DeMint the Demented
DeMint: Health Care Bill Is ‘Unconstitutional’ And ‘Must Be Repealed’
“This bill is unconstitutional and it cannot be fixed. It must be repealed,” said Senator DeMint. “The battle for health care freedom is not over and I will introduce legislation this week to repeal this health takeover.
“Unless this trillion-dollar assault on our freedoms is repealed, it will force Americans to purchase Washington-approved health plans or face stiff penalties. It will fund abortions, raise taxes and insurance premiums, while reducing health care choices and quality.”
“If the President and Democrats were serious about true health care reform, there were many free-market solutions we could have easily passed. Americans support commonsense reforms such as purchasing coverage across state lines, stopping frivolous medical lawsuits, and giving the same tax breaks to Americans who don’t get their insurance at work. Unfortunately, Democrats refused to listen.”</em>
Let’s see what DeMint actually means by “free market solutions”:
Purchasing coverage across state lines: Currently health insurers are bound by the laws of the state the insurance is purchased in, meaning, if you buy BCBS in Georgia, they must abide by Georgia law. What DeMint’s buddies in the for profit insurance industry want is a repeat of how businesses based all their “companies” in the Mariana Islands (a US territory, at least for business purposes) to avoid labor law. So, instead of being held to the standards of a given state, insurance companies would base all their rates, exclusions and whatall on the “laws” of a place like the Mariana Islands, laws they wrote themselves. So they could charge whatever they like, avoid paying anything they wish, etc. End result? For profit insurance companies win again.
Stopping frivolous medical lawsuits: Again, almost sounds reasonable, with a word such as “frivolous”, right? But what is actually occurring has nothing at all to do with excessive lawsuits, or high malpractice insurance, nothing like that. It has to do with trial lawyers being one of the largest contributors to Democrats historically. So, by capping “excessive” lawsuits, you actually reduce the income of trial lawyers, who then can’t contribute as much to your political foes.
Nothing voiced by the GOP in opposition to insurance reform means anything but more money in their pockets and the pockets of those who hired them to corrupt Congress. Nothing.
And as an aside, stop calling this “health care reform”. If you want to improve the health of Americans, stop using tax money to make bad food cheap. Stop subsidizing corn, HFCS, sugar and all the other trash foods that lead to diabetes and obesity. No, what occurred Sunday night was insurance reform, and sorry enough it was. There should be no private insurance in this country, and any nation that feels that the health of its citizens is a for-profit venture delegates the health of its citizens to people for whom stock price and bonuses are the sole arbiter of worth. If its more profitable to insure fewer sick people, or to ignore a legally biding contract for years until the patient dies or is bankrupt, then the greedheads of the “free market” will suck the very marrow from our bones- and then cancel our coverage when done.
In a perfect nation we would have simply extended Medicare coverage to all from birth. But since we live in a country where “The business of America is business” then we’re forever doomed to having our choices made for us by pigs with their snouts in the trough. So Demint? Keep on with the fear-mongering, maybe you’ll be able to keep the rabble riled up enough to get re-elected.
Oink goes the liar.