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Barack Obama, Insurance Salesman
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May 7, 2013, 4:44:02 PM5/7/13
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Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy expert whose brother is former White
House chief of staff (now Chicago mayor) Rahm Emanuel, has an op-ed in
today's Wall Street Journal offering advice for dealing with one of
ObamaCare's biggest impending problems: the inevitability that medical
insurance premiums for the young and healthy will rise so high that it's
economically irrational to purchase policies.
Here's Emanuel's recommendation:
Fortunately, there are solutions. First, young people believe
in President Obama. They overwhelmingly voted for him. He won
by a 23% margin among voters 18-29--just the people who need
to enroll. The president connects with young people, too, so
he needs to use that bond and get out there to convince them
to sign up for health insurance to help this central part of
his legacy. Every commencement address by an administration
official should encourage young graduates to get health
insurance.
Second, we need to make clear as a society that buying insurance
is part of individual responsibility. If you don't have insurance
and you need to go to the emergency room or unexpectedly get
diagnosed with cancer, you are free- riding on others. Insured
Americans will have to pay more to hospitals and doctors to make
up for your nonpayment. The social norm of individual
responsibility must be equated with purchasing health insurance.
Good luck with that. But if Obama is capable of getting people insurance
just by giving speeches, why didn't he do that four years ago rather than
let Harry Pelosi and Nancy Reid impose their monstrous new law on the
country?
--
"Re-electing Obama is like backing The Titanic up and hitting the
iceberg a second time."
House chief of staff (now Chicago mayor) Rahm Emanuel, has an op-ed in
today's Wall Street Journal offering advice for dealing with one of
ObamaCare's biggest impending problems: the inevitability that medical
insurance premiums for the young and healthy will rise so high that it's
economically irrational to purchase policies.
Here's Emanuel's recommendation:
Fortunately, there are solutions. First, young people believe
in President Obama. They overwhelmingly voted for him. He won
by a 23% margin among voters 18-29--just the people who need
to enroll. The president connects with young people, too, so
he needs to use that bond and get out there to convince them
to sign up for health insurance to help this central part of
his legacy. Every commencement address by an administration
official should encourage young graduates to get health
insurance.
Second, we need to make clear as a society that buying insurance
is part of individual responsibility. If you don't have insurance
and you need to go to the emergency room or unexpectedly get
diagnosed with cancer, you are free- riding on others. Insured
Americans will have to pay more to hospitals and doctors to make
up for your nonpayment. The social norm of individual
responsibility must be equated with purchasing health insurance.
Good luck with that. But if Obama is capable of getting people insurance
just by giving speeches, why didn't he do that four years ago rather than
let Harry Pelosi and Nancy Reid impose their monstrous new law on the
country?
--
"Re-electing Obama is like backing The Titanic up and hitting the
iceberg a second time."
John H. Gohde
May 8, 2013, 7:24:48 AM5/8/13
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