I’m not sure why political cartoonists have been revisiting the issue of Obamacare in recent days, but I’ve been enjoying their humor.
I shared three funny cartoons a couple of days ago, adding to my collection of Obamacare humor (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).
Now let’s enjoy three more, beginning with this gem from Lisa Benson.
Though we shouldn’t laugh at this cartoon. As we saw with both Medicaid and Medicare, entitlement programs routinely cost far more than original projections.
If you somehow think Obamacare might be different, watch this video.
Gary Varvel hits a different part of Obamacare, noting that the President’s promise of lower premiums is an utter fantasy.
And Michael Ramirez looks at the big picture.
I want to close with an optimistic point about the prospect of changing this terrible law.
Thanks to government programs and other forms of regulation and intervention, we had a bad healthcare system before Obamacare.
And even though it was government that was causing the system to malfunction, many people blamed the free market. And the President took advantage of that misunderstanding to push he legislation.
So now we have Obamacare, which has made the system a bit more statist.
But most people think Obamacare was much bigger than it actually was, with some actually thinking we used to have a free market!
Anyway, this flawed perception works to our advantage since it will now be possible to blame any bad news in the healthcare world on Obamacare.
As such, I expect that Obamacare will remain unpopular.
The real question will be whether reformers will rally behind proposals to not just repeal Obamacare, but to actually restore a free market.
If you want to understand what needs to happen, I encourage you to watch two short videos, one from Reason TV and the other from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity.
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How can a site named International Liberty limit my freedom to get together with my buddies and forcibly vote the recalcitrant minority into my collective scheme?
To paraphrase Hillary Clinton:
This is the village. Participation is mandatory!
…it’ll be good for you and everybody. Trust me! What choice do you have anyway?
It’s too late now. The first wave of Americans is poised to rush to the subsidies in a few short months (likely myself included). And so the rest of you Americans will pay, while you still can, on your way to serfdom. American healthcare has crossed the tipping point to socialization. 2008 was the last exit to freedom on the highway to serfdom.
Beware of Greeks bearing statism.
The Trojan horse of socialized medicine floated from Europe to the US, and an enthusiastic Yankee majority tugged it past Ellis Island.
Just like virtually every single European nation before them, The American people will come to accept ObamaCare and then the inevitable path to price controls first and then eventually government procurement of health services themselves. It will become healthcare by DMV and people will just resign to that reality.
“Leave your government benefits for the much bigger prospect of perpetually compounding higher growth rates” is not something that ever wins at the voter-lemming polls. The evidence for that from Europe is conclusive.
The big picture, of course, is that having unconditional access to the same healthcare as everyone without ever having to work for it at some point in your life, is a significant demotivator that further flattens effort-reward curves. Unfortunately, dear American People, international competitiveness depends on narrow margins.
Nowhere it is written that American prosperity supremacy has to last more than a short one hundred years. The point of no return has passed. Ignore preparing an exit plan at your own peril. Go ahead, sign up for ObamaCare and break the cookie jar of American prosperity built during more “selfish” times. But keep mobile. With an effort-reward curve that now looks more and more like the rest of the world, that cookie jar will not last long. You need to have an exit plan, or you can go Greek and hope for better days when most citizens finally change their basic human nature and enthusiastically leave their families and children every morning, to go work for society at large and earn government benefits that are given to them unconditionally anyway. Europe is poised to show you how these dreams end, alas, not soon enough for you to a void stepping on the same banana peel.
PS. Of course I don’t think that we had a free market before. As I said,
American healthcare has long existed in that no-man’s land between free market capitalism and socialism. Too regulated and intervened into by the collective for capitalism and free markets to function, yet, not regulated and constrained enough to avoid rent seeking and cronyism by various interest groups who can now steer central planning in their favor.
But it is clear in what irreversible direction the American people have chosen (by virtue of their vote) to take American healthcare to escape this no-man’s land: Socialization. The path has been irreversibly set.
People are addicted to insurance. Health insurance, life insurance, car insurance, house insurance.
Then, at the least provocation, they’ll use that insurance. My sisters are aghast that I have a four year old car with only liability insurance. Oh dear, what if I have a wreck?
Well, I’ll use the money I’ve saved on not having comprehensive insurance for the past fifteen years to buy another one. Hmm…maybe health care wouldn’t be so expensive if the people who use it had some skin in the game.
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An alternative to third party payment that could operate within Obamacare:
My proposal is called “Group Self-Insurance”. Like current health insurance, members contribute a monthly amount and those amounts are pooled. Unlike insurance, members retain ownership of the contributions, while the agent running the program has no liability for medical costs.
Out of their contributions members pay: an administrative fee, their own medical costs, and shared costs of those with catastrophic costs; with the remainder applied to the next month’s contribution. Because the agent is not involved financially, recommendations on doctor and care are unbiased.
For more see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIZIXPL3HxI
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