Hey Moonbats: You Know How You Think the World Owes You Something? Turns Out You’ll Actually Be Footing the Bill After All.

After discussing this somewhat at length with my socialist libtard sister, which always gives me great insight into liberal abnormal psychology, I have come to the conclusion that, as with most liberal policies, HitlerKare is predicated on the belief that the more successful members of society owe the fruits of their labor to those who are less successful.

One moonbat even wrote an article in Salon last week projecting his hatred for kulaks onto the elderly and claiming that the elderly are selfish for having been extorted for their wages to pay for socialist programs over the course of decades and actually expecting to get what they paid for.

Since the elderly overwhelmingly oppose HitlerKare, its supporters must be overwhelmingly young.

As luck would have it, 20-somethings will end up disproportionately footing the bill for it after all. Gee, who would have thunk, what with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel wishing to restrict medical care to those who cannot be exploited as cash cows for the federal government?

Emanuel, however, believes that "communitarianism" should guide decisions on who gets care. He says medical care should be reserved for the non-disabled, not given to those "who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens . . . An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia" (Hastings Center Report, Nov.-Dec. '96).

Mike Tanner explains in WaPo today how younger folks will effectively end up paying for their parents' care:

Drafting young adults into any health-care reform package is crucial to paying for it. As low-cost additions to insurance pools, young adults would help dilute the expense of covering older, sicker people. Depending on how Congress requires insurers to price their policies, this group could even wind up paying disproportionately hefty premiums—effectively subsidizing coverage for their parents.

So I guess you won't get to screw 'The Man,' after all, huh? You'll just end up screwing yourselves and benefiting the Establishment.

You want healthcare? Support the GOP (tort reform, open health insurance market, immigration reform) or end up paying more than you already do for inferior care.

You want social justice?

We've got it already.

Equal rights and a free market are the only social justice.

Learn to love it or move to Venezuela.

Not only would HitlerKare cost you more than those offensive senior citizens whom you apparently think owe you something, but costs would necessarily skyrocket due to government inefficiency, corruption, and your nemesis: the free market, which is ultimately more powerful than any government.

See, not only would 45% of doctors quit on the spot, but we would have a doctor shortage of 150,000 by 2025 (and that's without 45% of doctors quitting), plus we would then have to cover the endless stream of foreign, parasitic health tourists.

NHS AIDS clinics report that 80% of their patients have lived in the UK for less than a year.

Grandma won't be paying for them.

You will. Go ahead and shoot yourselves in the foot.

You'll only have to wait a year or two to get it treated.