The Big Lie: Obamacare

In fact, he didn't just support it.  He believes it.  He believes government is the solution to great societal problems like healthcare.  And he believes Obamacare will right the wrongs with our healthcare system.  That is the big lie.  It will not.  We have the problems with healthcare because of government interference.  Government is the problem, not the solution.

Here in Central Florida, we see the first fruits of Healthcare Reform in the shootout between United Healthcare and Florida Hospital System.  The two organizations have not come to an agreement on their contract.  Thousands of United Healthcare clients have been notified that next month their insurance will not pay for services at the Florida Hospital System.  Remember Obama's promise:  if you like your insurance you can keep it.  Well, do you really want to keep your insurance if your insurance won't pay YOUR doctors or hospital services?  Of course not!   So what is the issue?  Money is the issue.  Money will be the issue from now on and the issue will get worse and worse as Obamacare is implemented.

You see what Obamacare really does is pit one group against another group.  The government gets to stay in the background.  The politicians get to look Congressional and go to events like Hob Nobs.  But what you are not seeing is that these politicians have created these problems. Healthcare is not a problem you created.  It is not a problem that healthcare created.  It is not even a problem that the insurance companies created.  It is 100% created by politicians.  They have broken market forces and arbitrarily demanded that good people deliver healthcare services in ways that cannot be properly funded or managed appropriately.  When you mess with the market, you get unintended consequences.  May I remind you of what happened in the housing market?  I am referring to the push from our politicians to have banks give mortgages to people who could not really afford them.  Bizarre things started to happen and the end result was the financial meltdown of 2008.

The same thing will happen in healthcare.  We don't know when or how the meltdown will occur but it will occur.  And then the politicians will blame the healthcare industry for failing.  We know TODAY that the largest government healthcare program, Medicare, is filled with BILLIONS of dollars of fraud.  We cannot even manage what we have had for over 40 years.  Yet, we are now going to have Washington take over the rest of healthcare.

In a free market, United Healthcare and Florida Hospital would design the services their customers want.  They would negotiate the costs for those services.  United Healthcare would be free to package these services and the payments as they chose to do this.  Florida Hospital would be free to design their programs to meet United Healthcare's wishes.  When you have your own business, you know "the customer is always right."  Now that doesn't mean the customer doesn't pay; but what the customer wants drives what you deliver.   If you can't deliver, then the customer will go elsewhere.  Unfortunately in healthcare, the government is now the customer.  We are no longer the customers.  Our insurance company is not the customer.  And in actuality, it is our politicians who are the customers.

Now doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy knowing that Alan Grayson gets to decide what your healthcare will be and what you will pay for it?  Maybe that is why 96 people voted for Alan Grayson.