Something I found online this weekend. Sorry I don't have a link, I failed to capture it as it was one of many articles I was reading on Saturday. But it contained the most plausible explanation for ObamaCare and its end game I've ever seen.
Since I don't have a link, let me just outline the essence of the theory:
The Obamacare legislation was designed to fail. Because the failure's being set up to support a narrative that goes sort of like this -
"Darn it, we tried, but you know capitalism and free markets just can't work when it comes to health care. We tried to partner with the insurance companies to cover everybody fairly through the exchanges, but you know those insurance companies are just too doggone greedy."
So the solution, naturally, is Government Controlled, Taxpayer Funded, Universal Health Insurance.
Hear about how those small General Practitioners are being driven out of business by Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates that don't even cover their costs? That might be on purpose. The "plan" is to move to the model of government-owned and -operated hospitals and clinics. Those formerly independent GP's will be offered a job at the government facility. For a salary, these GP's show up every day and see all the patients the bureaucrats running the place assign them. Whoops, look at that, now the doctors are forming a Union!?
How about the government forcing Catholic Hospitals to close because of the HHS Free Contraceptives mandate? The government doesn't want Catholic Hospitals to stay open. They don't want the competition. Perhaps when the Catholic Hospitals close, the government will come along and offer them some money to walk away with.
Here's the new Obama Healthcare system, coming to you by 2016: A National Health Insurance card for all citizens, just like the one Bill and Hillary tried to push on us way back in the old days. We all said, "No Way!". Hillary was angry, called us stupid.
The new system will be paid by new taxes. Multiple taxes from multiple sources. New income taxes, a Value-Added Tax, more made-up taxes and fees targeted to businesses. But of course all those new taxes won't come close to paying for the new government healthcare system.
After it's fully implemented, here's what we will all experience:
Sick and need to see a doctor? Call and maybe you'll get an appointment three months from now. By then you'll either be over the illness or dead. Can't go to the emergency room, because they'll have new rules about who can go to the emergency room, and your illness isn't on the list.
Will your care be free? No. Sure, you'll pay taxes for it. But you'll also have to pay a fee with each service. They might try to make the fee small at first, say 10 or 20 bucks. But when their numbers don't even come close to paying for their utopian new government plan, they'll apologetically explain that we all just have to pitch in a little bit more toward our healthcare. And that fee will probably spike very quickly to $100 or $200. Then they'll start dreaming up new "healthcare fee assistance programs", sort of welfare for healthcare, where the "poor" will get their fees subsidized or covered.
Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of Americans will die while waiting for a surgery. Thousands of others will receive their care in the black market. New clinics and hospitals will spring up outside the country, advertising surgeries for published flat rates. Bring your family to a resort hotel in the Bahamas while you get your heart bypass surgery - all for one reasonable flat rate of $20,000!
Americans can rise up and stop all this in its tracks. But there don't appear to be enough of us left who understand the damage being done by this government to rescue our country from this destruction. As I approach my senior years, I understand that I may have to just die and get out of the way when I get sick; it may just be that's what our president is asking of me and my generation.
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