Arguing with Socialists by Glenn Beck

Author:Glenn Beck
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2020-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

Yeah but Obamacare wasn’t the first time health care promises have been broken. Both political parties have been making and breaking health care promises for decades. And many of the same politicians who supported Obamacare and repeated the false promises made by President Obama are now making similar wildly unrealistic commitments and predictions about Medicare for All. If they misled you before, what makes you think you can trust them now?

This is always how progressives and socialists behave. They promise you the world, and when they fail, they blame it on someone else—usually the opposing political party or some unlucky group of scapegoats they can pin their failures on. Then they make even more promises they know they can’t keep: “Just give us a little more money. Just sacrifice a little more of your freedom. In the end, it will all be worth it. Trust us.”

They’re not worthy of your trust. Remember, these are the same people who spent half a million dollars to study the effects of cocaine on the sexual behavior of Japanese quails.62

And we don’t need to speculate about the possibility of government-led rationing. In recent years, some politicians have openly called for it. For example, in an effort to shore up the state’s skyrocketing Medicaid budget—which, by the way, is largely the result of Medicaid expansion policies put into place by the Affordable Care Act—Massachusetts submitted a proposal to the federal government to reform its Medicaid program so that it could cut drug coverage options. (The Trump administration eventually rejected the plan.)

Writing for the Washington Examiner, Hadley Heath Manning, a senior policy analyst and director of policy at the Independent Women’s Forum, explained the “Massachusetts’ proposal includes… a ‘closed formulary’ for Medicaid beneficiaries. This means the program may offer only one drug per class (a class is something like antidepressants or anticonvulsants used to prevent seizures). For patients, this means the government will essentially dictate to physicians how to treat patients, interfering between patients and doctors.”63

For patients who rely on pharmaceuticals, this concept could lead to serious health care problems. People often respond very differently to multiple drugs in the same “class.” It is not uncommon for patients to try out a number of drugs to determine which one fits best with their body’s biochemistry. Effectively forcing patients to take drugs that might not work well for them would have a profound impact on people’s health and well-being. And yet, that’s exactly what Massachusetts attempted to do—all in the name of cutting costs, also called “rationing.”

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