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Healthcare 101

I'll try to make this real clear and simple.

1/6 of the US population are illegal immigrants.

50,000,000 people.

1/5 of those have 3 kids or more born at US hospitals
That's 30,000,000 children.

The average birth procedure costs a hospital $4,000.

That's $120,000,000,000 (120 billion) incurred over the past 15-20 years.

That 120 billion was passed on to insurance companies by shifting costs and doing expensive tests and procedures like MRIs,mammograms, chemotherapy and much, much,more even when not necessary.

The insurance companies passed that 120 billion to consumers in the form of higher rates and reducing coverage.

It's been a shell game of passing costs around. It ends up that there is no free births or healthcare. Someone pays. In this case the insured pay. And that was only the "Birth" costs incurred for illegal immigrants. Add in all the other treatment and the figure skyrockets from the billions into the TRILLIONS over the past 20 years.

"Free" healthcare for 50 million people is damn expensive.

So that explains the current insurance industry.

Enter the ACA.

The ACA will not cover more people. In fact, the main people who gain coverage will be those who were already treated by the hospitals for free and those who have pre-existing conditions.

The rest, the healthy people, will be paying more and getting less in a government approved plan that restricts the quality of their healthcare.

THEY WILL BE GETTING LESS AND PAYING MORE.

Like getting an Edsel and paying Cadillac prices for it. It will offer all sorts of unused items that bilk them of their money. Prenatal care for seniors, menopause therapy for men and other scam ways they can force people to pay more for stuff they can't use and don't need.

ACA health plans are the equivalent of a car dealer selling air conditioned convertibles to Eskimos or furnaces to people in the Sahara. And this is done simply to force these people to pay more to cover the currently uninsured.

It's another wealth distribution scheme and like all such schemes it is destined to fail.

The people will refuse to pay the hikes. One couples rates have been jacked from 400 to 1250 a month. Millions simply will not be able to pay and will pay the fine instead and go without coverage.

The result? MILLIONS without ANY insurance that were insured before and a system that can't afford to pay the insurance companies. But the ACA act has a clause that says insurance companies that lose money (as all will) will be reimbursed (bailed out) by the government.

So the insurance industry will become more corrupt than ever and learn to feed off the government bailouts. They will cook the numbers like any sleazy government contractor and the Fed will pony over taxpayer money.

So all this inefficiency leads to less people covered, crappier healthcare, a two-tier system, and permanently dependent insurance industries in bed with the government.

It's so unbelievably stupid. You can't socialize the medicine in a nation that has no control of its borders. You can't give healthcare to the very ill and not rob that healthcare from someone else.

This is just another way the economy can be destroyed and America can be ruined. And the morons or maroons are those who never learn from history and are averse to self-responsibility because they are, almost always, societal screw ups that are parasitic on everyone else.

The best part? Millions that lose their coverage will be the idiots who voted in Obama. This glorious public collapse will lead to a whole generation that understand that liberals are just liars who will cost them more and don't really give a crap about anyone but themselves. A new generation of conservatives and libertarians will rise from the ashes of this total US healthcare disaster.

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