How Stupid Can Americans be? Obamacare.

I'm watching Greta, and the crawl at the bottom contains Obama's taunt that the unifying principle of Republicans is to deny 30 million people health care.

 

Now, I watched the President's press conference live.  I noticed the illicit substitution in his argument the moment he made it, but NO ONE ELSE, NOT ONE JOURNALIST, picked it up or has made note of it since. (Either they think Obama is illiterate and don't want to say it, or they are!)

 

He was talking about the provision of health care insurance and then said that Republicans want to deny health care.  NO!!  They would want to deny health care insurance.  There is a difference between health care and health care insurance.  Smart people would rather have health care than health care insurance.  It is the difference between cash in hand and an IOU.

 

Nobody has picked up on this!!

 

To deny the free provision of health care insurance is not the same as to deny the provision of free health care, which Americans (and illegals) already enjoy to a certain extent.

 

When the entire political class and the entire journalistic class can't pick up these vital distinctions and illicit substitutions in argument, it is no wonder Obama gets to exist in an intellectual twilight zone.

 

To the taunt that Republicans want to deny people health care insurance, the retort is that Republicans refuse to force health care insurance on those who don't want it, don't need it, can't afford it.  In addition, this new insurance scheme may not be able to deliver the health care it promises!!!

 

Why??

 

Because doctors won't accept lower pay and more work.  They will select patients who will pay more than medicare and more than Obamacare minimalist policies.  They won't accept new patients.  So where are the 30 or 45 million new insureds going to get health care with their precious new policies? Mexico?

 

That's the distinction between health care and health care insurance.  Smart people would rather have health care than health care insurance, and Obama is offering insurance and saying the other side wants to deny you health care.

 

The iron law of politics is that the people get the government they deserve.

 

Does America deserve Obama?  I rather think so!!