(November 17, 2014 at 9:53 pm)Aractus Wrote: Your claim was that he's "giving money to insurance companies" - how? I've not seen you defend this at all, as far as I know about the policy it is legislative, not budgetary. It aims to improve market conditions, not to increase government spending (although the increased spending is, as I've mentioned several times now, unavoidable).
Suppose I am a producer of Vegimite. I lobby my government to pass a law that says every citizen must buy my Vegimite or pay a stiff tax. To help the poor, taxes will be raised to give poor people subsidies to buy Vegimite. Now did they do this because Vegimite is good for citizens or did they do it because they were bought off by me to do it?
The lefties have good intentions. The problem with the lefties is they alley themselves with people who want to use their good intentions to pass laws for personal gain. The rank and file lefties are too stupid to see it.
Health Insurance is not healthcare. If you want people to have access to affordable healthcare...the solution is to produce affordable healthcare. Subsidizing unaffordable health care does not solve the problem.
