There are only two ways that the available supply of any good or service can be rationed out. The first is the American way – price. Those willing and able to pay the price get the supply. Those unwilling or unable to pay the price go without. The second is the Obamunist way – waiting lines. In the old Soviet Union, those who were willing and able to wait in long lines for hours got the available bread supply. Those at the end of the line or those who gave up and dropped out of line received no bread. The Obamunists way is to ration the available supply of health care with waiting lines. Those who are unable or unwilling to pay the new “price” of waiting in line for health care will never get any. Moreover, the Obamunists want to decide who gets to cut to the head of the line, that is, they will decide who gets health care and who does not. Page 26 of the Obamunists’ House Bill has the provision for waiting lists:
“If the Secretary estimates for any fiscal year that the aggregate amounts available for payment of expenses of the high-risk pool will be less than the amount of the expenses, the Secretary shall make such adjustments as are necessary to eliminate such deficit, including reducing benefits, increasing premiums, or establishing waiting lists.”
That’s the Obamunist way, but it’s not the American way. The American way is to allow price to ration the available supply and to spend every effort increasing that available supply so the price will be low and everyone can afford it. We need more physicians, nurses, hospitals, clinics, medical research and non-government subsidized insurance companies – not less. How do we get more of these things? The Obamunists will promise to increase the available supply by putting more of these people on the government payroll and by creating government subsidized and government controlled insurance providers. But will they really spend more to increase the available supply so we don’t have to wait in their line very long? It’s doubtful, since the easy way out - the path of least resistance – is to simply decide not to spend on certain groups who then die or are too sick to go to the polls and vote them out of office. The Obamunists won’t give you the choice to pay the price of private health care. Instead, they will decide who pays little and who will receive no health care and thus pay the ultimate price. If you vote against them or speak out against them – don’t expect to go the the head of the line. The Obamunists have a special “economy healthcare package” just for you.
Econ 101: Price ceilings always create shortage (waiting lines) and/or reduction in quality. Other detriments to the market include: the creation of “Black Markets” and Discrimination.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_ceiling
there’s a a really good story on gold and the dollar as a result of the Federal Reserve’s continued attempts to debase our currency and continue to try to solve a debt crisis with more debt at: Gold Price Headed to $2,300 on Hyperinflation Risk?
here’s an excerpt: “The gold price, and the price of other hard assets, is rising as more investors across the globe ask themselves how these deficits and debts will be resolved. Furthermore, new congressional initiative aimed at politicizing the Fed would give the Secretary of the Treasury a veto over Section 13(3) governing emergency action by the Federal Reserve – and effectively taking away the independence of the central bank. Setting aside discussion of the power that the Federal Reserve currently has, if politics enters the arena of monetary policy, then the U.S. dollar’s fate is sealed. Political leaders who reflexively seek political refuge in populist pork-barrel and loose fiscal policies during difficult economic times may soon have the same power – and ballot-box pressure – over monetary policy.”