Muscatine

I guess when it suits you, you can just blow off the constitutionality question.  Just keep spouting more blah, blah, blah.   Maybe no one will notice.

 “If Reagan was the Great Communicator, Obama is the Great Confiscator.” How else to describe a president who tells a company it has to give away things for free?  (Constitutionality?????)

In addition, All the lib true believers have been hoodwinked again!:

But before shedding any tears for the insurance companies, check their stock prices. One of the most remarkable moments of the administration came on June 24, 2009, when, during a nationally televised ABC News “town hall” meeting on health care from the White House, Mr. Obama told Aetna’s CEO, “Aetna is a well-managed company and I am confident that your shareholders are going to do well.”

If you took that stock tip from President Obama, you would have done pretty well — shares in Aetna, one of the country’s largest publicly traded health insurance companies, are up 89% since then, assuming reinvestment of dividends, far outpacing the 49% return of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index over the same period. Other large, publicly traded health insurance companies have also prospered during since that June 24, 2009 moment when passage of ObamaCare was far from assured. UnitedHealth Group is up an astonishing 120% since then. Humana is up 184%.

If you look at other inflection points, it’s a similar story. Since Obama signed the health care bill into law on March 23, 2010, Aetna is up 33%, UnitedHealth is up 65%, and Humana is up 76%, all outpacing the 14% rise in the S&P 500 Index over the same period.

Since Obama’s January 20, 2009, inauguration, Aetna is up 80%, UnitedHealth is up 127%, Humana is up 170%, and WellPoint, another large health insurer, is up 79%, all exceeding the 67% increase in the S&P 500 Index over the same period. For all the alarms that were raised during the ObamaCare debate that the regulation of profit and mandates of benefits, such as free birth control pills, would savage the insurance companies, the market seems to have a different opinion. That opinion seems to be that being one of just a few vendors of a product that the government is going to force every American to buy isn’t such a bad business to be in. That’s especially so given the high barriers to entry, both regulatory and capital, facing anyone trying to start a new health insurance company. If anything, the share prices are an affirmation not of the Republican criticism that ObamaCare would kill the insurance companies, but of the left-wing Democratic criticism that the bill was a government giveaway that would enrich the insurance companies.

And the real problem with this is that the insurance company profits will all be short term.  The key will be to figure out when to sell your insurance company stocks.  Because, obamacare will eventually drive all the private companies out of business, forcing each and everyone to buy insurance (and eventually health care) from the federal government.  Then they "got ya".

No the solution is to bring down the cost of healthcare by doing everything possible to give each and every consumer the ability to make purchase decisions just like we do for any other service.  Then the costs will be driven down, and service improved, through competition.  Today, because we don't really pay for our health care services directly, there is no competition.