Memories of the 28th Century

Even the sharks have to eat, but I prefer to avoid being the food. I won’t even begrudge the sharks who own or work for Bank of America (as Nation’s Bank is now called) or JPMorgan Chase (as Manufacturers’ Hanover Trust is now called) or any other of those pirates and sharks who run banks and insurance companies, but I resent being forced by law to feed them, and that’s what obamacare is about. Obama sold himself to the sharks, and I hope that he got a good price, but I won’t pay it. If Obama wants to feed the sharks, that’s his problem.

It has been widely known for several hundred years that insurance is a sucker bet. The insurance companies get rich and the fish food pay generously to assist in enriching those sharks. As long as buying insurance is a personal choice it doesn't make much difference that it is a scam. Those of us who can tell a scam when we see one can sit back and chuckle, and the shark bait eventually realize that they have been taken. But it takes on a significantly different nature when a government requires that one buy insurance. That makes it a tax to support insurance companies, and taxes are supposed to be for public benefit; although we, the people, often have trouble finding any public benefit in taxes..

After I realized what was going on I hated being required to buy automobile insurance, but there is some rational for it, and most of the insurance is to cover potential liabilities. I found ways to minimize the cost, but I didn't like it. When obamacare was passed I was furious, and I still am. Medical insurance is almost as much of a scam as life insurance. I didn't mind medical insurance when an employer paid, but when it started costing me money, I started to cut it, until I dropped it complexly. I almost wish that I had saved all of my records, so that I could figure out how much I have paid for medical insurance and compare that to what I have expended for medical care. I have paid much, much more for insurance, but I don’t know whether it has been five times as much or twenty-five times as much, or even more.

The way that it works out, obamacare will take money from the healthy to keep the unhealthy alive, and make insurance companies even richer than they are. I have no great opposition to treating medical conditions, and if people want to go to physicians, they should, but they should go on their own coins, not on other people's money. On the other hand, I have no desire for insurance companies to be kept alive at all, and much less on money that the government is having sent to them from unsuspecting people who think they may get something for their money.

As and aside, does anyone want to start an insurance company with me? It might be even better than taking over the Phoenix Islands. We could collect premiums and distribute them among ourselves. The people looking for payouts would just be trying to engage in insurance fraud. We could be billionaires in less than a decade.

Another way to correct the problem would be to get Congress to pass and the president to sign a law that will hand me several million a year. That would be as fair and reasonable as the deal that insurance companies got from Congress and the president, and we all know that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment bans laws that do not treat everyone equally. I just want equal treatment; I want people to be forced to send me money for no purpose.

I know, someone who opposes the Equal Protection Clause will claim that the insurance companies are entitled to more, because they are operating a gambling scheme. Well, I should get special treatment, because I'm not defrauding anyone. Or maybe I should get special treatment, because I am asking for it, and because I am entitled to equal treatment.

Regardless of why, I am not being treated the same as the medical insurance companies, The federal constitution doesn't grant to the federal government the power to force citizens to expend money simply because the feds want to feed their friends and future employers in the insurance industry. Was that an oversight, or should an amendment be passed that says that everyone has to send a bunch of money to a medical insurance?

Other opinions are encouraged.