Like so many things that seem
new, Obamacare is in many ways old wine in new bottles. For example, when confronted with the fact
that millions of Americans stand to lose their existing medical insurance,
defenders of Obamacare say this is true only when those people have
“substandard” insurance. Who decides
what is “substandard?” What is older than the idea some exalted elite knows
what is good for us better than we know ourselves? President Barack Obama uses the rhetoric of
going “forward,” but he is in fact going backward to an age when despots told
everybody what they had better do and better not do. Obamacare is old in yet another way. One of
the fundamental reasons private medical insurance has gotten so expensive is
that politicians in state after state have mandated what this insurance must
cover, regardless what individuals want.
Insurance covering everything
from baldness treatments to sex-change operations is a lot more expensive than
insurance covering only major illnesses that can drain your life’s savings. Now
these mandates have moved up from the state to the federal level…..To Read More…..
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