Friday, October 31, 2008

Not with a Bang, but a Whimper

This is how socialized medicine will be enacted.  It won’t be done with a huge plan all at once.  It will be done by slowly pushing existing programs to include more and more people until it no longer makes sense for private insurance carriers to exist. 

BadgerCare Plus, which includes federal funding, is designed for the families of children under 19 years old. The state has reached an agreement in principle that would give the state a five-year waiver from those restrictions and allow adults to receive coverage.

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Earlier this year, Doyle touted a BadgerCare Plus proposal that started Feb. 1 and was intended to expand access to health care coverage to all children in the state.

Once the program is available, single adults who want to enroll must make less than $20,800 a year and married couples who want to sign up must make less than $28,000 a year.

(5) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1707 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. I smell a camel’s nose.

    Posted by dad29 on October 31, 2008 at 1722 hrs


  2. Make that sociable medicine.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 31, 2008 at 1732 hrs


  3. Capitalism dies the death of a thousand cuts.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 31, 2008 at 1838 hrs


  4. Not unless the Democrats step in to rescue it…again.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 31, 2008 at 2036 hrs


  5. Keith you dip shit (with due respect),

    You assholes keep playing with it trying to break it. The problem is that it works around you.

    For example, we are heading back to 20% downpayments for homes from banks that want no part of your lovely help.

    Those banks are going to become greatly successful.

    Thus, your ‘rescue’ will not beat back a free market, it will merely reroute it. Like water flowing down the Mississippi River that ends up in the Gulf, or the Big Easy.

    You can mess with it, you can break it, you can reroute it, you can sand bag it, but it will beat you.

    Ask the folks in the Soviet Union who traded one commodity or another to get around the rationing of toilet paper and Vodka.

    Markets will always be here, no matter how hard you try to supress them.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on November 01, 2008 at 0050 hrs


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