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AP: Citing a Fact is Not Playing Nice
Written By : Lee Doren

Leave it to the Associated Press to demonstrate its Leftist bias and economic illiteracy in one sentence. Apparently, the insurance companies are citing the fact that if they have to cover all preexisting conditions, the price for everyone’s insurance premiums will increase. Yes, and the sky is blue.

Insurance companies aren’t playing nice any more. Their dire message that health care legislation will drive up premiums for people who already have coverage comes as a warning shot at a crucial point in the debate, and threatens President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.

It is one thing to argue for Barack Obama’s healthcare plan, it is another thing entirely to ignore the laws of basic economics. Sadly, being on the Left by definition means that Utopia can always be created by wishing something to be true.  It is too bad that those who live in a fantasy world have a monopoly on creating Federal legislation.

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  • http://wastingtimewithalex.com/ AlexinCT

    Gee, so me knowing that the quality of care I am now quite happy with will go down and the price I pay for it will go up, and go up drastically, "threatens" Obama's big plan? Why the hell should I get all bent out of shape that these politicians are about to ruin everything I worked for in my life so they can drag me down to the same level as those that find themselves down because of their choices and actions? Obama means well, and that's all I need to know..

    F them all.

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  • Mike_M

    What, you think Max-and-Spend Baucus doesn't know this? His bill is specifically written to cripple and destroy the private insurance industry by legislating away all the business decisions that insurance companies have to make to be able to provide service and remin in business.

    He wants private insurance to fail so every man, woman, and child in America is forced to become a dependent on the government. And just for good measure he tops it off with a flagrantly unconstitutional capitance tax (the universal coverage-or-fine mandate).

    The Democrat Party is an enemy of freedom. The've proved as much. There's no other way to put it.

  • Jack Schite

    Anyone who thinks the AP is liberal needs a head from ass extraction.

    Seriously.

  • BIG

    I haven't seen such a big case of atack the messenger and completely ignore the message in a long time. Foxnews is explaining the Price Waterhouse Report, but CNN is attacking it. They won't go into the details, just attack the messenger.

    ON a personal note, I have Cadilac health insurance and will not be able to keep it with the new taxes that will be put in place. And what is worse about all of this is there will still be millions of Americans without coverage after all this destruction is done.

    THe health insurance reform doesn't help people, it doesn't help doctors, and it doesn't help health insurance companies. It helps big pharma, AARP, and unions. If you think that this is for all Americans, you must be watching CNN, NBC, of CBS.

  • whats_up

    THe health insurance reform doesn't help people, it doesn't help doctors, and it doesn't help health insurance companies. It helps big pharma, AARP, and unions. If you think that this is for all Americans, you must be watching CNN, NBC, of CBS.

    Posted by BIG

    2009-10-13 09:36:08

    Sorry Big, but it most definitly helps the people, no way around that.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Com Dick_Nixon

    Posted by Jack Schite

    2009-10-13 09:26:48

    Can you please get some better material if you are going to troll here? Seriously, you suck at trolling.

  • TheBaud

    Sorry Big, but it most definitly helps the people, no way around that.

    Posted by whats_up 2009-10-13 10:23:44

    "Sorry Big, but it most definitly helps the people IN CONGRESS, no way around that."

  • Mike_M

    "Sorry Big, but it most definitly helps the people, no way around that."

    Yeah, it's helps the people lose their private insurance and be forced onto the public option.

    No Democrat has explained how taxing insurance policies, heaping mandates and regulations on insurers, eliminating one of the cornerstones of the concepts of insurance itself in disregarding pre-existing conditions, and fining people with no or substandard plans is going to "reduce costs".

    It's a transparent and shabby lie and their phony plan won't even cover everyone, giving them a built-in excuse to expand the program once it's established and impossible to get rid of. Obama and the Democrats have no interest in helping anybody, they want to control.

  • BIG

    Posted by whats_up

    2009-10-13 10:23:44

    Over 80% of Americans are happy with their current coverage. So for 20% of the population, you are willing to destroy the security that the majority feel? How does raising the cost of my coverage 40% help me? 40% of doctors say they will either retire or close their practices if this is passed. How will not having a doctor help me? There is not a penny in these bills to train new doctors. Most doctors come out of med school with over $150K in debt. Do you think people are going to spend that kind of money and years of their lives to get their degrees if all they are promised is less money? Americans make up 2% of the population, yet we make over 50% of the new medicines that come on the market. When you squeeze the money out of the system, do you think that the level of innovation is going to continue?

    What we have here is something that will dismantle the best system in the world to impose single payer system. One in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lives. We currently enjoy a 90% cure rate. In Canada, it is 50%. In Norway, it is 40%. Only a liberal would think that higher mortality is something to strive for.

  • http://www.comics.com/editoons/asay/ Zheldon

    It may help some of the people, but it is not the best way to do it.

    The best way is to start small. Minor changes that can be observed and undone if needed. Some easy examples would be tort reform, allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines.

    An indirect helper would be to enforce our immigration laws and secure our borders.

    This currently plan has a bonus of a tax. Since it is not labeled as a tax ignorant people will not see it as such.

  • http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

    Anyone who thinks the AP is NOT liberal needs a head from ass extraction.

    Seriously.

    Posted by Jack Schite

    2009-10-13 09:26:48

    TFTFY, retard.

  • http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

    What we have here is something that will dismantle the best system in the world to impose single payer system.

    I'd like to add "…which sucks everyplace in the world it's been tried."
    http://www.liberty-page.com/issues/healthcare/soc

  • aharris

    W_U please take some time to explain how adding taxes to my insurance coverage (tax=added cost to me for the purposes of this question) and the medical equipment I need to maintain my basic stadard of health (dental appliances like braces, retainers, dentures, mammograms, wheelchairs and crutches, hearing aids, etc.) control and lower my out-of-pocket health care costs?

    You are insane if you think making the necessary things for health care MORE expensive will control or lower any costs.

  • Mike_M

    "You are insane if you think making the necessary things for health care MORE expensive will control or lower any costs."

    That's what the death panels are for. My cost for insurance will be lower if you're just stuck on a waiting list to die instead of getting all that expensive heart surgery or physical therapy.

    Well, not really. Because my insurance and treatment will be taxed by the government so *their* cost will be lower. High rise office buildings full of bureaucrats aren't cheap you know. Just think, every cancer patient allowed to die instead of getting chemo can fund one more government job.

  • http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

    Sorry Big, but it most definitly helps the people, no way around that.

    I'm sorry, do you really think repeating "Nuh uh! Nuh uh!" after everything we say actually amounts to an argument?

  • http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

    I'm sorry, do you really think repeating "Nuh uh! Nuh uh!" after everything we say actually amounts to an argument?

    I bet his first answer is "yuh-huh."

  • http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

    "Sorry Big, but it most definitly helps the people, no way around that."

    The people? Does that mean all of us, or just some mythical group you choose to call "the people"? Does it help straight Medicare or Medicare Advantage enrollees? Does it help business owners? Does it help the already insured?

    Aren't those people part of "the people" too?

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