Mathematically Speaking, Obamacare Cannot Survive

Mike Shedlock

Open issues abound on healthcare. Will the Supreme Court strike it down? If so, who is to blame? Who are the winners and losers? Will healthcare help or hurt the Republican chances?

First please consider Obama delivers warning over healthcare law

Mike Shedlock

Mike Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for Sitka Pacific Capital Management.

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MarilynBr Wrote: Apr 04, 2012 11:28 PM

Instead of mandating contraception, the government and society in general should be encouraging larger families so there will be more people to support social security and pay taxes.

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None1257 Wrote: Apr 04, 2012 12:53 PM

How can any such idea work, when the inflation rate for healthcare, is above the overall inflation rate?

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Joseph64 Wrote: Apr 05, 2012 8:48 AM

Because the overall inflation rate has been doctored for decades. It is NOT the true inflation rate.

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2ndamendment Wrote: Apr 04, 2012 11:34 AM

The Baby boom generation is now entering the phase of retirement and continued increases in spending on healthcare as a percentage of their income, savings depletion.
On an individual basis a person will spend literally every penny they have, every penny they can earn, every penny they can borrow to extend their life provided they have some hope that life will have some measure of quality to it. Some families become irrational and will ignore quality of life and simply spend everything on hope of life. It is up to society to place limits on how much debt we are willing to place on our children to support the healthcare needs of an aging population. Within families we must take back the right to determine what will happen within our...

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Kent147 Wrote: Apr 04, 2012 11:16 AM

Killing babies is now a "reproductive right". I think a better term would a "right to screw without consequences.

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GPeyton Wrote: Apr 04, 2012 10:51 AM

" 'We will look back on the period '09-'12 as a final central bank-induced asset reflationary cycle that eventually gave way to the forces of demographics, thermodynamics, debt deflation, and valuations.'
Whether Obamacare passes Supreme Court muster or not, mathematically speaking, healthcare cannot survive in its present form, nor can it survive in Obamacare form for reasons my friend BC explains."

How many decades will we lose in the process?

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Blair31 Wrote: Apr 04, 2012 9:58 AM

I guess I'm not the only one who's mathematically challenged.

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A_Nobody Wrote: Apr 04, 2012 9:08 AM

WE all know that Mike. Try to explain it to liberals though. Math doesn't seem to be their strong suit.

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patrickhenry_liberty Wrote: Apr 04, 2012 3:43 AM

The government our founders wanted was limited government.

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