The Federalist has an article by John Daniel
Davidson of the Texas Public Policy Foundation which documents that many of the
losers under Obamacare will be the young and the healthy.
I’ll defer to Mr. Davidson for the details. But it immediately occurred to me that
this is typical of Democrat policies, and not just under Obama but for decades.
Democrat policy has always been to buy votes now at
the expense of future generations.
Opposing Social Security reforms is but one example. Simple demographics have long shown that
Social Security has become a Ponzi scheme that will blow up on today’s
young. But when Republicans tried
to avoid this outcome with reforms, Democrats demagogued and told the elderly
that Republicans were trying to take their Social Security. And this worked at the ballot box time
and time again as the elderly for decades voted Democrat.
Then there are the multiple ways of buying votes
with deficit spending, endangering the future economic health of the
nation. (And, yes, establishment Republicans
have participated in this vote buying as well.)
In short, Democrat policy has long been “Screw the
young! Win the next election!”
The other major set of losers under Obamacare and
Democrat policies are those who take care of themselves, in other words, the
healthy. (Granted, some people
through genetic or economic inheritance are physically or financially healthy
through little effort of their own.
So, yes, I am generalizing.)
Under Obamacare, a big reason premiums for the healthy are going up is
because people with pre-existing conditions are covered, and someone has to pay
for that.
Now it sounds all good that pre-existing conditions
are covered. And I have a friend who has had epilepsy since childhood. I don’t have a big problem helping out
someone like him, who has an acute health problem that is no fault of his own. But a lot of pre-existing conditions
are self-inflicted through over-eating, laziness, smoking, etc. Should someone who works to take care of
herself have to pay for the willful negligence of others? But that is exactly what happens under
Obamacare.
And you probably see where I’m going. Democrat policy is to buy the votes of
the lazy and the looters with the taxes of the workers and with deficit
spending. Work, responsibility, and success are
punished. Laziness and
fecklessness are rewarded.
So Obamacare is the same old same old from
Democrats . . . just on steroids.
So hey, you younguns and those who take care of
yourselves, are you tired of being screwed over yet?
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