Single Payer: A Faulty Rationale

I think that in taking a good look at current health care plan; we need to look at it in its entirety.  A great place to start is with the rationale for the program.

The left likes to create or exploit a “crisis” in order to move forward with the plans.  They use a real or invented crisis to justify their plans, which are nothing more than attempts to gain and maintain power.  I do believe that the current health care “crisis” is an artificial one, which is why looking at the rationale for installing a single payer system is so important.

At this time, they are using the artificial “crisis” of there being 47,000,000 uninsured Americans to justify this action.  However, the “crisis” really isn’t a crisis.  Here are some quotes regarding the “crisis.”

However, the Census Bureau report “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005,” puts the initial number of uninsured people living in the country at 46.577 million.

A closer look at that report reveals the Census data include 9.487 million people who are “not a citizen.” Subtracting the 10 million non-Americans, the number of uninsured Americans falls to roughly 37 million.

It is speculated that there are approximately 20,000,000 illegals in the US.  So they mean to say that 10,000,000 of them HAVE insurance?  If so, how many are receiving Medicaid?

But according to the same Census report, there are 8.3 million uninsured people who make between $50,000 and $74,999 per year and 8.74 million who make more than $75,000 a year. That’s roughly 17 million people who ought to be able to “afford” health insurance because they make substantially more than the median household income of $46,326.

Hmmm, perhaps people that do not CHOOSE to have health insurance.  BTW, that is to be illegal under the single payer plan, punishable by a $1000 fine, in fact!

The Census “underreported” the number of people covered by health insurance – meaning that more people have insurance than the report suggests. The Census also underreported the number of people covered by Medicare and Medicaid.

Subtracting non-citizens and those who can afford their own insurance but choose not to purchase it, about 20 million people are left – less than 7 percent of the population.

Dr. Grace-Marie Turner, a BMI adviser and president of the Galen Institute, agreed that “the number [on uninsured] is inflated and affects the debate.”

Turner also pointed out that “45 percent of the uninsured are going to have insurance within four months [according to the Congressional Budget Office],” because many are transitioning between jobs and most people get health insurance through their employers.

So, the left, in absence of a real crisis, has inflated numbers to create one.  This is fully consistent with their typical deceit, as well as their use of an artificial crisis in order to justify a power grab.  Their goal is a single payer plan.  They clearly state it.  What If there is no real justification?  No problem! They’ll just invent one!

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