I heard Steven Moore on Fox News make a joke about how you can


have more medical care for less money by paying for China’s care too.

I’m not saying he read my diary entry here from October, but I  thought it was pretty funny.

Alas, the rest of RedState seems to have ignored it. (pout, pout).

http://www.redstate.com/mikerazar/2009/10/28/a-brilliant-idea-courtesy-of-the-cbo/

One more thing…In all this health care coverage, has anyone seen, heard or read a single journalist who has been careful to distinguish between annual deficit projections, ten year deficit projections, and the national debt.


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They do make those distinctions on occasion.

Flagstaff (Diary) Friday, March 19th at 9:49PM EST (link)

What is never mentioned, however, is that the out-of-pocket change for taxpayers will be not just the change in medical premiums (whether up or down), but also the horrendous increase in taxes and the hidden tax of extreme inflation.

Even if medical premiums do, by some miracle, go down, the total paid OOP will obviously go up.

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

 

If it was possible to have lower premiums,

mikerazar (Diary) Saturday, March 20th at 11:59PM EST (link)

why hasn’t a lefty billionaire or labor union start a nonprofit or even a mutual company at least in a few large states?

There are no excess profits to squeeze.

We have a nation to save, people.