Thursday, March 18, 2010

Ann Coulter Gives Her One-Page Treatise On Healthcare Reform


WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE HERE IN THE LAND OF THE BARELY, STILL, ALMOST FREE? ANN WRITES DEFLY AT HUMAN EVENTS:

LIBERALS KEEP COMPLAINING that Republicans don't have a plan for reforming health care in America. I have a plan!

It's a one-page bill creating a free market in health insurance. Let's all pause here for a moment so liberals can Google the term "free market."

Nearly every problem with health care in this country – apart from trial lawyers and out-of-date magazines in doctors' waiting rooms – would be solved by my plan.
In the first sentence, Congress will amend the McCarran-Ferguson Act to allow interstate competition in health
insurance.

We can't have a free market in health insurance until Congress eliminates the antitrust exemption protecting health insurance companies from competition. If Democrats really wanted to punish insurance companies, which they manifestly do not, they'd make insurers compete.
The very next sentence of my bill provides that the exclusive regulator of
insurance companies will be the state where the company's home office is. Every insurance company in the country would incorporate in the state with the fewest government mandates, just as most corporations are based in Delaware today.

That's the only way to bypass idiotic state mandates, requiring all insurance plans offered in the state to cover, for example, the Zone Diet, sex-change operations and whatever it is that poor Heidi Montag has done to herself this week.

President Obama says we need national health care because Natoma Canfield of Ohio had to drop her insurance when she couldn't afford the $6,700 premiums, and now she's got cancer.
Much as I admire Obama's use of terminally ill human beings as political props, let me point out here that perhaps Natoma could have afforded insurance had she not been required by Ohio's state insurance mandates to purchase a plan that covers infertility treatments and unlimited ob/gyn visits, among other things.


It sounds like Natoma could have used a plan that covered only the basics – you know, things like cancer.

The third sentence of my bill would prohibit the federal government from regulating insurance companies, except for normal laws and regulations that apply to all companies.
Freed from onerous state and federal mandates turning insurance companies into public utilities, insurers would be allowed to offer a whole smorgasbord of insurance plans, finally giving consumers a choice.


Instead of Harry Reid deciding whether your insurance plan covers Viagra, this decision would be made by you, the consumer. (I apologize for using the terms "Harry Reid" and "Viagra" in the same sentence. I promise that won't happen again.)

Read it all at Human Events. Could anyone have said it better?

It's really true. Liberals complain that conservatives don't offer any healthcare reform plans. It's utterly ridiculous, as Ann points out. Conservatives do offer plans and have been beating the drums for months. Problem is it's so simple, short, powerful, uncomplicated, flexible and right-on that complicated, liberal elite thinkers simply dismiss it as nothing. It's simply not the case.

6 comments:

  1. Obama’s historic health overhaul legislation would cut 130 billion dollars from the US budget deficit through 2019, according to figures provided by the independent Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The CBO found that the plan would extend health coverage to some 32 million Americans who currently lack it.

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  2. Those numbers are suspect to say the least. You're probably too young, but that's what they said about TennCare to get it passed---it would save taxpayers tons of money....of course TennCare after only a decade was so swollen and over-budget that it threated to bring down---close---all of state government.

    You do remember that our Democratic governor, Phil Bredesen, after dealing with TennCare is staunchly against Obamacare and says he wishes all Congressmen in DC could come down and see what a hell hole it's been for our state....

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  3. Not only that, but the CBO says this about their own figures:

    “Although CBO completed a preliminary review of legislative language prior to its release, the agency has not thoroughly examined the reconciliation proposal to verify its consistency with the previous draft. This estimate is therefore preliminary, pending a review of the language of the reconciliation proposal, as well as further review and refinement of the budgetary projections.”

    Link here:
    http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/113xx/doc11355/hr4872.pdf

    In other words, they are trying to put numbers to a moving target that changes by the minute.

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  4. Couldn't help but love one of her final paragraphs...

    "In addition to saving taxpayer money and providing better health insurance, my plan also saves trees by being 2,199 pages shorter than the Democrats' plan".

    That should make it possible to actually read the bill before voting on it, as opposed to "We have to pass this bill so you can see what's in it!".

    (Where the Hell is Monty Python when we really need then?)

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  5. Thanks Fraydna and Paul. I want to say that in my life, except for Jack Kennedy's assasination, I truly have never seen our government in such disarray and D.C. in such pandemonium.

    Here is a link to TN. Governor Phil Bredesen's letter to Sen. Corker (R) and (retiring) Rep. Bart Gordon (D) last fall:

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2010/mar/18/dem-tennessee-gov-obamacare-will-hurt-our-state/

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  6. and don't forget Romneycare in Mass.

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