Cable Television Service As A Metaphor For Obamacare

On our way down the street from our house going to church this morning, I saw a van with the side decorated to promote a cable television channel. Contact your cable provider to get XYZ channel added to your service. It struck me that this is an apt metaphor for healthcare insurance.

Not everyone needs or wants cable TV service, or health care payment insurance.

There may come a time when you wish you had access to a show, or a way to pay for a procedure, without having to do something extraordinary

If you don't have the channel service or insurance plan already in place, you will be out of luck.

To the Statists in our government, this is an unacceptable consequence of what should, by rights, be your own choice to make.

They would rather steal money from you at gunpoint, and force you to pay to make the choice they want you to make.

And the President says "You'd think they would be saying 'thank you'" for the privilege of not having the money you wanted, instead of a service you did not want.

You ought to be able to say "I'll take the chance of missing a show or being stuck with a hundred-thousand dollar medical debt" as a free American. But if you sign up for cable, your provider MUST give you access to local programming. And if you sign up for health care payment insurance, your provider MUST provide certain coverages. These MUSTs are dicated by your government, "for your own good."

What the Democrats did to you (never forget it was the Democrats) by passing Obamacare into law, is the metaphorical equivalent of charging you $150 a month for the premium cable package whether you wanted the programming or not. Included are ALL the sports channels, ALL the movie channels, ALL the music channels, plus a few you might have been paying the $20/month basic service rate for already. It doesn't matter that you will never watch Country Music Television's coverage of car racing. You will pay for it, or else.