Obamacare is doing for Healthcare what Obama did for College Tuition
Lynn Woolley at the U.S. Capitol on 6.21.2020 (Photo by Julie Sullivan for WBDaily)
When the Pandemic hit, Democrats were not about to let a crisis go to waste. We were told to wear masks and shelter in place, and non-essential businesses had to shut down. The government decided that Walmart was essential, but lots of small businesses had to close.
That meant the economy needed a stimulus, and so we spent and spent and spent.
Right now, Democrats are fighting to keep Biden-era spending levels intact. That includes the supersized Obamacare add-ons. You’ll remember that President Obama federalized student loans, and the cost of college tuition skyrocketed. It works that way with heathcare, too.
This is what the real fight is about: whether the government ought to be involved in these things at all. And, whether government ought to take over healthcare.
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We have a socialism problem in America right now.
The socialists – Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Greg Casar, Zohran Mamdani and such – are clamoring for a single payer system. That would put the government in complete control of heathcare.
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Lots of people who might want to be doctors will not want to work for the government. Costs would balloon, wait times would lengthen, and the medical industry would stagnate. But that’s what the end game is in the fight to keep expanding Obamacare into Medicare for All.
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Note that we are trillions of dollars away from having no money.
What I mean is, we would need to find about $37,900,000,000,000 to add to the Treasury just to be dead broke at $0. That’s how much we owe. It’s staggering. The National Debt Clock never stops running and we never shut down any spending. When Elon Musk and DOGE tried to save a few pennies, the Left went crazy. Yet, what Musk was able to claw back or eliminate from the budget was insignificant.
The Democrats are using raw emotion to try to force Republicans into spending more money we don’t have – on top of subsidies that have already been added. Per Veronique de Rugy, writing in the Los Angeles Times:
The Paragon Institute’s Brian Blase notes that in 2014, taxpayers covered 68 percent of Obamacare premiums. By 2020, that figures had risen to 80 percent. With Biden’s COVID-era credits, taxpayers now cover 93 percent of premiums.
Yet the Democrats scream that millions will be tossed off heathcare if we don’t make the Biden subsidies permanent. They were meant for emergency spending; they were never meant to be permanent. Unless Democrats lied to us the whole time. Ronald Reagan told us:
The closest thing to eternal life on Earth is a government program.
We’re seeing this with Obamacare right now. Even temporary spending must be permanent.
America is spending like we were at war.
Both parties are to blame. The Democrats have no shame when it comes to bloated government. Republicans at least gripe about it before they help pass the Democrats’ big spending bills.
The city of Austin, now mired in debt, is trying to figure out how to replace money from the American Rescue Plan, Biden’s big pandemic stimulus. But it was supposed to be temporary. What is it about “temporary” that Democrats don’t understand?
One thing that is not temporary is the National Debt Clock. It keeps on ticking. Government, especially when Democrats are in charge, expand government to ridiculous extremes with only a bit of whimpering from Republicans. One of these days, members of Congress will try to kick the can down the road, but the can won’t move. There will be no more borrowing possible, and therefore no money to fund the military or pay for Social Security. That means all the revenue government has will go to paying interest on whatever the National Debt balloons to.
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When that day comes, we will be mired in South American-style inflation. A potato will be worth more than cash because you can’t eat cash.
Here’s a suggestion that might get us on the right track.
Abolish Obamacare. Start getting the government out of healthcare. Reform our insurance industry so that most of us that are healthy do not spend thousands of dollars per year on insurance we never use.
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A typical visit to the doctor should be paid for out-of-pocket like we used to do. Insurance should be reserved for catastrophic events like severe injuries from a car wreck, or diseases like cancer. Without government reimbursements, the cost of health care would go down – potentially way down. We’d all have more money, and insurance companies would be far leaner.
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Let’s get the government out of the college tuition business, too. Let’s make colleges suffer the loss when one of their degrees fails to provide a job that can pay back the tuition. Better yet, let’s DOGE colleges so that tuition can be drastically reduced.
If you see a pattern forming, you’re right.
Lynn Woolley interviewing Bernie Sanders on the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington 9-29-21. (Photo by Julie Sullivan for WBDaily.)
The more government gets involved in a segment of society, the more expensive it becomes. Yet, the Democrats, especially the socialists like Sanders, AOC, and Mamdani, want much more government. Mamdani wants government-run grocery stores. Can you imagine what a disaster that would be?
The profit motive is what puts the quality into the things we buy and the services we want.
These are the facts. This is what the fight over Obamacare subsidies is really all about. It’s about taxpayers picking up the tab for other people’s health care, and causing the cost to skyrocket. It happened with tuition and it’s happening with healthcare.
If the Democrats get their way, and you have three cows and your neighbor has just one cow…
As Joe Biden would say: You know the thing!
Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter. Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us. Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley.
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