One of the charges against the left, and an accurate one at that, is that they don’t want to live under the same rules that you and I will be forced to live under.

One example is noted by a commenter at Ann Althous’s blog “Althouse”
where she discusses the utter stupidity of an attack on John Mackey of Whole Foods by Richard Blair:

Let me explain in words that a wingnut free marketeer like John Mackey can understand: John, it’s my money. I get to spend it, or not spend it, wherever and however I choose. It is entirely my decision, and you have utterly no say in the matter.

I suspect, since the Mackey article in the Wall Street Journal is about the “unfairness” of the Obama Plan – in real life, an effort to put into place a single payer plan, that the commenter didn’t appreciate the irony of saying that in a boycott of Whole Foods, he was entitled to spend his own money and denies, by inference, the opportunity for the rest of us to spend our money how we want. And believe you me, the majority of Americans do not want to spend their money to fund this boondoggle called Obamacare (via Rasmussen – H/T Gateway Pundit)

Thirty-two percent (32%) of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% are opposed to a single-payer plan.

Fifty-two percent (52%) believe such a system would lead to a lower quality of care while 13% believe care would improve. Twenty-seven percent (27%) think that the quality of care would remain about the same.

More expensive, lower quality and don’t forget that those “death panels” that the left maintained their absence when Sarah Palin called them out on it only to have that very article pulled from the bill only one week later. Palin 1, Progressives 0!

In fact, the “death panels are in a different bit of legislation, the so called “Porkulus Bill” which Obama insists is a stimulus bill but which has yet to stimulate anything other than the lefts grab for power and control of so very many facets of your life. (H/T to A.F. Ticker) But I digress, the whole idea behind this post is the utter incompetence of the Obama Administration and the Democratic “Leadership” in the Senate and the House.

Mackey offers a prescription for a real health care/health insurance reform:

• Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs). The combination of high-deductible health insurance and HSAs is one solution that could solve many of our health-care problems. For example, Whole Foods Market pays 100% of the premiums for all our team members who work 30 hours or more per week (about 89% of all team members) for our high-deductible health-insurance plan. We also provide up to $1,800 per year in additional health-care dollars through deposits into employees’ Personal Wellness Accounts to spend as they choose on their own health and wellness.

Money not spent in one year rolls over to the next and grows over time. Our team members therefore spend their own health-care dollars until the annual deductible is covered (about $2,500) and the insurance plan kicks in. This creates incentives to spend the first $2,500 more carefully. Our plan’s costs are much lower than typical health insurance, while providing a very high degree of worker satisfaction.

• Equalize the tax laws so that that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits. Now employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but individual health insurance is not. This is unfair.

• Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines. We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.

• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying.

• Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. These costs are passed back to us through much higher prices for health care.

• Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost. How many people know the total cost of their last doctor’s visit and how that total breaks down? What other goods or services do we buy without knowing how much they will cost us?

• Enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy and enact reforms that create greater patient empowerment, choice and responsibility.

• Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren’t covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

While I’m not sure of the last item because it seems to me that included in the “millions” that aren’t covered may in fact be a goodly number that don’t want to spend their money on health insurance for what ever reason. Maybe some form of catastrophic insurance should be available for them with a very high deductible. I also note that the 47 million with out insurance as touted by the Left and by Dr. Obama is spurious at best:

1) Nearly 10 million are in this country illegally or, if you prefer undocumented. Never-the-less, we have no legal or moral obligation to insure them. To treat them yes, sadly we can’t bill their country of origin for the treatment – well, rather we can but we know the home country won’t pay it.

2) But according to the 2005 Census report, there are 8.3 million uninsured people who make between $50,000 and $74,999 per year and 8.74 million who make more than $75,000 a year. That’s roughly 17 million people who ought to be able to “afford” health insurance because they make substantially more than the median household income of $46,326.

3) “So what is the true extent of the uninsured “crisis?” The Kaiser Family Foundation, a liberal non-profit frequently quoted by the media, puts the number of uninsured Americans who do not qualify for current government programs and make less than $50,000 a year between 13.9 million and 8.2 million.” Source

So Mr. Commenter, feel free to boycott Whole Foods if you so wish, there will be plenty of us “Domestic Terrorists” who will start buying there but we also reserve the right to spend our money where we see fit and it won’t for damn sure be on Obamacare.

UPDATE: Rosita the Prole listened in to the President and a Randomly Selected Child. A must read!

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