No Bailout Bails Out Both Parties

[Flanders]

The insurance industry first made a move on the public purse with HillaryCare in 1993. That was the Hillary Clinton Task Force’s best-kept secret at the time.

Now, listen to the video to hear Charles Krauthammer say something the media covered up before and after the law was passed “. . . these giant insurers who were in on the construction of this whole Obamacare scheme.”

Krauthammer goes on to explain why no bailout is the way to go:

Megyn Kelly | The Kelly File | Fox News

The fear is that Republicans are so gun shy they will rollover if Democrats can somehow tie it to a government shutdown. And let’s not forget that Karl Rove’s Republicans are not that keen on getting rid of HillaryCare II if they can avoid the blame for keeping it.

Here’s the kind of bipartisanship Congress should engage in more often:

Democrats are rightly getting all of the blame for passing the law. Republicans will get all of the blame for keeping the law. NO BAILOUT FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES, as Krauthammer laid it out, is the way to go for both sides.

By the way, should Congress actually debate “NO BAILOUT” somebody should ask Steny Hoyer this question: “How does enriching insurance companies promote the general welfare?”

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the individual health insurance mandates included in every health reform bill, which require Americans to have insurance, were “like paying taxes.” He added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.”

Hoyer Says Constitution’s ‘General Welfare’ Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance
October 21, 2009
By Matt COVER

Hoyer Says Constitution?s ?General Welfare? Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance | CNS News​

Somebody might also ask Chief Justice John Roberts if a bailout is a tax?

 

[Flanders]

All things considered, the Clintons would be better off if the insurance industry does not get a bailout à la Krauthammer’s blueprint. I don’t know how much clout the Clintons have with congressional Democrats at this point, but as long as HillaryCare II is on the books Hillary Clinton is married to it.

Hillary Clinton is also married to four dead Americans in Benghazi. Right from the start the MSM covered for her. It all reminded me of Al Jolson (1886 - 1950):

“You ain’t heard nothin’ yet.”

Jolson said it in the first talking picture (1927) and Democrat liars have been repeating it ever since. I only wish Democrats would give us a song along with the lies.

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The lies told about the attack on Benghazi can only hurt Hillary if the story stays in the news. The recent article in the NYT did just that for a few days. It won’t last much longer.

While the ridiculous article about Benghazi neither helped nor hurt Hillary Clinton in the long-term the NY Times ended up looking like a lady of loose virtue. Notice that Howard Kurtz —— who now has his own show on FOX —— defends the NY Times:

Bill O'Reilly: The straight story about the murders in Benghazi | Talking Points | The O'Reilly Factor | Fox News

Bill O’Reilly’s accurate talking points memo notwithstanding, I don’t see how “ethical journalists” expressing round-the clock outrage turns the Old Gray Lady from a call girl into a streetwalker. A tart is a tart regardless of where she turns tricks. No matter. The story itself is only the beginning of the dreary chatter coming the public’s way from now until November 2016. First to hide HillaryCare II in the basement before this November. Second, to bury HillaryCare II, and Benghazi, under a mountain of minutia before the primaries begin in 2016. In short: You ain’t heard nothin’ yet.

 

[Truthmatters]

take them out of equation

single payer

 

[Flanders]

take them out of equation

single payer

To Truthmatters: Possible, and all the more reason for conservatives to concentrate on repeal.

 

[Flanders]

Like I said long before HillaryCare II was passed it was always about enriching the insurance companies. You can triple any number the government puts out today:

Waste: Lawmakers have learned that ObamaCare could end up overpaying insurance subsidies by as much as $152 billion.

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But the administration has already made vast changes to the law. It delayed the employer mandate, neutered much of the individual mandate, put off cuts to Medicare Advantage, promised bigger insurance industry bailouts and so on. All of these had the effect of raising the net cost of ObamaCare.

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President Obama has made so many ad hoc changes, in fact, that the CBO finally gave up even pretending it can predict how ObamaCare will affect the deficit.

ObamaCare's Looming Subsidy Overpayment Crisis
Thu, Jun 12 2014

ObamaCare Could Overpay $152 Billion In Subsidies - Investors.com​