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The debate is over and the science is settled, beloved reader. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is lacking in business and economic sense on every conceivable level.
The 2020 Democratic candidate said in an interview last week that health insurance workers laid off by her disastrous ‘Medicare for All’ plan switch over to the auto and life insurance industries upon the inevitable receipt of their pink slips.
“Where do those who work in health insurance go when private insurance is eliminated?” a reporter asked the Massachusetts Democrat on Friday.
Warren responded by saying, “No one gets left behind.”
She later added, “Some of the people currently working in health insurance will work in other parts of insurance. In life insurance, in auto insurance, in car insurance.”
Warren’s tone-deaf response is startling.
More concerning, however, is the fact that the 2020 Democrat contender’s long-awaited Medicare for All funding plan Friday, which calls for $20 trillion in taxes on employers, financial firms, giant corporations, and the top 1{46ff1f14221e6e90aab6104ff16614ca22b12c1f029f774ee196565ca96b3af3} of earners and is predicted to result in a total national healthcare spending of $59 trillion over a decade. This at a time when the United States’ national debt just surpassed an extraordinary $23 trillion dollars and government spending is running an annual deficit of more than $1 trillion.
There is an apparent belief in Washington by both political parties that debts no longer matter and our day of financial reckoning will never come, that we can grow our way out of a spending hole that’s been several days in the making. Unlikely, but cold facts and economic reality make for campaign platforms.
The good news, however, is that if Americans are forcibly ushered into a government healthcare system, our generation is doomed to suffer an astonishing drop in average life expectancy. Chances are, we’ll all be dead with the day of reckoning arrives.
The Chicks on the Right have more on Warren’s healthcare comments in the clip below.
