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Is obamacare coming to your house much sooner than you think? I know we have a lot of self employed folks that play here and this news does not affect those persons, but we have many who currently have employer assisted health care plans.
This article opines that those employer HC plans will not last much longer. I hope this opinion is wrong.
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It's not wrong Dan. Welcome to Oceania.
Not only is it not a surprise, it was always part of the plan. The whole idea is to push as many people as possible into the pools with the older and poorer so they can subsidize the care. If young people and people on private plans stay out it's just a big sign up push for Medicare/Medicaid and that still comes right out of government budgets, as opposed to the massive hidden wealth transfer of doing it within the insurance pools.
Socialized medicine works better when you force everyone onto the same plan. As you and most here know, that's been the plan all along.
Our best hope is that it's totally horribly awful for enough people we can have the votes to change it. In the long run it's still less overall suffering than to limp along with this socialized crap that will make the service at the VA look good in 8-10 years.
I agree with Chuck, the ACA was designed to hasten the collapse of employer provided healthcare.
I look at our economy and can't help but wonder at how politicians can't see the dangerous economic situation we are in.
Some of them, if not most, clearly see it. But they don't give a damn because it's of no consequence to them. They have that Lincoln Continental Plan that the greedy, crooked politicos voted in for themselves back in the 60's, right along with that lifetime pension they receive whether they serve one term or ten terms. Most of those people holding office do not give two squats about the average, everyday hardworking Joe's & Jane's out here who have been struggling and suffering because of their uncaring incompetence.Quote:
Originally Posted by KeithKSR
I believe we are quickly approaching a point where even the ballot box will not produce the positive results we need & want. The soapboxed hasn't worked because they're not listening. The ballot box is most likely rigged in their favor. That does not leave us very many options to use against them. JMHO.
Of all the comments here the one that I think I connect the most with is Citizen's view of how the Left define Fat Cats. As expensive as it is it does seem that many hard working people that have been blessed to earn six figures, or in the high figure range, are being targeted as ones open their pocket books like someone making 7 figures does.
There is a point where, while I am for helping out the less fortunate, you have to stand on your own feet. Destroying the middle class is not the answer. Making everyone poor with just a few rich won't solve our problems and will truly destroy the imperfect but democratic Republic we love.