Back from Dec 19th (updated based on the passage of the Federal Tax Reform bill): We no sooner get the Obamacare Individual Mandate jackboot off of our healthcare necks via the Tax Reform Act than this Republican Senate Jackal, US Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), would be HAPPY to see the States turn around and put in their own Individual Mandates.
What the h*ll is he thinking, given that they promised to get rid of Obamacare.
And he wants to see the worst philosophical part of it, fined/ taxed for choosing to do nothing, implemented by the States? Way to win lose elections, dirtbag:
Key author of Obamacare overhaul bill welcomes states’ passing their own individual mandates
Sen. Bill Cassidy welcomes the possibility that blue states would create their own individual mandates in response to Congress repealing the provision from Obamacare, saying it would help lay the groundwork for passage of his healthcare bill. “Our big thing about federalism is that states are quite capable of doing that,” said Cassidy, a Louisiana Republican who has pressed for Congress to pass an Obamacare overhaul bill he co-introduced, known as Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson.
Way to go to implementing free-market solutions, asshat – oh wait, it isn’t!
His healthcare bill would take funding from Obamacare and transfer it to states so they could set up their own healthcare systems. Cassidy in the past has proposed various ways that states could implement their own healthcare plans to get more people covered, such as by creating an auto-enrollment system by which people who are uninsured would receive catastrophic coverage. “I think auto-enrollment is a fantastic idea and I think states should have the ability to do that,” he told the Washington Examiner Monday.
Right, let’s just have one more decision taken away from We the People because, you know, the Road to Hell ain’t paved with good intentions; I kid, I kid – these are the most worse of totalitarians – that they believe they are doing a Good Work for you because they (and Bigger Government) know what is better for you than you yourselves! And oh, the cost of doing this Good Work is making sure you’re paying for it:
Proponents of the individual mandate point to these results as evidence that the mandate needs to be made stronger, such as through closing exemptions, rather than repealed. A bill Republicans considered earlier this year would have implemented a waiting period for those who failed to get covered outside of designated enrollment times.
And then he decides to slam a whole bunch of us that really do believe in the NH motto of Live Free or Die:
“There are a lot of ways to do it,” Cassidy said, referring to a potential impetus to get more people covered by health insurance. “Folks who are negative just don’t think about it.”
And he gets it completely bass-ackwards – it is BECAUSE we have thought about it, and the costs of it, and the diminishment of Individual Rights and mandatorily being relieved of just one more aspect of self-reliance, self-sufficiency, and self-government that “are negative” just doesn’t even BEGIN to approach his casual toss-off.
And I really HATE this next part because it sounds like people will be thrown off RATHER than deciding for themselves I don’t need or want it:
CBO has projected the individual mandate repeal would result in 13 million more people becoming uninsured and it would save the federal government $338 billion over a decade. The nonpartisan agency is re-evaluating its methods, and a Standard and Poor analysis pegged the projection at 5 million people without insurance or fewer.
Because they became uninsured voluntarily????
I really do hate this game and the GOP CongressionalTwits all fell for this Democrat talking point. I have to give Dems credit where credit is due – the only “important” number is those insured – and never the “affordable” piece of those NOT being subsidized by others and never the quality of care being proferred (which is substandard).
Until the GOP can get its collective messaging act together, they’re just going to end up being the Dem and media whipping boys. Heck, they can’t even make the case that the Tax Reform Act in making sure you have more of your money than before the Act is a good thing.
(H/T: Washington Examiner)
