From Obamacare hero to zero in 48 hours

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http://www.examiner.com/article/from...-zero-48-hours

From Obamacare hero to zero in 48 hours

Chad Henderson, who became a leftwing media darling after posting on Facebook that he had bought affordable healthcare for the first time in his life is backtracking on his story, after his father denied his claims. Besides lying about enrolling in Obamacare, Henderson failed to reveal that he has been a volunteer for Obama's Organizing for America. since 2007, which makes him less than unbiased.

Furthermore, the $175 dollars a month premium that represents 30% of his before tax income as opposed to the $44.72 a month he could have bought the same policy for on EHealthInsurance.com before Obamacare took effect. Therefore, his claim of affordable is questionable as well.

When Henderson was confronted by statements made by his father, he admitted that he did not buy coverage as he had claimed to do. He says the confusion came about because of his lack of knowledge about the two part system. Henderson stated that it would have been naive of him to price and buy healthcare on the same day.

Henderson had placed a posting on his Facebook account, which said, “Today, on the opening day of ‘ObamaCare,’ me and my dad enrolled in it and got quality, affordable health care insurance for the first time.” His father did not purchase insurance either and in fact never applied to either.

The Washington Post, Politico, The Huffington Post hailed the Henderson narrative as a success story in the Obamacare fiasco, the first one reporters had been able to uncover. Not one of those papers bothered to see if Henderson had indeed bought insurance through the Obamacare program.

Before his deception was uncovered, he had been asked to be part of a conference call for the Department of Health and Human Services. HHS head Kathleen Sebelius had tweeted about Henderson on an account called @Obamacare run by Organizing for Action, for which Henderson is a volunteer.

Wow, so turns out I was right - that whenever the state becomes involved in something, the prices are jacked up because the state is unable to make correct spending decisions as it doesn't have any money of it's own. Put in simple terms, it's this -

The Milton Friedman spending graph.

And the same applies to the NHS which engages in the most horrific wastes of money.

But keep on believin' your getting 'free' healthcare provided to you just because you don't get direct medical bills sent to you. The blunt and honest truth is that government healthcare is more expensive than a private system of healthcare, with worse treatment and higher costs - because you get charged for it at the end of the day just through taxes rather than a yearly bill.

Thoughts?

[Ardemax]

Why is then that America's healthcare system has been doing 'wonders' for the past however many years (money and care wise)? Surely there's exceptions to both sides...

[Kardan]

Is this not an article about some guy posting something on Facebook that turned out to be a lie?

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Why is then that America's healthcare system has been doing 'wonders' for the past however many years (money and care wise)? Surely there's exceptions to both sides...

I could ask the same for the NHS.

But the problem with the US Healthcare system is that it's so regulated and subsidised already by the government that it's a halfway house on the road to the NHS. I'll give an example - prior to the medicare/other subsidies, doctors and hospitals gave reduced or even free care to the poorest as an act of charity. Now that the government offers to subsidise or completely pay for the healthcare of those who cannot afford it, the hospitals charge full whack because it's government money and no longer an act of charity - this not only pushes prices up in general (as the healthcare companies know the stupid government will pay whatever price as government is unable to budget) but also leads to fraud, corruption and at the end of the day who pays for it? the poorest paying taxes.

The NHS itself is an example of this, although most people do not know this as the NHS has been wrapped up in mythical banner and treated as some holy cow - what most people don't know is that prior to nationalised healthcare in Britain (the NHS), healthcare was already free for the poorest using a system of some government subsidies and mainly private charity. All the NHS did was essentially extend 'free' healthcare to the richest in the country.

Is this not an article about some guy posting something on Facebook that turned out to be a lie?

Partly, but it's also to teach the general message to naive young people that healthcare isn't free and can't be free.