The House approved Republican legislation on Friday giving health insurers the option of extending plans through 2014 that would otherwise be canceled for not complying with Affordable Care Act standards.
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| Hi everybody, Stephen Molyneux from Freedom Aid Radio. | |
| It's November the 15th, 2013. | |
| So tonight, Congress passed a law allowing the insurers to extend people's insurance into next year and possibly beyond based upon what was available in the 1st of January of this year. | |
| And I really hope that Everybody is paying specific and close attention. | |
| As Bismarck said, there are two things that one does not want to ever see being made. | |
| One is sausages, the other is laws. | |
| Well, this is what is called the unmaking of the legal structure. | |
| President Obama clearly lied. | |
| They're not fools. | |
| I mean, they're corrupt as all hell, but they're not fools. | |
| And what happened was, Democrats realized that Hillary Clinton's Hillary Care from the 90s failed because people were afraid that they weren't going to be able to keep their doctors and weren't going to be able to keep their insurance plans. | |
| There was a sort of famous ad with Harold and Louise, I think it was, worrying about whether they're going to keep their doctors and insurance plans. | |
| And this is one of the main reasons why Hillary Care was such an abomination. | |
| It was never even voted for in the House. | |
| And so Democrats realized that if they So, of course, they lied. | |
| They lied and said, you'll be able to keep your doctor, you'll be able to keep your plan, when internal documents years ago pointed out that between 40 and 65% of people were going to lose Now, one of the interesting things about Obamacare is the degree to which people are revolting against it as it happens. | |
| This is astounding. | |
| This is amazing. | |
| I don't even think it's happened before where a law has been so exposed for the shallow predatory scam that it is right away. | |
| This is government without anesthesia. | |
| Now, the anesthesia that government usually has is debt. | |
| And money printing, right? | |
| Or raising taxes on people far off that you don't even know about, or having hidden taxes or hidden tariffs somewhere. | |
| But this is government without anesthetic. | |
| So Obama knows that he can't add to the deficit because he's on track by the end of his second term to have added $10 trillion in debt to the U.S., GDP. And since he started with $10 trillion worth of debt, he's going to end up with $20 trillion worth of debt, which means he's added more debt than all of the previous presidents combined. | |
| Quite an astounding feat. | |
| Yay! | |
| And so he knows that he can't do it through deficit financing. | |
| I think the Japanese and Chinese are pretty much out of patience with the U.S. spending binge. | |
| So he can't do it through that. | |
| Can he do it through printing more money? | |
| Well, no. | |
| No, they're already doing this quantitative easing and buying $85 billion worth of junk to prop up the economy. | |
| Hey, look, stocks are at an all-time high. | |
| Well, absolutely, and a depressive is at an all-time high if you inject four pounds of cocaine directly into his eyeball. | |
| But he can't do it through deficit financing. | |
| He can't do it through money printing. | |
| And there's no real room to raise taxes in the middle of a significant recession slash depression, which means that the mechanics of the forcible transfer of wealth from one section of the public to another is actually available and exposed for everyone to see. | |
| The whole point behind Obamacare is that there are people who don't take care of their health and they freak out when they get sick and they want everyone else to pay their bills. | |
| I'm sorry, I wish I could be more kind about it, but this is the basic statistics. | |
| Chronic ailments Chronic ailments consume 85% of the American healthcare budget, and the vast majority of these ailments are entirely preventable. | |
| They are the result of lifestyle choices. | |
| Obesity adds a third to American healthcare costs, and don't give me this bullshit that everybody has some sort of thyroid problem. | |
| No, people eat too much and don't exercise. | |
| Osteoporosis... | |
| And diabetes and heart disease and things, certain cancers. | |
| 70% of all medical ailments are the result of lifestyle choices. | |
| So people make crappy choices about their health. | |
| A lot of them, of course, in the public sector. | |
| One of the reasons why the public sector freaks out when anyone tries to curb their entitlements is they're generally such an unhealthy group of people that they desperately need all the medications that keep their fat asses walking around. | |
| The whole point is that people make bad choices, they get sick, and then they panic and they want everyone else to pay their medical bills. | |
| And this isn't entirely the point behind Obamacare. | |
| And so the young and healthy have to be forced to buy insurance because insurance companies can't deny pre-existing conditions, which means that people don't buy healthcare insurance until they get sick, which is like buying fire insurance after your house burns down. | |
| It's not really the point of insurance. | |
| There has to be the risk and unknown element in order for it to work. | |
| But what you're seeing is a naked, violent, vile transfer of wealth from the young and healthy to the old and sick, or at least to those who consume a lot of healthcare resources like women. | |
| And it's actually naked. | |
| It's actually out front. | |
| It's well understood now. | |
| And that's a wonderful thing to see, just how predatory laws are without the anesthetic of debt and money printing and taxes on the obscure. | |
| Now, of course, there are taxes. | |
| People selling their houses now finding that there's an Obamacare tax of three. | |
| I think 3.5% on particular kinds of houses and so on. | |
| There are tax on medical devices and so on. | |
| Of course, all of this is supposed to be revenue neutral. | |
| Because remember, there's this promise that Obama made that he was going to cut your healthcare premiums by $2,500 a year. | |
| You know, the entire history of the state is just assholes promising you something for nothing. | |
| And we are completely ridiculous as a species in that whenever assholes promise us something for nothing, we're like, yeah, sounds great. | |
| Oh, good. | |
| Where do I sign up? | |
| Yeah, those people are cheating me. | |
| Oh, you're going to cut my premiums. | |
| That means I'm being overcharged. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Come on. | |
| It's ridiculous. | |
| He doesn't have the power to lower prices directly. | |
| What he could do, or what the government could do, is, I don't know, let's say, not make it illegal to open a hospital or open an MRI clinic, right? | |
| Because you actually have to prove to the government that there's a need in the community for these things. | |
| We used to call this price price. | |
| If you can sell it, then there's actually a need for it. | |
| We could also remove licensing restrictions on certain kinds of doctors. | |
| Do you really need 10 years of medical school to pee in a cup? | |
| Oh, you need antibiotics. | |
| Of course you don't. | |
| You could actually have a vending machine do that shit for you. | |
| You could, let's see, let foreign-born doctors in who are competent to practice. | |
| You could get rid of the monopoly on prescriptions that doctors currently enjoy, which only came in as an active Congress after the Second World War. | |
| You could let nurse practitioners and midwives and other people practice and actually take care of people's health, as used to be the case, until doctors got annoyed at not being able to charge enough and got the government to restrict all kinds of entry Thank you. | |
| then you would be annoying particular constituents who have a great deal of power, and doctors might go on strike, therefore causing everyone to freak out, and blah-de-blah-de-blah. | |
| Of course, you could also let people start buying their own health care insurance again, right? | |
| The whole reason why employers buy your healthcare insurance and not, say, your car insurance is because in the Second World War, FDR forbade companies from offering raises to employees as an incentive to come and work for them, and therefore they started taking over a big cost of the employees, which was healthcare insurance, and thus it has been Since then, which is why you have no idea how much your last blood test costs, but you know exactly how much your last oil change costs. | |
| And you will negotiate on your own behalf for cheaper oil changes, but you will not negotiate for stuff that your insurance company pays for because you don't see the direct costs. | |
| So it is, of course, a surfeit of government intervention and violent control of the marketplace that has produced these kinds of disasters. | |
| And you can see very specifically what is happening now, this complete crumbling Of the rule of law that is occurring in this titanic launch directly into the iceberg of the Obamacare initiative, where the president is now basically saying, because you can't change the law, only Congress can change the law, and of course, when the Republicans were fighting to oppose the bill or to defund the bill after it was passed by the Supreme Court or approved by the Supreme Court, Obama said, it is the law of the land, it cannot be changed. | |
| Oh, wait, what? | |
| Oh, people are complaining? | |
| Okay, we'll change it. | |
| Oh, I can't change it? | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| Well, I will just encourage people not to enforce the law that says you have to go and buy these terrible premiums. | |
| Because remember, they call them junk premiums. | |
| Because if you want something that is cheap, like if you are, say, a 60-year-old man and you're not particularly interested in maternity benefits, well, that's junk, you see. | |
| The point of the government is to force you to buy what you don't need so that you can replace the absent fathers for the single moms to pay for stuff that they have incurred, pay for costs they've incurred as a result of not keeping their damn legs closed. | |
| So you also see nobody is praising the Republicans for the stand that they took against this, and James O'Keefe has got some very interesting videos showing the intense corruption of all the ex-ACORN members who are now Obamacare navigators. | |
| Let me navigate you into the very jaws of hell itself. | |
| Where they're regularly counseling people to lie, to break the law, to evade taxes, sorry, to evade putting anything down which might increase their premiums or not get them a big enough subsidy. | |
| And so you just see a general collapse of the rule of law now. | |
| Government by fear. | |
| Government by panic. | |
| This is late Weimar Republic. | |
| And by God, people out there, you've got to start growing a spine about this kind of stuff. |