Germany has had a successful universal health
care system since it was put in place under Bismarck. That is well over a century ago and the
system survived the catastrophe of two world wars including one in which
outright internal devastation was inflicted on the capital stock.
During the interim, special interests have
used propaganda and bribes to prevent a similar system been installed in the
USA while not serving a third of the population and gaming the other two thirds
to pay the most anywhere.
The attempt to convert the current horror into
a universal system is now instructing the customers of the reality of the
regime. Push back from the corporations
was expected but they can got to (Canada, China, Germany – pick one). Getting serious pushback from the unions who
have to make the proposed regime work tells us it is a disaster and needs
serious revision.
As an aside, China has evolved a successful three
- tier system that generally keeps everyone pretty honest and actually
encourages active self-help. It is
presently co-pay which should likely be limited to some degree as ours is
effectively in Canada. That could now be
readily rolled out anytime.
Regardless, everyone else in the world can
generally figure something out except the USA.
Giant Unions
Turn on the Prez: Obamacare Will Shatter Backbone of Middle Class
By Nick Sorrentino on July
17, 2013
James Hoffa of the Teamsters, Joseph Hansen
of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and Donald
Taylor, the president of Unite-Here, penned a letter to the president
explaining to him that Obamacare is set to destroy the unionized middle class.
That is really what they said.
Boy times have changed. Guess maybe we actually
should have read the legislation before we passed it huh?
If the Teamsters are coming out against Obamacare
along with many other unions, and employers are coming out against Obamacare,
and religious organizations which provide healthcare to the poor are coming out
against Obamacare, and doctors from Alaska to Florida are leaving the
profession because of Obamacare, and even the Congresspeople who voted for
Obamcare are coming out against Obamacare, maybe it’s time we got rid of
Obamcare.
It is a disaster, an anvil tied to the job market,
or as Demcratic Senator Baucus referred to it in the Spring, an economic “train
wreck.”
I don’t want a train wreck. Our economy is already
pretty wrecked. We’re still trying to put the pieces together from 2008 for
crying out loud. Obamacare is not what we need.
The unions are not set to completely abandon the
president however, not that we would expect them to. They want special crony
carve outs for their members which is really just par for the Obamacare course.
But for the big unions to use these terms publicly
gives you an idea just how bad an idea Obamcare is. That they would hand such
language to their opponents is remarkable. Think about how bad they must think
things are going to get for the Teamsters to say that Obamacare will break “the
backbone of the middle class.”
That should put the fear of you know who into
anyone.
Hopefully it will put some into the President,
Valarie Jarret, and Kathleen Sebelius, but I doubt it.
(From Wall St. Cheat Sheet)
“When you and the President sought our support for
the Affordable Care Act, you pledged that if we liked the health plans we have
now, we could keep them. Sadly, that promise is under threat,” letter said.
“Right now, unless you and the Obama Administration enact an equitable fix, the
ACA will shatter not only our hard-earned health benefits,
but destroy the foundation of the 40 hour workweek that is the backbone of the
American middle class.”
1 comment:
all of the consequences you listed as emanating from the obamacare bill are right on target and , get this...are probably THE reason for its existence...duh. so, why indeed did you write to the congress of baboons we have and tell them something they already knew and were actually HOPING FOR? the whole point of this nefarious bill is to do exactly what is feared. squabbling over the obvious just entertains the sociopaths in office.
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