OK… I get it… it’s crazy out there and who’s got the time
to understand the tens of thousands of pages of new regulations associated with
the “Affordable Care Act”, also known as Obamacare?
Besides, from what we all heard in the press, wasn’t
Obamacare going to provide cheaper healthcare and make sure that everyone had
inexpensive healthcare? Who could
be against that? Right?
If you’re young and healthy (and there are a lot of you out there), you should be. Listen up. We’ll keep this brief.
Obamacare for young (18-34) Americans (not living in their
parent’s basement or otherwise on the dole), is like being forced (at gunpoint)
to go out to dinner with everyone in the neighborhood, every night of the
week.
You are forced to go to one of only a couple of restaurants in town,
even if you think the food in those restaurants is not to your liking and / or
is overpriced.
At this group dinner, young healthy Americans, being frugal
and health conscious, order the low-cost Thai chicken lettuce wraps and water
while at the other end of the table they watch in horror at the life style
choices of their neighbors slamming down lobster, ribs, filet mignon and fries washed down
with Jack.
To add insult to injury, the young healthy Americans are
told the total food and bar bill will be divided evenly among everyone in the
dinner party, regardless of what each person ordered. Everyone pays the same.
You are being told that this arrangement is ‘fair” because,
well, it would be unfair for someone to have to pay more than someone
else. (Remember this every time
you hear the word ‘fair’ from a politician.)
By the way, if you think this dinner plan is unfair, based
on YOUR morality, and you decide you don’t want to participate, then you will
be forced to pay a fine. If you
don’t pay the fine, guys with three letters on the back of their windbreakers,
will show up on your doorstep and shake you down (if they’re not too busy
slow-rolling 501c4 applications from Tea Party groups or otherwise wasting tax
payer money).
This is all young, healthy Americans need to know about
Obamacare. The only way to keep
health insurance premiums low for older persons, in this Obamacare train wreck,
is to shake down young, healthy Americans.
Next time you sit down to have your PB and J sandwich,
looking to save a few bucks so you can start building your future, remember
that unless you get off your ass and do something, you’ll be paying for someone
else’s filet mignon now and forever.
Call your Congressman.
Tell him / her that you’re young and healthy and you’re not going to
subsidize this grotesque freedom-snatch with your silence. Tell your Congressman that the erosion of freedom in this country is going to stop now.
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will
not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."