Cluster-Blank Column

Hillary Healthcare is Still Socialism

 

By Jeff Scott

 

Last week Hillary Rodham Clinton, the next President of the United States, announced her “new” health care plan so we can all see the future ruin of the American health care system.  Hillary claims that her new plan is not a government run bureaucracy, but if you look at the specifics, all you see is more big government.  It is socialism, pure and simple.

 

The big word that Hillary is using is “individual mandate.”  That means that every American will be “responsible” for providing their own health insurance, and that every American must have health insurance.  In fact, she has even proposed requiring people to show proof of insurance when applying for a job (more on this later).  Everyone is supposed to have health insurance through a combination of requiring large businesses to provide insurance for their employees, giving tax breaks to small businesses to encourage them to provide coverage, and a government plan similar to Medicare or the current federal employees’ insurance plan.

 

How does Hillary plan to pay for all of this?  By eliminating the tax cuts for the “rich.”  Let’s see...”from those according to their means to those according to their needs.”  Hillary is channeling the ghost of Karl Marx!  Take from the rich, give to the poor, just like Comrade Marx!

 

Let us not forget about the regulations on insurance companies that Hillary is proposing.  Insurance companies would be required to:  a) provide insurance for anybody who applies; and b) give everybody the same premiums, regardless of health status.  That means that people who are healthy will be forced to pay for, through higher insurance premiums, the medical bills of the slovenly masses that have never heard of exercise and therefore have heart attacks every six months.  These people have to have the same premiums as healthy Americans under Hillary’s plan.  So what happens?  People who are constantly in and out of the hospital cost more for the insurance company, but they cannot be charged more for using more resources, so the premiums for everybody rise.  This makes it more difficult to afford health care, whether it is a business or an individual who pays for it, so they go for the “cheaper” option:  the government provided plan.  See how this works?  See how everybody still ends up a part of a government bureaucracy?  That’s because it is all about power for Hillary and the Democrats.  The more people they can have dependent on government, the more they can expand their voting base since the American people will be more than willing to give up their freedom for the promise of having the “benevolent” federal government take care of them.

 

Now, there is a second way that people will be pushed towards the government health care scheme.  Remember how Hillary mentioned that people would be required to show proof of health insurance to get a job?  Most people get health insurance from their employer, so anybody who is unemployed for any amount of time will be forced to sign up with the government plan in order to get another job, which of course will not include health insurance because that new employee already has coverage.  In the end, we all end up on the government plan, depending on the government to take care of our health care.  Keep in mind, too, that this is coming from the same woman who said that “privatization…is not the answer to anything.”

 

So I hope that you are all looking forward to waiting lists for urgent care, doctors leaving the business, shortages of health care, and people dying waiting for a simple diagnostic test such as a CT scan or an MRI that currently can be done in a matter of minutes.  After all, if you have to wait eight months to get an MRI on your brain tumor, it is going to kill you first.  Ask the citizens of any other country to have a scheme like the one Hillary is proposing.  Welcome to health care hell.