Obamacare set to Consume Private Healthcare

This is no joke. Rep. Kevin Brady asked his staff to map out the House Leadership’s proposed healthcare plan. The result was the attached map.



Today, some readers have pointed out that private health insurance will be forbidden. On page 16 of the Government Publishing Office’s official version of the bill you can read the section for yourself at the Government Publishing Office website. What it says is,
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Section 102: PROTECTING THE CHOICE TO KEEP CURRENT HEALTHCARE
(a) GRANDFATHERED HEALTH INSURANCE DEFINED.—Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, for purposes of establishing acceptable coverage under this division, the term ‘‘grandfathered health insurance coverage’’ means individual health insurance coverage that is offered and in force and effect before the first day of Y1 if the following conditions are met:
(1) LIMITATION ON NEW ENROLLMENT.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first day of Y1.
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In other words, Obama will keep his promise that you will can keep your current healthcare. What it does not say is that you will ever get the choice of private healthcare again. If you have it, you can keep it -- for now. If don’t have it, you’ll never get it.

This is government competing against the private sector. As my 9-year-old son is now fond of quoting Rep. Mike Pence (R-Muncie, Ind.), “Government competing against private companies is like an alligator competing against a duck: the alligator consumes the duck.”

This bill is a flat-out a nationalization of healthcare. All new insurance has to play within the new rules. All existing policies will be shut down under their own weight, due to lack of new, young, healthy enrollees. Complete nationalization won’t be immediate but it will legally be inevitable.

Is government-owned healthcare what you would wish on your worst enemy, let alone your family and friends?

UPDATE: February 3, 2017, it is nice to see a quote from later Governor and now Vice-President Pence still holding up after nearly eight (8) years.