December, 2019, The Unfolding Disaster That Is Obama Care: The Stupidity and Gross Reality Of Medicare For All

Every month for years now we have had to discuss how bad Obama Care is turning out to be under the continuing theme, “the unfolding disaster that is Obama Care.” This month is no different. As the legislation continues to march through America, driving up health care and health insurance prices as it serves as dead weight on economic growth, it cements its rightful place as the worst piece of legislation Washington has ever produced.

It never had a chance to be successful since it really never addressed the underlying root causes of our ever increasing health costs in the country:

• Americans eat too much of the wrong kind of food, resulting in obscenely high obesity rates for the country.
• Our food chain is infested with overdoses of high fructose corn syrup, salt, sugar, and other unhealthy additives.
• Americans smoke too much.
• Americans do not exercise enough.
• The country is in serious need of health care tort reform.
• Barriers to insurance company competition across state lines need to come down.
• Obama Care never “followed the money” to find out who is actually profiting from the ever escalating healthcare costs in this country and how to get those factors under control.
• Obama Care never got the immense amount of fraud and abuse in current government healthcare programs, Medicare and Medicaid, under control in order to save money to efficiently fund other government health care initiatives.
• Obama Care never put serious research money towards curing the major diseases that drive high healthcare costs such as high frequency cancers and dementia type diseases.

You cannot resolve any problem unless you understand and address the underlying root causes. No difference here: Obama Care legislation never addressed these listed root causes and thus, has no chance of ever being successful.

But it is not just missing the root causes of our healthcare costs that makes Obama Care so horrible. It resulted in millions of Americans losing access to their favored doctors, hospitals, and insurance policies. It has caused insurance premiums, deductibles and copays to escalate substantially. It will likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt. It has exposed millions of Americans to higher than necessary identity theft chances. It has created government bureaucracies that are wastefully spending taxpayer wealth and being exploited by criminal elements. It has stifled economic growth and job creation.

These are just a sample of the types of idiocy that we have been reviewing for the past several years in this blog relative to Obama Care. To read those past posts, just enter the phrase, “the unfolding disaster,” in the search box above.

When we started this theme many years ago, it was all about the failure that is Obama Care. Over time, many of the failures that we predicted or other smart people predicted became true. Obama Care did not reduce annual health insurance premiums by up to $2,500 as promised. Obama Care did not bend the cost curve of health care as promised. Obama Care did not get insurance for over 21 million Americans as promised. And Obama Care did not allow you to keep your doctors, your hospitals or insurance plans as promised.

But with the failure of Obama Care has come a much worse idea, “Medicare For All.” Thus, most of these types of posts going forward will focus on this inane idea since the previous big healthcare inane idea, Obama Care, has basically collapsed in failure.

1) Let’s start today’s discussion with one of the biggest advocates of Medicare For All, Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren. At a recent political rally in North Carolina, Warren promised that her Medicare For All program will provide health care and health insurance for millions and millions of illegal immigrants.

At the rally Warren was asked by someone: “We know that you have included undocumented people in your plans to provide Medicare for All, so my question is why did you decide to include people regardless of immigration status, and would this include obtaining subsidies like the ACA’s – Affordable Care Act’s – affordability subsidies? Would you also support access to the children’s health insurance program without regard to immigration stuff?” 

To which Warren answered: “I’m really glad you asked this. Medicare for All, as I put this together, covers everyone, regardless of immigration status, and that’s it.” 

So:

• Warren wants to take taxpayer wealth from hard working American citizens to subsidize the healthcare of illegal immigrants.
• Warren wants to take taxpayer wealth from hard working American citizens to subsidize the healthcare of illegal immigrants even though millions of American citizens cannot afford health care today.
• Warren wants to take taxpayer wealth from hard working American citizens to subsidize the healthcare of illegal immigrants even though millions of Americans are homeless, hungry, or drug addicted and not getting support to help their needs.

Just another example of a leading liberal in this country who values illegal immigrants over legal, taxpaying, and needy Americans.

2) We have often documented how bad health care is in some foreign countries, e.g. England and Canada, countries that basically have implemented similar programs to “Medicare For All.” High costs, long wait times, inferior treatment, spotty coverage, etc. are all consequences of having the government run all of a country’s health care processes. James Schmitz, writing for the Heritage Foundation on November 21, 2019, recounted his own horror stories of dealing with “Medicare For All” type programs overseas:

• When he was very young, Mr. Schmitz suffered a hellacious fit and spasm that required him to be rushed to the hospital.
• He was rushed into a CT scanner that night and afterwards a neurologist told his parents that their small child had West Syndrome.
• This syndrome is a severe form of epilepsy and his parents were told that he had about a 90% chance that their son would never be able to speak, walk, eat, or think, there is no cure.
• He was treated almost immediately with Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) which may have been the reason why he defied the odds and according to him, “I found myself in the top 1 percentile of people with West syndrome who could enjoy a mostly normal life. Thanks to the top-notch medical treatment I’ve received in America, I can do most of the things the neurologist predicted I wouldn’t be able to.”
• Flash forward many years ahead and Mr. Schmitz is a college graduate and living in England.
• Although he was living a mostly normal life he still needs anti-seizure drugs and visits to a doctor every three months.
• He also needs access to a doctor within a week’s notice if needed.
• So imagine his surprise and fear when he walked into an urgent care clinic in England, expecting to easily set up an appointment with a local neurologist within a few weeks.
• The general practitioner working in the clinic said she would be glad to set up an appointment with a recommended neurologist but that it would be for about nine months out.
• When Schmitz panicked, the urgent care doctor said she could make a call and possibly, possibly see if an appointment could be made for three to four months out.
• At that point, his dream of living, working, and traveling throughout Europe had come to an end: “Disheartened by the news, I knew staying in the U.K. was out of the question. I had to return to the U.S. in order to keep accessing the routine medical care that had saved my life so many years before. A month later, I packed my bags and left for Heathrow Airport having spent less than three months in the country. It’s a shame, because Britain is an amazing country and I would have loved to stay longer. Health care should not be a reason to have to leave a modern, First World country. I cannot go a day without taking medicine or without knowing if I’ll be able to see my doctor in a timely manner. My life is only made possible by the high-quality care and access I get in the United States. It’s something other countries don’t enjoy.”

This is what nationalized medicine and Medicare For All means: you will have less access to medical treatment, less access to specialized doctors, you will experience more pain and stress, and the overall cost will be higher. Higher, costs lower quality, less access, not a great combination. And somehow, people like Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and others think this is a good idea. Insanity.

3) The Heritage Article cited above went on to lay some realities about nationalized medicine:

• On average, in England and Canada sick people wait twice as long vs. the U.S. to see a specialist, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association.
• We have discussed other studies which estimate that the wait time in England and Canada is much longer than twice as long.
• Nearly 1.8 million people in England are currently sick and ailing but are on a long waiting list to get admitted to a hospital for treatment or for outpatient treatment.
• Tens of thousands of foreigners come to the U.S. every year for medical treatment since the wait time to get treated in their home countries is just way too long, too painful, and too agonizing.

One reason why people like Warren and Sanders are so high on Medicare For All is that they know that they will write the legislation so that they personally do not suffer from the poor and expensive healthcare that will result in this country. They will take care of themselves, much like they did for Obama Care and every other aspects of life, and we will be sicker, more pained, and poorer for their ideas.

Thus, the stupidity of Medicare For All and the stupidity of making taxpaying real Americans pay the medical bills of illegal immigrants. Did no one learn anything from the failure of Obama Care?

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