"HEALTHCARE, HEALTH INSURANCE AND HOW TO FIX THEM" ***WARNING: LOGIC AND COMMON SENSE FOLLOWS

Below are follow-up comments by Barnhardt on a few points that weren't covered in the videos. You can read the entire follow-up at her site--post titled ON OBAMACARE AND THE CHURCH. No permalinks at her site so just scroll down to the post.

**This is a follow-up to the Healthcare videos posted yesterday. I have a couple of quick secular points, and then I want to explain the reason why there are so many Catholic bishops jumping in bed with the Marxist abomination of state-controlled healthcare.

1. I have received many great reader comments on insurance. The first great point that I wasn’t able to address in my video was the point of “pre-existing conditions”. It goes without saying that the entire paradigm of insurance and risk pooling utterly disintegrates – and that is the PERFECT word for it: dis-integrates – if insurance providers are forced to accept enrollees with pre-existing conditions. If the risk in question is already fully manifest as a catastrophe, the insurance company is no longer acting as a risk pooler – it is being forced to act as a charity. Insurance companies are not charities. Charities are charities. Trying to force a for-profit risk pooler to be a charity will accomplish nothing except destroying the company and the risk-pooling paradigm itself. This is simple logic and common sense. Anyone who argues to the contrary is either mentally disabled in some way, or evil. One, two. There is no three.

2. Yes, neither the government nor employers should have ANYHING to do with health insurance. Whether or not to buy health insurance and which insurance to buy should be completely up to the individual. Employers don’t involve themselves in what clothes people buy, what food they buy or what dwelling they rent or buy. Why in the world would health insurance be any different? Oh, and portability would cease to be an issue if employer-sponsored health insurance was eliminated.

3. Fraud. Yep, the massive problem of insurance fraud would also be reduced if deductibles were raised and people were forced back into the healthcare market. I received a message from a reader with a nurse in their family who reports that a single alcohol wipe is billed at $5.00 to insurance companies/MediCare. The actual cost? $0.04. If individuals were receiving itemized bills and having to pay for this stuff themselves, how long do you think it would take for the price of a single alcohol wipe to deflate from $5.00 to $0.06? I’m not sure, but that speed would have to be expressed as a percentage of the speed of light, methinks.

A LOOK BACK AT THE GOOD OL' DAYS

Before we experience the "fundamental transformation of the United State of America" this weekend, let's have some fun--while we still can--watching The Ross Sisters performing "Solid Potato Salad" from 1944. Hat tip: Joe Chez of Northern California, AKA Bluff-a-lo Joe.

MORT ZUCKERMAN BLASTS OBAMA

During an interview with Neil Cavuto, Zuckerman unloaded on Obama's policies. Even big libs are beginning to see clearly:

ANSWERING BACHMANN'S CALL: ANDREA SHEA KING, KRISTINN TAYLOR TRAVELING TO DC FOR THURSDAY'S CAPITOL RALLY--Updated

Writer, blogger and radio show host, Andrea Shea King has answered Rep. Michele Bachmann's call to come to Washington DC this Thursday to help stop health care legislation that will eventually enslave all of America. Malkin has the latest on health care.

During a Monday interview on Glenn Beck's radio show, Bachmann asked that all available Americans travel to Washington DC, meet her on the Capitol steps, and go inside to look the reps in the eye and tell them to stop this bill.

Andrea is not traveling alone, either. Free Republic's Communications Director, Kristinn Taylor, will be taking the 13 hour, one-way trip too. Two other Florida patriots will be joining them as well. Sorry, but I don't have their names right now.

The foursome will be departing from Florida's Space Coast this evening, hitting I-95 and cruising to DC to cover Bachmann's, and America's, six.

UPDATE: Michele Bachmann just phoned Andrea to set up a meeting in her office sometime Thursday. PLUS!!! Tea Party Express II bigs are answering Bachmann's call too. They'll be breaking off from the express for a short time to make a quick flight to the DC rally. Full report at The Radio Patriot.

America, we're at DEFCON 2--health care legislation must be stopped. Do whatever you can, phone, email, or hit the road for DC.

****Check back as I will be updating throughout Thursday. I might have a few reports from the road tonight as well.

Get Well soon, Glenn. Reports are that he's not feeling well.