The liberal rags in North Carolina must believe that
the citizens of this state are completely devoid of critical thinking. This Sunday’s paper is full of condemnations and
recriminations of our representatives in Raleigh for not setting up state
exchanges and expanding Medicaid. And as
usual they are completely vacuous on the ramifications of flooding our healthcare
system with 500,000 new consumers with an Obamacare EBT card.
Is it too much to ask reporters and editors of a
newspaper to have a basic understanding of economics? What is happening around the country is
insurance premiums are skyrocketing.
Many families are finding out they can’t afford this federal government
scheme. And those “lucky” enough to
qualify for a subsidy, I ask – where does everybody think this money is coming
from? Santa Claus?
Of course, these purveyors of the news are so arrogant;
they believe there is no other source of information that exists besides
them. An editor at the News and Record published
an op-ed stating that because North Carolina refused to setup a state exchange,
we have less competition. Well, that’s
happening around the country, whether a state established an exchange or
not. Take a look at a blue state that’s participating
in this fiasco:
Hundreds
of thousands of New Jerseyans opened the mail last week to find their health
insurance plan would no longer exist in 2014 because it does not cover all the
essential benefits required by the Affordable Care Act.
The news surprised some who were unaware that provisions
in the new law known as “Obamacare” were forcing insurance companies to scrap
some plans they had previously offered.
“The Affordable Care Act is driving many changes to
products and pricing,” said Thomas Vincz, a spokesman for Horizon. “Horizon
BCBSNJ is actively working to help our members find new insurance plans that
meet their needs and budget.”
The changes will impact more than 800,000 people in New
Jersey who purchase insurance on the individual and small-employer markets,
according to Ward Sanders, president of the New Jersey Association of Health
Plans.
Geez, weren’t we told we would see a reduction in
premiums? Weren’t we told that you can
keep your current plan? I wonder if
these new plans will allow you to keep your doctor, as promised by Barack
Hussein Obama. Somehow, I don’t believe
it will. And it’s happening all around
the country.
I have to laugh.
The Charlotte Observer published Ned Barnett’s op-ed on page 27A. On page 26A, the Disturber published another opinion
piece on the incompetence of North Carolina’s Secretary of Health and Human
Services. It seems they’re upset about
not getting answers on the state’s Medicaid fiascos. Here is an excerpt:
Wos, North Carolina’s
secretary of health and human services, has repeatedly complained about press
coverage of her department and both press and public requests for information about
it. Just to make sure that no pesky journalists bother her, she also travels
with an escort who keeps reporters from asking her questions.
It is flabbergasting
that on Tuesday, when legislators grilled Wos and her department about its poor
performance in paying Medicaid providers, Wos took time to whine about
public-records requests.
Capitol Broadcasting Co.
reports that when asked about a critical report of her department’s behavior
that appeared on the North Carolina Health News website, Wos first noted that
she hadn’t read the piece and then complained about the many records that the
website’s reporter and other members of the public had requested since she took
her job.
We find her response
troubling on two fronts.
First, we find it
disconcerting that Wos would ignore an investigative story about her department
that was published by a distinguished health-news outlet. The report raised
serious questions about her agency’s truthfulness when dealing with the
legislature and public.
Second, we’re sorry that
the records requests inconvenience Wos, but we would remind the good doctor
that the public has a right to know what its government is doing, especially
the biggest department of its government, one that spends billions of tax
dollars annually and that is doing a poor job of paying Medicaid providers
These are the same
idiots that want to add 500,000 more people to Medicaid! I kid you not! All you can do is laugh at this insanity.
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