Let’s Make It Against the Law
Mandatory health insurance isn’t the answer to the health care dilemma.
A Colorado panel selected by former Governor Bill Owens (R) to recommend something for the ailing health-care system released its recommendations: Every person residing in Colorado should be legally required to have health insurance.
Owens was ousted by term limits last year. Hopefully our new governor, Bill Ritter (D), will see this as the bunk it is. It should be noted that Owens was about as effective as a porcupine with no quills, and that he loaded the panel with stooges from AARP, a doctor’s group of some sort, and a bunch of health-insurance industry types. People not really the least bit interested in cost containment. But jeez, it seems that runaway health-care costs are being caused by the dirt-bag losers making eight bucks an hour who refuse to buy health insurance. The panel has recommended penalties for those refusing to buy insurance. Taxing low-income people big time is going to solve the great health-care dilemma? What are we going to do with the bag lady? Take away her Safeway cart or her giant cardboard box? Both, if she continues to refuse to buy insurance?
AARP is running a commercial that says something like, “People that don’t have health insurance (losers and slackers) are costing people with it (good, productive, hard-working people) nine hundred and something dollars per year. That money could put groceries on the table. The ad has some exact figure, like $947.26, which is always a neat trick in disinformation, as it presents the idea that, golly, there must of been some mathematicians and stuff involved in the research. But a lot of the I-worked-hard-for-everything-I’ve-got AARP type of folks have never paid the real cost of their health insurance. Their employers paid, now they receive Medicare. Yet most of these people aren’t shy about using the health-care system. And as AARP lobbies for the uninsured to spend their rent money on insurance, they also yammer on about more government coverage for prescriptions and services for older Americans, regardless of their ability to pay. A bit hypocritical.
Let’s cut to the chase, and simply make it illegal to be poor.
