Capps Votes Against Repeal of Health-Care Reform

» AN50 on 07.11.12 @ 04:18 PM

Uh, Lois, jump starting the economy is why your colleagues are trying to repeal this horrendous abomination of law. Trying to provide a new level of service when our economy is trillions under water, some 80% of the economic activity is net value consuming and we have spent the last 4 decades borrowing what ever we have now, is in a word, stupid.

If you were really interested in the economy, building it up so we could pay down our debts and afford to provide better health care for all you would repeal ACA too and stop putting the damned cart before the horse. Earn those benefits Lois. Stop printing money, borrowing from the Chinese and trying to suck the life blood out of hard working successful people to fund your pet pandering projects.

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» GeeWillikersWally on 07.12.12 @ 04:52 AM

Of course reform of health coverage is a “pet pandering project” to Professor Know It All. To millions of average Americans, who are denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions, this measure can mean the difference between life and death.
  Notice that the latest grandstanding vote by the House to eliminate coverage to these folks had no alternative proposal. This retrograde House majority is just a bunch of nefarious , Neanderthals who cant even come up with a viable alternative proposal to bring to the floor.

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» citizenSB on 07.12.12 @ 06:58 PM

Lois has never voted anything but the democratic party line,
Why is this even news?

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» AN50 on 07.13.12 @ 08:00 AM

Willie, profit is not greed. I get tired of this stupid leftist canard always being thrown out there because someone doesn’t like the idea of anyone else making money off of them. That 20-25% ends up as working capital in the economy. As for Medicare, its cost is lower simply because the don’t pay for the services rendered.

But all this is just more distraction from what I’m trying to get across to you people. It’s not cost of coverage; it’s the cost of both coverage and the service being covered that is a net loss to the economy as a whole. You want to expand coverage which means an automatic expansion of the service and our economy as a whole cannot afford it. Willie, for God’s sake, we already have far too much economic activity (more than 80%) in the net loss category! That is the point! We need to do more net surplus economic activity, a lot more, just to pay down the enormous debt we are piling up, let alone finance more value draining services!

Reconfigure insurance anyway you like, it will never pay for itself. It is a service, based mostly on placating fear. No matter how much we value personally health care it will never pay for itself either. The best we can do if we want these services is produce more value than we consume somewhere else to make up for them.

Right now, we as a nation, both public and private, are some $70 trillion in the red. I don’t care how passionate you are about healthcare, I don’t care what political opinions you have about wealth distribution, I don’t care how confused you are about profit, an incentive, versus greed, a lust for more, the simple overwhelming fact is we cannot afford the amount of services we demand now let alone add another 2 to 6 trillion dollars more, period. Wrap it, spin it and obfuscate it any way you want, we are friggen broke. It doesn’t matter one iota how much money you have or your sugar daddy Soros has, it doesn’t matter how much money is thrown around on completely worthless endeavors like political campaigns, we are still consuming far more than we make and piling up huge amounts of debt doing it.

Until you come to grips with that reality, until it sinks in to your brain and keeps you awake at night, nothing we are currently doing will make a difference Willie. We can have the best services on the planet bar none but not until we do the production, the generation of net surplus wealth to pay for it.

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