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They say that Progressives refuse to learn from History – California is nothing if not Progressive

The States were to be labs of Democracy where others could learn from their mistakes.  Vermont, Colorado, Kentucky, Hawaii, Tennessee; all tried variations of the vaunted end-game of Progressives – universal healthcare – for if you control that, you control people.  Sorry, am not buying the argument that all they want to do is “help” people – it is all about taking more Power into themselves.  After all, the more “stuff” they have Government do, the less ability, the less Freedom we all have to make decision for ourselves on our own.  And isn’t that the purpose of being the “Land of the Free”.  And no, contrary to what Progressives believe, being relieved of making our own decisions is not “freedom” – it is infantilization.

But California Progressives, even after learning that putting in CalCare would be TWICE the normal CA State budget in and of itself.  I guarantee you that the cost will higher and the taxes needed to support it higher still will not learn from the mistakes and failures of the “labs” coming before them – like Colorado (emphasis mine):

An analysis from the Colorado Health Institute showed that their state’s ColoradoCare proposal would start off with a deficit of over $200 million in its very first year of full operation, even with a three-year headstart on new taxes to launch the system. By the end of the tenth year, the cumulative red ink would have exceeded $7 billion — which would be more than twice the state’s annual GDP.

The solutions for this fiscal meltdown in a single-payer system, CHI noted,

were all unpleasant. One option would be to cut benefits of the universal coverage, and hiking co-pays to provide disincentives for using health care. That would in some cases “reduce the level of insurance below what [Coloradans] have today,” the study noted. The state could raise taxes for the health-care system as deficits increased, which would amount to ironic premium hikes from a system designed to be a response to premium hikes from insurers. Another option: Reduce the payments provided to doctors, clinics, and hospitals for their services, which would almost certainly drive providers to either reduce their access or leave the state for greener pastures.

Like I said and want you to note: WHO is making the decisions here?  Really, is it you?  No – each one of those predictable options is the entire game board and you ain’t even rating to be a pawn. Progressives want you to believe that Universal Healthcare is part of that Heaven on Earth they’ve been promising for over a 100 years.  They keep missing the fact that it will still be here on Earth and there’s a lot of squirmy and prickly stuff that won’t go away no matter the number of shiny words they use.

Yet, California Progressives, being the true Socialists they believe in, just know that they are finally the “Right Ones” they’ve been waiting for to implement it.

Umm, what are the odds it will end up like that other Federal Universal Healthcare system – the VA?  The problems with it are well known and are shining example of Option 4: raise the time you have to wait to receive care.  ALL of these options are summed up in one word:

Rationing

But hey, it’s “free”, right? Which means that there will be more and more demand for what is a commodity item/service and increasing the cost of providing that commodity.  Certainly a “race condition” that we are seeing now with Obamacare where the costs keep going up and the level and breadth of service keep going down.

Oh, this too – for all of the moaning and wailing of the “evil insurance companies”, let me ask this – if THEY can’t reach “break even” with decades of experience, what in God’s green earth are these Progressives thinking that just because Government is doing it that they can do it better with a top-down command-and-control attitude?

If I had any money, I’d be investing in the California U-haul franchises in the beginning and then short them just after the mid-point of the mass exodus.

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