Not only is this important, it’s the reason that Mitt Romney doesn’t have a PRAYER at becoming the next GOP presidential nominee.
If you want to understand just what Obamacare is going to look like for Americans in the not-so-distant future, you only need to look as far as Massachusetts, which has essentially had the same type of healthcare system in place for 4 years now.
And it’s not going well.
Just this week, small businesses and individual people needing healthcare coverage discovered that they can no longer buy it, because Governor Deval Patrick nixed the premium price increases that the not-for-profit insurance companies requested in order to, you know, keep operating.
If this sounds remotely familiar, it’s because we’ve talked about government control over insurance company premiums before. Only now, we can use Massachusetts as a way to predict our national future.
Ever since Romney passed the universal healthcare plan in 2006, costs have skyrocketed. And because Deval Patrick thinks like Obama, who believes that price hikes are obviously the fault of the evil, greedy insurance companies, he decided the sure-fire way to fix the price hikes was to reject nearly all of the premium increases that the state’s insurers asked to have him approve. So, in order to stay in business, the insurance companies have stopped selling new policies. It was pretty much that or be insolvent.
And in typical liberal Atlas Shrugged fashion, the state has now threatened the insurance companies with fines and punishments if they don’t start selling new policies asap, with YEAR OLD PREMIUM RATES. Do you realize how huge that is? The government is ordering private companies to sell their products. At a price the GOVERNMENT is naming, no less. If you weren’t freaked out by how much control Obama has been trying to gain over private industry already, now’s the time to freak out. It has come to this.
Hilariously, the Massachusetts AG has concluded that the reason their state’s premiums are so high isn’t because of insurance company greed, but because of the “underlying cost of healthcare.”
YA THINK? Wow.
And, just as I’ve been predicting will happen nationally for months now, people in Massachusetts have been buying coverage only when they’re sick, and running up the tab, and then dropping it, because that’s what Obamacare-type plans allow you to do. That of course raises the costs for everyone. Obama’s plan forces insurance companies to charge the same rates for everyone regardless of their health status or pre-existing conditions, so it’s impossible for the insurers NOT experience huge losses. This is why costs go up. My four year old could even understand this better than the moronic liberal Democrats who voted this piece of garbage into law.
It’s a disaster, you guys. And it’s coming to all of our states now.
