Via WeaselZippers:
Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.
Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.
“Of course, I want people to have health care,” Vinson said. “I just didn’t realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.” [emphasis mine]
Ayn Rand called this one 56 years ago. From Atlas Shrugged:
Mistakes of this size are never made innocently. If men fall for some vicious piece of insanity, when they have no way to make it work and no possible reason to explain their choice – it’s because they have a reason that they do not wish to tell. And we weren’t so innocent, either, when we voted for that plan at the end of the first meeting. We didn’t do it just because we believed that the drippy, old guff they spewed was good. We had another reason, but the guff helped us to hide it from our neighbors and from ourselves. The guff gave us a chance to pass off as virtue something that we’d be ashamed to admit otherwise. There wasn’t a man voting for it who didn’t think that under a setup of this kind he’d muscle in on the profits of the men abler than himself. There wasn’t a man rich and smart enough but that he didn’t think that somebody was richer and smarter, and this plan would give him a share of his better’s wealth and brain. But while he was thinking that he’d get unearned benefits from the men above, he forgot about the men below who’d get unearned benefits, too. He forgot about all his inferiors who’d rush to drain him just as he hoped to drain his superiors. The worker who liked the idea that his need entitled him to a limousine like his boss’s, forgot that every bum and beggar on earth would come howling that their need entitled them to an icebox like his own. That was our real motive when we voted – that was the truth of it – but we didn’t like to think it, so the less we liked it, the louder we yelled about our love for the common good. [emphasis mine]
How about just punching anyone who refers to having INSURANCE as “health care”? Try going to the emergency room and see who gets the better “health care”. If you think it’s the person with insurance, you’re probably an Obama voter.
They vote independent? What, they take separate cars?
NoMoBama, voting “independent” in the Bay Area means that they’re card-carrying members of the CPUSA, but they support Democrats in national elections.
Can we just start calling them Demunnists? That way there’s still a D after the name since that’s all that matters.
Ayn Rand saw these people coming probably before they were born.
@4 – Ayn Rand saw these people when their idiot grandparents were voting Roosevelt into a third term.
And when their idiot great-grandparents were declaring Russia’s communist revolution a “noble experiment in economic justice” instead of a slaughterhouse.
OMG! You quoted Ayn Rand!
YGDFT! YLTATSOTE!!
@6 Heh – Most Appropriate Callback Ever Bacon to you, sir!
ALL of the money to support an entire society’s wants and needs is supposed to come from the greedy 1%. If you are not in the 1%, you are not supposed “to pay for it personally” – the libtards really believe that it is possible for an entire trillion-dollar budget to be balanced squarely on the backs of a handful of billionaires. Pathetic.
Life is full of surprises for imbeciles. They’re probably totally stunned when the sun comes up in the morning.