McArdle: Obamacare fiasco isn’t a single-payer conspiracy. “Even if the individual market functionally disappears, most people will still be covered, and most politicians will be unwilling to endorse a program that takes away what they have.” The problem is politicians no longer seem to give an airborne fornication about what “the people” want – and the people reelect the same jackasses that ignore them anyway.
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And who will treat them?
http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/56792611556/number-of-doctors-refusing-to-see-medicare-patients
And check out the med-school enrollment #s and specialists in the training (residencies) pipeline.
It may not be a conspiracy, but it will still "magically" turn into single payer. It's the actual design, no matter what they claim.
Exactly and it is not a conspiracy because that is what they wanted all along and there are a lot of evidence that this is exactly what they wanted. I believe that this whole fiasco was done so people would complain about it and the government will come up with a better solution which would be single payer. Bob Beckel on the Five already made the case and he is a White House lackey. In a few weeks or months watch it: The administration will say, due to the very many issues with the roll out and the evil insurance companies taking away insurance our "new" solution will be single payer. Obviously believing that all/most Americans are stupid sheeple this will be something they hope no one sees that it was the plan all along.
Obama even said it, although he claimed it would be out ten to twenty years. But he stated that private insurance was something that this was designed to eliminate.
Yep. He did. He actually did and no one actually challenged him on that! The plan is to provide an "alternative", mess it up, then come up with the alternative to the alternative because they knew how insurance companies/employers would react to this plan in the first place.
Socialists are getting good at playing the game and using the bad (yet fixable) parts of capitalism against capitalism. All that is bad about the insurance companies and that whole system are absolutely fixable. This however was on its way even before Obamacare. The problems created were mainly created by government in the first place and government NEVER sought to truly fix the problem.
Once insurance companies were allowed to be conglomerates and essentially monopolize regions, that was great for their bottom line, but it was the first step to single payer system. Socialists knew that they had to wait and bid their time and see the abuses that would come out of insurance companies having all that power and give them incentives to even have more power and get bigger and bigger.
Once it gets too big and enough people suffer because of its abuses, then there is an alternative by the government, and that leads to the single payer system. This is all an evil plan. If anything I give props to socialists for being so patient and like Dana Perino said, one cannot truly defend the insurance companies because they made their bed. Had they rejected gluttony, truly be competitive, allow nationwide competition, don't muscle in on hospitals and doctors, and be truly just in their services this wouldn't have happened. Also if there were tort laws and more protection against abusive litigation, a lot of the problems would have been fixed. They fell in a trap... we all did. They didn't push for those changes because it didn't pay as much as it did to do things right. All Socialists had to do was wait and hope that Conservatives would be too engrossed in other stuff (like immigration) or as corrupt as they were to not pay attention and then attack when the next socialist President came along.
No, it's just another government run train wreck to buy votes.
I'd agree . . . "conspiracy" implies a well thought out plan of action. This is obviously ANYTHING but.
Conspiracy also implies an attempt to keep it secret.