Can he be right?

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I’m a 54 year old consulting

engineer and make between $60,000 and $125,000

per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not

there are work

projects out there for me. My girlfriend is 61 and makes

about $18,000 per year, working as a

part-time mail clerk. For me, making $60,000 a year,

under ObamaCare, the cheapest, lowest grade

policy I can buy, which also happens to impose a $5,000

deductible, costs

$482 per month. For my girlfriend, the same exact

policy, same deductible, costs $1 per

month. That’s right, $1 per month. I’m not making

this up. Don’t believe me? Just go

to http://www.coveredca.gov/ ,

the ObamaCare website for

California and enter the parameters I’ve mentioned above

and see for

yourself. By the way, my zip code is 93940. You’ll need

to enter that. So OK, clearly ObamaCare is a

scheme that involves putting the cost burden

of healthcare onto the middle and upper-income wage earners.

But there’s a

lot more to it. Stick with me. And before I make my next points,

I’d like you to think about something: I

live in Monterey County, in Central California. We have a

large land mass

but just 426,000 residents – about the population of

Colorado Springs or

the city of Omaha. But we do have a large Hispanic

population, including a large number of

illegal aliens, and to serve this group we have Natividad

Medical Center, a

massive, Federally subsidized county medical complex that

takes up an area

about one-third the size of the Chrysler Corporation

automobile assembly

plant in Belvedere, Illinois (see Google Earth View).

Natividad has

state-of-the-art operating rooms, Computed Tomography and

Magnetic

Resonance Imaging, fully equipped, 24 hour emergency room,

and much more.

If you have no insurance, if you’ve been in a drive-by

shooting or have

overdosed on crack cocaine, this is where you go. And

it’s essentially

free, because almost everyone who ends up in the ER is

uninsured. Last year, 2,735 babies were born

at Natividad. 32% of these were born to

out-of-wedlock teenage mothers, 93% of which were Hispanic.

Less than 20%

could demonstrate proof of citizenship, and 71% listed their

native

language as Spanish. Of these 876 births, only 40 were

covered under [any

kind of] private health insurance. The taxpayers paid for

the other 836.

And in case you were wondering about the entire population –

all 2,735

births – less than 24% involved insured coverage or even

partial payment on

behalf of the patient to the hospital in exchange for

services. Keep this

in mind as we move forward. Now consider

this: If I want to upgrade my policy to

a low-deductible premium policy, such as

what I had with my last employer, my cost is $886 per month.

But my

girlfriend can upgrade her policy to the very same level,

for just $4 per

month. That’s right, $4 per month. $48 per year for a

zero-deductible,

premium healthcare policy – the kind of thing you get when

you work at IBM

(except of course, IBM employees pay an average of $170 per

month out of

pocket for their coverage). I

mean, it’s bad enough that I will be forced to subsidize

the ObamaCare

scheme in the first place. But even if I agreed with the

basic scheme,

which of course I do not, I would *never* agree to subsidize

premium

policies. If I have to pay $482 a month for a budget policy,

I sure as hell

do not want the guy I’m subsidizing to get a better

policy, for less that

1% of what I have to fork out each month for a low-end

policy. Why must I pay $482 per month for

something the other guy gets for a

dollar? And why should the other guy get to buy an $886

policy for $4 a

month? Think about this: I have to pay $10,632 a year for

the same thing

that the other guy can get for $48. $10,000 of net income is

60 days of

full time work *as an engineer*. $48 is something I could

could pay for

collecting aluminum cans and plastic bottles, one day a

month. Are you with me on this? Are you

starting to get an idea what ObamaCare is

really about? ObamaCare is

not about dealing with inequities in the healthcare system.

That’s just the cover story. The real story is that it

is a massive,

political power grab. Do you think anyone who can insure

himself with a

premium policy for $4 a month will vote for anyone but the

political party

that provides him such a deal? ObamaCare is about enabling,

subsizdizing,

and expanding the Left’s political power base, at

taxpayer expense. Why

would I vote for anyone but a Democrat if I can have babies

for $4 a month?

For that matter, why would I go to college or strive for a

better job or

income if it means I have to pay real money for healthcare

coverage? Heck,

why study engineering when I can be a schlub for $20K per

year and buy a

new F-150 with all the money I’m

saving? And think about those $4-a-month

babies – think in terms of propagation

models. Think of just how many babies will be born to

irresponsible,

under-educated mothers. Will we get a new crop of brain

surgeons and

particle physicists from the dollar baby club, or will we

need more cops,

criminal courts and prisons? One thing you can be certain

of: At $4 a

month, they’ll multiply, and multiply, and multiply. And

not one of them

will vote Republican. ObamaCare: It’s all about

political power.