Washington is the primary insurer of Americans — 194 million — through Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare.
One of the triumphs attributed to BObamaCare was job growth. According to Goldman Sachs: “500,000 jobs were added to health-care sector under BObamaCare.” When the data are studied in detail, 47,000 were care providers, 453,000 (91%) were non-clinical jobs, people who did not provide patient care.
Calculate the salaries for millions of bureaucrats, administrators, rule-writers, regulation compliers, compliance officers, overseers, mandate-enforcers (BARRCOME). This is the cost of healthcare associated with regulations such as BObamaCare, which cost $1.76 trillion. In fact, to cover part of this cost, $716 billion was taken from the Medicare Trust, money intended to pay for hospital care for seniors. According to the Trustees, Medicare will be insolvent by 2028 and thus unable to provide this care.
BObamaCare was merely 1 lie that diverts healthcare spending away from paying for care. In 2023, the U.S. expended $4.5 trillion on its healthcare system. It is estimated that 31% to more than 50% of U.S. healthcare spending goes to BARRCOME. That translates to $2 trillion’s worth of patient care Washington denies its citizens while paying itself. Those government employess vote left-wing/democrat. Whenever the vote is to take from Peter to give to Paul, Paul will always vote for it. That’s the greed neo-liberals support and want more of.
Job growth in healthcare demonstrates a variation of the seesaw effect: as government takes over healthcare, BARRCOME goes up, patient care goes down, and Americans die. Washington’s takeover (by regulation) of healthcare has produced a Potemkin Village. Grigori Potemkin, an 18th-century Russian statesman, built a façade of a prosperous village and hired actors so one thought the change had been a great success. In fact, it was a failure — and Russians continued to starve.
Washington has produced a Potemkin village called Federal Healthcare. The uninsured rate is the façade of success. Each reduction of this number is heralded as a new triumph. Another false building front is added and propped up for viewing pleasure. Behind the façade, there is reality: Washington paying itself with “healthcare” dollars, and Americans with BObamaCare waiting in line for rationed care.
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