Well, who knew? Apparently August 26 is Women's Equality Day. I got an email about it from OFA (Obama's Organizing for Action PAC) but didn't open it. It was entitled "What will you do to help, Michael", so I didn't realize how important it was. Perhaps they should take some lessons from CNN (see previous post).
I have been on their mailing list since the group was created, 2009 I think. Lots of laughs in some respects but quite dismal in others. As you can imagine they don't see things quite the way we do.
The author of the email,
Traci Wile
Director of Community Engagement
Organizing for Action
informs me that while much progress has been made in the fight to gain equal rights for women there is much more to be done.
Several specific issues are highlighted.
As everyone on the left "knows" women do not earn as much as men because, well, they never tell you the reason or explain how this is possible, since it is a violation of black letter law protecting women's civil rights to pay them less than a man for doing the same work and has been for a very long time.
What they cannot tell you, because most non-socialists would say "So what?" is that the reason women, as a group, earn less than men, as a group, is that more women tend to work in low paying jobs than men do.
If they were to expose their real agenda it would go something like this:
Teachers are very important and should be paid much more than they are currently. Maybe, but who is going to pay for their increased pay? Right, we are and that is a loser of an argument so they continue to attempt to persuade us that women are paid less for doing the same work as men which we would all find unacceptable.
As I mentioned before that is not only untrue it is illegal, and the consequences of such practises can be very expensive. There is an entire federal bureaucracy dedicated to policing just this sort of thing.
You all have working women in your lives. Do you know a single one who would stand still for being paid less than the guy in the next cubicle for doing the same work? I don't either.
Oh and,
"Basic health care and contraceptive rights for women are under attack."
What?
Well it is true that we are intent on repealing Obamacare completely. Does that mean "Basic Health care (for women)...is under attack"? In a word, no.
There were 10.7 million people enrolled in Obamacare as of March 2017. Of those I am guessing at least half are men and minors. So about 5,000,000 women. Does Ms. Wile not care about anyone but her own tribe!
So, in Ms. Wile's fantasy the basic health care of women is "under attack". It is estimated that there are currently about 165,000,000 adult women living in America. If Ms. Wile's assertion is about women's basic health care being under attack, that "attack" would be threatening about 3% of women. Those covered by Obamacare. Not women generally. Do you have any doubt that she knows that? I don't either but it wouldn't make anywhere near as good a story.
There is no one making the argument that the people providing health insurance to most of the other approximately 160,000,000 women in this country, Medicare, Medicaid, Veteran's Administration or private insurers is "attacking" women's policies.
As to contraception, if anyone can make a logical case for mandated insurance coverage for women's contraceptives I would like to see it because I have not seen it yet.
My fundamental objection to the notion is simple. Whatever an insurance company pays for is spread among its insureds. I see no reason at all that a single male or a gay male or any male at all should contribute a dime toward the cost of contraception for anyone who is not his significant other. None.
There is an interesting potential parallel to this issue. Should taxpayers who do not have children be forced to pay school taxes?
Is it possible that the reason those of us without kids in the public school system contribute is the general public benefit conferred by the education and socializing of children we live in close proximity too?
There seems to be a curious connection between these two discussions. Maybe I should reconsider and contribute to every woman's contraception needs if she, in turn, will promise not to send any children she does have to public school. That system would wither and die and I could stop paying school taxes.
Showing posts with label Obamacare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obamacare. Show all posts
Friday, August 31, 2018
Tuesday, May 09, 2017
Good Faith, Health Care Edition
I have written before of the critical role good faith plays in any meaningful discussion. I have written before that there does not appear to be any good faith on the left. They keep proving me, unfortunately, correct.
The House passed an Obamacare reform act last week. The world ended.
Courtesy of Senator Kamala Harris (D CA) this gem of lie..
"If you're one of the up to 129M people who have a pre-existing condition, share your story with me today & I’ll RT some throughout the day."
As the Senator (and former Attorney General of California) must know most
Americans get their health insurance through their employment. Consideration of pre-existing conditions has been unlawful in group policies for over 30 years, as she also surely knows.
The subject of the legislation she is vilifying is Obamacare. How many people are insured by Obamacare? Well, according to the Senator's home state paper of record, The L.A. Times, as published on March 29th of this year,
That is correct, 9.1 million people. Perhaps each of those 9.1 million has 14,175,824 pre-existing conditions, thus her 129,000,000. Probably not.
She isn't done yet. As the chart above makes clear, 290,200,000 Americans have health insurance. I'm guessing, since the entire population of the country is about 330,000,000 that at least a few of the 290,200,000 are not in the top 5% income wise, the privileged few, in other words. There are, by definition, no more than 16,500,000 people in that cohort. Probably far fewer since there are about 73,000,000 minors in the US and few of them are likely to have achieved top 5% income status on their own.
" Health care should not be a privilege for a few, but a right for all. The bill that passed earlier today won’t do that." Says the Senator. Indeed, says I, and thank goodness it isn't a "privilege for a few". Is it a right then? No. Just another service we buy or receive in some other manner.
Not to be outdone, a writer named Joan McCarter published a well informed piece under the following headline,
As you can imagine it is replete with nonsense. Have a look if you have the stomach for it.
If you do you will notice that every link supporting her hysteria is to a left wing or far left wing publication or organization. The definition of living in a bubble.
She ends the piece with this bit of hilarity.
"Here’s another consequence: we will make the political life of every Republican who voted for this a living hell."
It would be nice if we could actually discuss things with the left but it seems to be impossible, so bereft of good faith are they.
The House passed an Obamacare reform act last week. The world ended.
Courtesy of Senator Kamala Harris (D CA) this gem of lie..
"If you're one of the up to 129M people who have a pre-existing condition, share your story with me today & I’ll RT some throughout the day."
As the Senator (and former Attorney General of California) must know most
Americans get their health insurance through their employment. Consideration of pre-existing conditions has been unlawful in group policies for over 30 years, as she also surely knows.
The subject of the legislation she is vilifying is Obamacare. How many people are insured by Obamacare? Well, according to the Senator's home state paper of record, The L.A. Times, as published on March 29th of this year,
That is correct, 9.1 million people. Perhaps each of those 9.1 million has 14,175,824 pre-existing conditions, thus her 129,000,000. Probably not.
She isn't done yet. As the chart above makes clear, 290,200,000 Americans have health insurance. I'm guessing, since the entire population of the country is about 330,000,000 that at least a few of the 290,200,000 are not in the top 5% income wise, the privileged few, in other words. There are, by definition, no more than 16,500,000 people in that cohort. Probably far fewer since there are about 73,000,000 minors in the US and few of them are likely to have achieved top 5% income status on their own.
" Health care should not be a privilege for a few, but a right for all. The bill that passed earlier today won’t do that." Says the Senator. Indeed, says I, and thank goodness it isn't a "privilege for a few". Is it a right then? No. Just another service we buy or receive in some other manner.
Not to be outdone, a writer named Joan McCarter published a well informed piece under the following headline,
As you can imagine it is replete with nonsense. Have a look if you have the stomach for it.
If you do you will notice that every link supporting her hysteria is to a left wing or far left wing publication or organization. The definition of living in a bubble.
She ends the piece with this bit of hilarity.
"Here’s another consequence: we will make the political life of every Republican who voted for this a living hell."
It would be nice if we could actually discuss things with the left but it seems to be impossible, so bereft of good faith are they.
Thursday, January 19, 2017
Other People's Money
Every weekday I receive Jim Geraghty's National Review "Morning Jolt" via email.
Today's version examines some of our Obama experiences. He includes this:
"As Matthew Fleischer wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2013, “Most young, middle-class Americans I know are happy that millions of previously uninsured people will receive free or heavily subsidized insurance under the Affordable Care Act. We just didn’t realize that, unless we had health insurance at work, we’d be the ones paying for it.”"
The never ending lamentation of the left. More stuff for everyone! Find someone else to pay for it!
Lefty's are always very generous...with other people's money.
Today's version examines some of our Obama experiences. He includes this:
"As Matthew Fleischer wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2013, “Most young, middle-class Americans I know are happy that millions of previously uninsured people will receive free or heavily subsidized insurance under the Affordable Care Act. We just didn’t realize that, unless we had health insurance at work, we’d be the ones paying for it.”"
The never ending lamentation of the left. More stuff for everyone! Find someone else to pay for it!
Lefty's are always very generous...with other people's money.
Monday, November 18, 2013
Obamacare, Pelosi, Garrett et al
Following the implosion of Obamacare has been at once great fun and very frustrating.
Great fun because it almost always is when liberal programs bump into reality. Ah yes, those brilliant technocrats. They know what is best and how to accomplish it.
It is always the same of course; Have meetings, give speeches, lie as needed to persuade your listeners that you are not doing what you are doing. And then the fun part, ducking the blowback. They are not doing quite as well at the last part as usual and it is great fun to watch them all squirm.
The frustrating part is the apparent cluelessness of many of the people interviewing the latest crop of miscreants.
There is the clip of Nancy Pelosi being grilled by Major Garrett about the "Big Lie". Her answers are incoherent, as usual. She prattles on about the goal of the ACA being to make sure everyone has the coverage they need. Garrett fails to ask the obvious...Really? 60 year old couples need maternity and pediatric coverage? Goodness, how did we survive not having coverage we cannot ever, ever use?
Any structure built on a financial footing so deceitful that in order to charge customers what you really need to charge them to make your product work you have to include phantom benefits because you could not otherwise sell it is doomed.
Great fun because it almost always is when liberal programs bump into reality. Ah yes, those brilliant technocrats. They know what is best and how to accomplish it.
It is always the same of course; Have meetings, give speeches, lie as needed to persuade your listeners that you are not doing what you are doing. And then the fun part, ducking the blowback. They are not doing quite as well at the last part as usual and it is great fun to watch them all squirm.
The frustrating part is the apparent cluelessness of many of the people interviewing the latest crop of miscreants.
There is the clip of Nancy Pelosi being grilled by Major Garrett about the "Big Lie". Her answers are incoherent, as usual. She prattles on about the goal of the ACA being to make sure everyone has the coverage they need. Garrett fails to ask the obvious...Really? 60 year old couples need maternity and pediatric coverage? Goodness, how did we survive not having coverage we cannot ever, ever use?
Any structure built on a financial footing so deceitful that in order to charge customers what you really need to charge them to make your product work you have to include phantom benefits because you could not otherwise sell it is doomed.
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