Denial

 I don ' t remember offhand if I mentioned this in my previous post on the subject, but Sarah Palin ' s grotesque lie about " death panels " also contained a reference to a claim by conservative economist Thomas Sowell:The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. Sowell is obviously an ignorant idiot. As you presumably know,governmentalready paid for health care for the elderly and the disabled, as it still does today. The ACA did nothing to change this, on the contrary it extended medical insurance to people who didn ’t already have it, including notably people who couldn’t get it because they were sick, i.e. had pre-existing conditions. Furthermore itrequiredthat insurance pay for services that previously, it often did not.  Government health care does not " refuse to pay the cost, " it is in fact the only way for old and poor people to get health care, and it does pay. Guess who doesn ' t? Private insurance companies. As Elizabeth Rosenthal reports in Kaiser Health News, "Denials of Health Insurance Claims Are Rising — And Getting Weirder. " Private health insurance companies (not the government) are increasingly refusing to pay legitimate insurance claims i...
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