4 a month, they'll multiply, and multiply, and multiply. And not one of
them will vote Republican.
ObamaCare: It's all about political power.
