Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

And Why Would That Be?

NYT:
Fearing that health insurance premiums may shoot up in the next few years, Senate Democrats laid a foundation on Tuesday for federal regulation of rates, four weeks after President Obama signed a law intended to rein in soaring health costs.
After a hearing on the issue, the chairman of the Senate health committee, Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, said he intended to move this year on legislation that would “provide an important check on unjustified premiums.” 
 That would be the same NYT who didn't report on the economic certainty of premium increases due to ObamaCare, because when it comes right down to it, they are just a mouthpiece of Our Dear Leaders.

Thus:
How to Nationalize Healthcare, in 6 easy steps.
Step 1: Mandate insurance coverage for all individuals.
Step 2: Require insurance companies to provide coverage to all individuals, regardless of health risks.
Step 3: Impose price ceilings to prevent insurance companies making a profit.  Simultaneously demonize the insurance companies for their "cruel and heartless nature".
Step 4: Watch the insurance companies go bankrupt.  Quickly.
Step 5: Gleefully introduce all formerly insured citizens to the government run health care exchanges.
Step 6: Profit!  Or, you know, not.  This is the government, after all.

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