The morons are having some difficulty convincing people that a program that gives them money for health insurance is being financed on their backs.
Since it’s difficult to make an argument from self-interest against accepting free money to buy health insurance, anti-enrollment campaigns have pinned their hopes to framing the health law as a government handout – all financed by the young and the healthy. They’ll describe it as something akin to welfare or food stamps, and expect that middle-class Americans will then think twice about enrolling.
“This is not private insurance,” Brase, of Citizens Council for Health Care Freedom, says of the health plans that will be sold on the new marketplaces. “It is Medicaid for the middle class. The only way you get it is through an application to the federal government. Whether you pay the whole freight or get subsidized, you’re essentially buying Medicaid.”
Except, it is private insurance.
It’s hard to be clearer than this:
Abigail Nobel is a tea party activist in Michigan, who will soon start a speaking tour across the state, urging locals not to sign up for coverage. She expects to rely on a similar message to dissuade people from enrolling, particularly in situations where a federal subsidy might make health coverage more affordable.
“As soon as you mention a government program and Medicaid, you don’t have to talk that long,” she says. “I like that there is still a stigma [around Medicaid]. That people want to stand on their own feet. When you need help, you should go to your neighbors and church. It’s the American way of doing charity.”
The fundamental problem with ObamaCare is that it makes it unnecessary to go to “your church” when you get cancer.
