Yesterday Betsy McCaughey posted an article at the New York Post about the redistribution of health resources under Obamacare.  Ms. McCaughey points out that the government projections on the cost of Obamacare through 2019 show that employers and consumers will pay higher health insurance premiums than if Obamacare had not been passed. 

The article points out: 

“In 2014, a staggering 85.2 million people — 31 percent of all nonelderly Americans — will be on Medicaid and CHIP (the Medicaid-like children’s health program). This accounts for the majority of those who’d gain health coverage. Amazingly, only 3 percent more people will have private insurance.”

Obamacare loosens the requirements for Medicaid, pushing more people into government-paid healthcare–increasing the welfare-state mentality. 

The article further states:

“In 2014, a staggering 85.2 million people — 31 percent of all nonelderly Americans — will be on Medicaid and CHIP (the Medicaid-like children’s health program). This accounts for the majority of those who’d gain health coverage. Amazingly, only 3 percent more people will have private insurance.”

 

The result of this is the trampling of two basic American ideals–our basic work ethic and our committment to the people who raised us.

Ms. McCaughey concludes:

“Higher premiums are bad enough, but to see the older generation victimized in order to expand a welfare culture is a total reversal of American values.”

I have one more thought.  Nancy Pelosi made a big deal about the fact that children can now be covered under their parents’ health insurance until age 26.  She has said, “We see it as an entrepreneurial bill, a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”  Maybe I am terribly old-fashioned, but I wanted to encourage my children to be out of the house and working at age 26.  If one of my children wanted to be an artisit or a musician, I would encourage them to do it while actually working for a living.  It seems to me that we have delayed the end of adolescence almost indefinitely already, and this bill continues the trend of not encouraging people to grow up and take responsibility for their own lives.  This is another step toward the nanny state.  The nanny state is not compatible with freedom.  We need to remember that.