Healthcare to Be Provided via DMV
Take it literally when you hear patriots who object to our socialist rulers seizing control of the healthcare sector ask, “Would you want to get your medical care from the DMV?”
The most revelatory passage in the so-called “plain English” version of the health care bill that the Senate Finance Committee approved on Tuesday (without ever drafting the actual legislative language) says that in the future Americans will be offered the convenience of getting their health insurance at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
This is no joke. If this bill becomes law, it will be the duty of the U.S. secretary of health and human services or the state governments overseeing federally mandated health-insurance exchanges to ensure that you can get your health insurance at the DMV. …
What will the DMV and health care have in common if this bill is enacted? Government will control both.
Whether Big Government nationalizes medical insurance Hugo Chavez style with the “public option,” or uses taxes, subsidies, and regulations to effect the same purpose, is like distinguishing between communism and fascism. Under either system, progressive bureaucrats have a foot on your throat.
An employer that decides not to provide health insurance for its workers will be required to pay a fee to the government for each of its workers that receives a federal subsidy. But the total paid to the government by any employer will be capped at $400 times the total number of that employer’s workers.
Even though this fee will not be tax deductible, it will be far cheaper for a business to pay the government $400 per worker than to pay a private insurance company thousands per worker for an insurance plan.
The Finance Committee has created an irresistible incentive for American businesses to drop their workers off at the DMV where they can enroll in government-funded, government-approved, government-regulated health insurance plans.
But technically, there will be a “choice.” Cass Sunstein, Obama’s lunatic Regulatory Czar, calls this “nudging.” Others would call it coercion.
On a tip from Anonymous Countermoonbat. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.
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Posted by Van Helsing on October 15, 2009 12:11 pm
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DMV= Cesspool of idiocy, lunacy and waste.
Perhaps this is being done to make it easier to tax us for CO2 emissions. Be sure not to eat beans before going to the DMV.