Imagine it is 1663, and you want to buy a dodo. You are legally allowed to buy a dodo. There is no Dutch law against the purchase of dodos on their native island of Mauritius. If you have money, and you find a willing seller, you can buy his dodo. You could even legally buy two. You could buy three or four. The Dutch government has announced that it wont even try to stop you. But there IS a problem with this great opportunity: there arent any dodos left. Dutch settlers spent several decades catching and eating all the dodos. So by 1663, there were none left. Being legally allowed by the Dutch government to buy them wont change that fact. No matter how much you may want a dodo, they arent available. And yet, imagine the Dutch government proudly trumpeting the fact that theyve lifted the endangered species policy against buying them on the open market. If it were to happen, theyd be laughed off the stage. Because everybody on earth knows two things: That the dodo is extinct, and that it was the Dutch who caused it to BECOME extinct. Fast forward to 2013. BHO and the Democrats passed a bill specifically designed to destroy the health insurance market. It forced insurers to cancel their existing plans, so that their customers would have to buy new policies from the government, usually much more expensive, providing less coverage. The bill has already killed many millions of plans, and will kill many million more before its fully implemented. These plans have ceased to exist; BHO and his peons have destroyed them. They are no longer available for purchase, even if they are allowed by law. So now BHO says that he has cordially decided to come down from Mt Olympus for a moment, for just long enough to sign an edict legalizing the plans that he previously banned, the plans that have been on the books for three years as becoming illegal on Jan 1, 2014. He now says he wont make them illegal until Jan 1, 2015 instead. What does that do to the market? Does that REALLY make these plans available for another year, undoing the millions and millions of cancellation notices that have been sent out over the past six months? No. Because theyve already been phased out. They are no longer economically viable for most of the insurance companies to offer. This isnt like a lawnmowing service that you can just hire or fire at will; insurance plans are - by definition - dependent on a large marketplace to share the risks and costs. BHO and his allies have already so severely warped that marketplace, most companies that COULD offer good plans before, no longer can for just a single year. So what is BHOs offer to legalize these plans again, however temporarily? Its nothing. Its a hollow offer. For the most part, its the legalization of the impossible. Its saying you may go ahead and buy as many dodos as you want, knowing full well that all the dodos have already been rendered extinct. Its deceit. Its dishonesty write large, as only an all-powerful statist can do. John F. Di Leo
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:27:10 +0000
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