Health care reform law a smokescreen

Backers and pushers of the new health care reform law are touting this legislation as an historic, landmark triumph for consumer protection and fairness. They laud it as though it is the next best thing since sliced bread.
And yet, the new law that left-wing progressives are so enthusiastic about now is a mere shadow of the reform bill originally proposed in either the House or the Senate by the same leftist leadership. Initially, the law appears to give more business to insurance companies, which have historically been a bane to the leftist existence. It would not seem to punish the insurance companies as the left-wing has been trying to do for years.
But look a little bit closer into the legislation, and one can see exactly why the left is so excited about the new reform law.
Most of the law’s supporters are the same ones who insisted on a public option. Well, this law doesn’t offer that, and yet somehow it is heralded as a great triumph.
One would assume that those wanting government-paid universal health care have got to be sorely disappointed with this law. But alas, they are among the revelers.
Why? The answer is because, eventually, its provisions and mandates will result in government-funded health care anyway.
Consider that the new health care law now requires insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions. As such, additional cost is going to be incurred by insurance companies, which also will be unable to pass that cost onto their policyholders through higher premiums. In other words, insurance companies are being forced to eat these new costs.
Eventually, the profit-cost ratio—also known as the profit margin—is going to shrink to such narrow margins that insurance companies will be flirting with red ink more than they will black. And as demand for services continues to rise—as has been the trend for the past few decades—the cost burden will increase; meaning even higher costs to insurance companies.
It is not far-fetched to expect that, in the near future, insurance companies will begin operating in the red instead of in the black, thereby incurring more loss than profit. What may well result is an industry crisis not unlike the one currently being experienced by automobile manufacturing and financial credit: Too much owed and not enough money to pay for the debt. The end result will be bankruptcies.
When that happens, insurance companies will come groveling at the feet of Congress to beg for bail-out money. The government, of course, will hand over the cash along with its many strings attached; including de facto ownership of companies being bailed out.
Make no mistake: This is exactly what the new health care reform law is meant to do. It was designed to set the stage for an eventual government takeover of the health insurance business. And when government controls the purse strings, it shall control the entire health care industry.
That’s what the left-wing reformists really want: Government-run and government-funded universal health care like the kind that Canada and much of Europe have. The leftist progressives really believe universal health care to be the cat’s meow, the bee’s knees, and the answer to all of our health care ills (pun intended).
But they were unsuccessful in pushing this agenda directly through the front door of the American people; so they’ve settled for the backdoor approach, hoping to get what they want anyway without the consent of the people. They are hoping that the provisions and mandates contained in this new law will cause things to just go their way through a natural course of events; a chain reaction.
The burning question in my mind, though, is that if European style universal health care is so great, then why isn’t it leading the world in research and development, technology, and delivery of services? Why, in fact, has the world been led in overall health care quality and quantity by the free enterprise system of the United States of America, and not a socialist system providing universal health care to its citizens?
Unfortunately, leftist reformers aren’t interested in quality, quantity or even access to health care. They say different, but their motivations give them away.
What motivates our left-wing progressive leaders is the potential to expand their own power by seizing control over more of America via the federal government. Progressive followers just want more government; that’s what matters to them, because they believe government has the answers to all of a nation’s problems.
Whether or not the current approach is a success or a failure matters less to the progressive leadership than the drive for secondary monetary gain, power and control over peoples’ lives.
That is the Marxist way. It is the socialist way. And it is also the left-wing progressive way.
What really concerns me is that they may just get what they are after.