8. “Those of us with health insurance are also paying a hidden and growing tax for those without it — about $1,000 per year that pays for somebody else’s emergency room and charitable care.” That number comes from a left-wing advocacy group. A Kaiser Family Foundation study debunked the group’s analysis, reaching an estimate closer to $200 per year for a family. The CBO report mentioned above reached the same conclusion.
I get that Obama is lying or ill-informed here- but I don't get why he thinks this is a convincing argument. He LIKES wealth redistribution. It's his goal.
If his health care plan is to be pass, we will all be paying far more for insurance for everybody, including for people who are perfectly happy with their insurance now but who will not get to keep it when the government puts their provider out of business, including illegal aliens, including women who want abortions regardless of cause, including the several million now who could afford health insurance but choose not to buy it or, in many cases, apply for it because they don't want to apply for Medicare.
The argument the Democrats usually make is that it's selfish not to want to pay more, that we should all be unselfish and generous enough to pay for others (even though as a group they don't actually do this themselves, personally, - as numerous studies have shown, while conservatives give far more to charity).
The whole point of the Welfare State is that those of us who supposedly 'have' pay increasingly greater amounts for those of us who have not- and it's disingenuous of the President to pretend otherwise as he does with this argument. Pin It
