{"id":11939,"date":"2009-06-24T06:10:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T11:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=11939"},"modified":"2009-06-24T06:10:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T11:10:04","slug":"reich-why-we-need-to-raise-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=11939","title":{"rendered":"Reich: Why we need to raise taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Reich, that little-bitty fella from the Clinton Administration, has an editorial in the Wall Street Journal this morning entitled “Why We Need a Public Health-Care Plan<\/a>“. Unfortunately, Reich doesn’t mention a single reason about why we need a public health-care plan – instead he rambles on about why we need to raise taxes so there can be a public health care plan. But, Reich is a big government guy what should we expect?<\/p>\n

The biggest lie in his piece is this line;<\/p>\n

Critics say the public option is really a Trojan horse for a government takeover of all of health insurance. But nothing could be further from the truth. It’s an option. No one has to choose it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s right that no one has to choose the government plan for their family, but no one has a choice to opt out of paying for it, do they? Talk about a Trojan Horse. Obama has used the same line continuously. It’s like the folks who pay for social security benefits they’ll never receive. Just like social security, the health care plan will depend on financing from people who’ll never see a return on their money.<\/p>\n

Another joke line from Reich;<\/p>\n

The public plan would merely force profit-making private plans to take whatever steps were necessary to become more competitive. Once again, that’s a plus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, government is great source of competition. Like the Post Office versus UPS and FedEx. When the Post Office loses money, they impose restrictions on UPS and FedEx so the government can be more competitive with the public sector. How does that benefit the consumer? It doesn’t, in fact it usually hurts the consumer.<\/p>\n

As a practical matter, the choice people make between private plans and a public one is likely to function as a check on both. Such competition will encourage private plans to do better — offering more value at less cost. At the same time, it will encourage the public plan to be as flexible as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyone who has ever been under military of veterans care can attest as to how “flexible” the government can be. Here’s an example of the efficiency of military health care. I had an appointment on the fifth floor of Walter Reed to get ready for surgery. A week later, I had another appointment on the sixth floor that they called a “pre-op” appointment. The second appointment was for the sole purpose of me taking my paper work from the fifth floor to the sixth floor in the age of computer networks. That’s efficiency, boy.<\/p>\n

Here’s the part I don’t get – this administration tried to force veterans with service-connected disabilities to get health insurance<\/a> to reimburse the government for their care. The President was adamant about it and said he needed the $540 billion that would generate, and that was just for the small portion of veterans that have service-connected disabilities. How in hell does he figure he can afford health care for the whole country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Reich, that little-bitty fella from the Clinton Administration, has an editorial in the Wall Street … Reich: Why we need to raise taxes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}