Here is an interesting article from the highly-vaunted-finger-on-the-pulse-of-our-society Pueblo Chieftain:
Uninsured grow: 16 percent statewide without insurance
The article goes on about Pueblo County residents in particular.
An excerpt:
“When I looked at the initial ratings, that was a surprise to me,” said Ned Calonge, president and CEO of The Colorado Trust. “The reason behind it is that so many people in the county are on Medicare and Medicaid. It has to do with an increased amount of publicly funded care.”
Just yesterday, I heard a fellow express some rather cogent viewpoints on this. First, someone has to pay for the 'free' services. And, if the services are not entirely 'free', then someone has to pay for the subsidizing of those services.
The funding for all these government-provided Good Deals comes out of someone's pockets. Right? Does that not seem painfully obvious? Apparently it is not, to some of us.
In any case, the more money is taken from the pockets of those who actually work and pay taxes, so as to pay for those increased 'free' services, the more people 'qualify' for those increased 'free' services, and the drain on those whose pockets the government picks becomes greater. Soon, those people who are funding those 'free' services can no longer afford to do so, and they too qualify for those 'free' services. This reduces the pool of those from whom the government can suck blood, in the figurative sense. And so the government borrows money from the Chinaman to pay for all this, at least for the moment. ObamaCare, which as we all know is designed to take care of the 16 percenters throughout the state, is not going to make it any better. So far, our beloved rulers have not done too well with zeroing out the deficit with cuts here and there to pay for it, so that means that those of us who, for the moment, still can, will. Along with the Chinaman, who ain't doin' it out of the goodness of his collective heart.
It's a bit more complex than that, of course; you have to have the Nancy Pelosis and Wes McKinleys playing their political cards, and you have to have the rest of our beloved Congresscritters playing their political cards, posturing and pandering and telling us how hard they are 'fighting' for us.
Speaking of Ol' Cowboy Wes ... anyone seen him and/or his teepee since the cops started moving the squatters out? Has he been up there 'listening to the citizens'?
Here's an interesting tidbit, from the last La Junta Utility Board meeting. It doesn't have anything to do with 'free' healthcare, but it does have to do with the idea that someone has to pay for the stuff and services we use:
Minutes of the meeting of November 8
Is there anyone around here who isn't on 'fixed income'?
