I feeeeeeel like I’m in a thrall pattern, setting myself up to be mowed down if I try to resist the throng. I feeeeeeel treasonous for even reading that the state is moving forward with its insurance exchange in fulfillment of the socialized medicine bill that:
- is un-Constitutional, but the president’s gonna steamroll it anyway.
- is being foisted on North Carolinians because our attorney general didn’t care to join the lawsuit.
- really could have used more d***ing language from Judge Vinson.
Instead of being a nation of brave and free Americans, we sit here and suck our security blankets as we read internally-inconsistent news stories of convoluted pretzel logic. The article of interest turns your mind to putty in the hands of the journalist as you place the latest news in the context of the rhetoric the smiling suits in Washington, DC have been shoveling.
To wit: To reduce waste, fraud, and abuse and get evil insurance companies out from between patients and their doctors – appointees are recommending seating a representative from the largest contingent in the state’s insurance oligopoly, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, on the exchange. The exchange would provide administrative functions with government oversight for “marketplace” policy brokering. If we could only get the beast to function nationally, there would be no argument that healthcare is interstate commerce in need of federal controls. Regardless, there is hope that a federal pool will be established that could use taxing powers to undercut private providers, avalanche-style, until the federal government victoriously conquers the healthcare sector. Cha-ching!
