How About 83 Million Losing Private Coverage?

More fun from the Obama Administration’s “not going to undermine private insurance” public insurance plan.  How about 83 million losing private coverage?

The short version:  A bunch called the Lewin Group crunched the numbers.  The estimate was that 83.4 million people would shift from private to public insurance.  If you believe the government can do things cheaper and better, this is great.  If you’re paying attention to how the government actually works with programs like this, not so much.

I saw a commercial last night about how so many people would suffer and lose out on coverage if this didn’t pass.  The ad had it backwards.  If this bill becomes law, health care rationing will cost people care and coverage.  What coverage there will be will be worse than the system we have now.  Ask the UK.  Ask Canada.  Ask anyone in a country that already has socialized medicine.

The pain is coming if this bill becomes law.

Filed under: Ordinary News Stuff on July 20th, 2009