Black people, we got to learn the value of reading and research for ourselves. I just happened to hear an interview on the radio the other day. The host was interviewing people on the streets on New York asking them who they were going to vote for. The 2 -3 people that he interviewed were college age (one, I think was about 32) and indicated that they were going to vote for Kerry. Anyway, he asked them very simple questions:

#1. Who were the two vice-presidents that were running against each other?

#2. Name one thing that Kerry has done that has convinced you to vote for him?

They could not answer either question! And oh yeah, THEY WERE BLACK.

Kerry’s grand health plan may sound awesome, but just a little research on it will reveal that it is nothing but crap. For some reason, many in the black community have fallen in love with the socialist concept of a class-less society in which everyone is treated as equals. Like this health plan, it sounds good, but has not and will not work. History has proven this failed ideology over and over again.

I have provided just the conclusion of this report compiled by The National Center of Policy Analysis (NCPA). Here is a little bit about them:

About the NCPA

The National Center of Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, established in 1983. The NCPA’s goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector…

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Ultimately, full implementation of the Kerry plan will lead to massive changes in our health care system. At the end of the process we will find a four-tiered health care system.

Tier one will be the Medicaid/SCHIP tier. Families will have limited choice of doctors, lengthy waits and rationing of care, much as we see in Medicaid today. Over time, as health costs rise and budget pressures mount, they will see more rationing of care. Today’s enrollees are all poor; millions of middle-class families will be added.

Tier two will look increasingly like the German system, which has had mandated employer coverage for about 90 percent of the population for many years and has recently introduced American-style managed competition. Pressures to hold down costs will lead to increased waiting times and less access to expensive medical technology  but not as bad as for Medicaid patients. The government may engage in nationwide negotiations with providers and impose limits on high tech equipment, as is done in Germany. 69 The pressures of managed competition will induce health plans to overprovide to the healthy and underprovide to the sick, which happens in Britain and Canada.

Tier three will consist of a small percent of the population (in Germany it’s about 10 percent) who can afford to opt out of the more general system of managed competition. They will pay more for their health insurance and they will pay higher doctors’ fees. They will experience less rationing by waiting and easier access to expensive technology, and they will probably receive better health care.

Tier four will consist of seniors who will remain in Medicare. The Bush presidency promised to give seniors access to the same full-service health plans as the rest of America. Under a Kerry presidency that hope would almost certainly evaporate. Cost pressures would induce the government to squeeze providers (as happens under the current system), leading to longer waits and more rationing – but not as bad as for Medicaid patients because seniors will continue to have more political power.

Overview. In the past, providers were able to shift some costs – from those who underpaid to those who overpaid. For example, inadequate payments from Medicaid and Medicare were made up by overcharging employers and private insurers. Regardless of who becomes the next president, competitive pressures in the provider community will intensify. Cost-shifting will become increasingly rare.

Under a Kerry presidency people will ultimately get the kind of care they and their insurers pay for. No more; no less.

(Full report)