Gibbs brags:
“We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.”Rep. James Clyburn, though conceding the votes aren't there yet, is "very confident that we’ll get this done."Gibbs added that those on next week’s Sunday talk shows “will be talking about healthcare not as a presidential proposal but I think as the law of the land.”
Anita Dunn says, "Let's have an up or down vote!" No, no, not a real vote on a real bill. That wouldn't yield the desired results.
Axelrod cynically dares the next Congress to repeal, should it pass:
"I say, Let's have that fight. Make my day," Axelrod said on "Meet the Press." "I'm ready to have that, and every member of Congress ought to be willing to have that debate was well."He believes Americans will become so quickly and hopelessly hooked on the turkish delight of new health entitlements that repeal will be politically impossible:
If this bill passes, this year, children with pre-existing conditions will now be covered. There will be an end to lifetime caps and annual caps on what the insurance companies will cover, so if you get sick you won't go broke, if you get sick they won't throw you off your insurance. The doughnut hole will be filled in, so senior citizens will save hundreds of dollars on their prescription drugs. The life of Medicare will be extended, and on and on and on."And on, with the majority of American's in permanent thrall to the government. But Axelrod is not being perfectly honest here. The bill isn't potent enough, initially, to effect the instant serfdom of which statists dream. A bit of fact-checking from Byron York:
There are holes galore in Axelrod's statement. The Senate health care bill, for example, does not eliminate the insurance coverage caps as Axelrod claims. Bans on discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions have been scaled back. And experts agree that taking money out of Medicare, as the bill does, would not extend the life of Medicare if that money is used to pay for the new health care entitlement instead of shoring up Medicare.Pushing an inevitable Obamacare victory is part of the head game to discourage the opposition. Don't fall for it. It's time to show up if you can and melt the phones if you can't.
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Here is the central point and main confusion of the healthcare debate. People think that their employer-paid insurance is a gift of employment. They correctly compute that they can't pay for that insurance out of their current take-home pay. So, they want either more rules on employer-paid insurance, or insurance provided by the government.
People don't understand that they are already personally paying for their "employer-paid" insurance. They don't buy it directly so (1) it doesn't attach to them when they change jobs, (2) and they can't apply market pressure to select the insurance they might want.
We have to untangle the tax mess in healthcare. It is a tangle originally imposed by government, and now maintained by government policy. Healthcare is now tax-free when purchased indirectly through an employer, but mostly taxable in all other ways, including individually purchased insurance and direct payment for medical services.
Untangle the tax mess, remove employers from the middle, and salaries would go up in the amount of the "free" healthcare benefit through employers. Then people would have enough take-home pay to buy their own health insurance. That is what healthcare reform should be all about.
The main point for true reform is to remind ourselves that we already pay for our health insurance, but we currently have little choice about what we are buying, and true reform could put that money into our hands.
Company Paid Health Insurance is Part of Your Salary
Thanks. A quote from the link above:
"Untangle the tax mess, remove employers from the middle, and salaries would go up in the amount of the "free" healthcare benefit through employers. Then people would have enough take-home pay to buy their own health insurance. That is what healthcare reform should be all about.
The main point for true reform is to remind ourselves that we already pay for our health insurance, but we currently have little choice about what we are buying, and true reform could put that money into our hands."
Polichick -- added you.
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