The only way
you can be a victim in the Age of Obama is if you’re a liberal. Conservatives can only expect ridicule and
condemnation when things go horribly wrong.
That was the case when a Ft. Mill, South Carolina man asked for help on GoFundMe.com
as a vehicle to defray the cost of expensive surgery.
Luis Lang is a self-employed handyman who is unable
to work due to degenerative eye problems caused by diabetes. He, like many of the self-employed, declined
to purchase, or renew their health insurance due to the prohibitive cost of
Obamacare.
I’m sure Mr. Lang didn’t realize that by going public,
he was going to be a poster boy for statist and their expanding welfare state. I’m sure he’s taken aback by those who find pleasure
in his life altering illness; or, in some cases glee, like local media personality
WBT’s Master of the Mundane – Keith Larson.
Mr. Lang’s critics point to his 3,300 square foot
house valued at $300,000 and his unemployed wife as justification to jitterbug
on his plight. Not one of them condemns
the mandates, regulations and third-party payer system that have rendered
health care unaffordable to those who have the courage to be self-employed.
The Cato Institute, back in 2004, published an
accounting of the uninsured. Here is an
excerpt:
"The high cost of
health services regulation is responsible for more than seven million Americans
lacking health insurance, or one in six of the average daily uninsured.
Moreover, 4,000 more Americans die every year from costs associated with health
services regulation (22,000) than from lack of health insurance (18,000). The
annual net cost of health services regulation dwarfs other costs imposed by
government intervention in the health care sector. This cost exceeds annual
consumer expenditures on gasoline and oil in the United States and is twice the
size of the annual output of the motion picture and sound recording industries
As you can imagine, the implementation of Obamacare
has made matters worse.
Statists argue the expansion of Medicaid would have
helped Mr. Lang. I doubt it. One must qualify. North Carolina has an income and resources
limitation, which means he would have to divest himself of home and
savings. You would have to practically
impoverish yourself, or hide what little wealth you have, to glom onto the
government teat.
And what if you qualify for Medicaid? Doctors are refusing patients due to low
reimbursement rates. And if you do find
one, good luck in getting an appointment.
Rolls have expanded. North
Carolina’s rate has increased 12.4 percent.
Luis Lang is a victim of Obamacare and the many
years of government intervention in health care industry. This entrepreneur should be able to afford eye
surgery without being impoverished by punitive health insurance and
overinflated doctor’s bills.
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