Massachusetts Couple Fined For Not Having Adequate Health Insurance

This is what Obamacare will look like, except on a national scale. They’ll start off saying that you can keep your existing plan, but as soon as they’ve got their foot in the door they’ll change the rules of the game. Suddenly your private plan won’t be good enough any more. You’ll be fined until you get a government-approved plan that will probably cost more and force you to pay for coverage you’ll probably never use.
Oh, and that plan will probably be the one offered by the government too. But don’t worry, they’re not trying for a government take-over of health care.

Wendy Williams and her husband liked their health insurance plan. The premium and annual deductibles made sense for them, and a more “gold-plated” plan was not worth the money. Yet Massachusetts’ health care regulators disagreed, and forced the Williams to pay a $1,000 fine if they wished to keep their insurance plan — a plan they prefer to a comparable state-approved alternative.
It wasn’t always this way. When the Massachusetts mandate was first adopted, their plan was just fine. But then the rules changed. The state no longer accepts their insurance plan, even though they are fully insured and are not imposing their health care costs on other taxpayers.

This is the part of the “public option” or “co-ops” that the liberals don’t want to talk about. They’ll claim that whatever government-backed plans they create, be they the “public option” or “co-ops”, will just be an additional choice in the health care market. You know, just in case you’re not happy with what’s already being offered. But then they’ll slowly tighten the noose through regulation, taxes and mandates until pretty much your only option is the government-backed plan.
And once most of us are on the government-backed plans it’s a small step from their to nationalized health care.
Remember, the liberals want single-payer, socialized medicine. They don’t have the political support to just nationalize the health care industry, so they’ll get there by baby steps instead.
On a related note, remember that Massachusetts’ government health care system was brought to you by the self-proclaimed limited government conservative Mitt Romney.