December 04, 2011 journal, if you have any pre existing condition you will not be able to buy insurance even though this abomination healthcare bill supposedly ends pre-existing. Yo No Soy Marinero, Soy Capitan! Posted by Ann Barnhardt - October 17, 1. First, a FANTASTIC piece from Market-Ticker.org wherein KD speaks the truth in no uncertain terms about insurance and this total, complete bee-ess about forcing insurance companies to sell policies to people with pre-existing conditions. This is just sublime: If you have a "pre-existing" condition then you're not buying insurance. Remember what insurance actually is: A small payment made to someone in order to obtain pooled risk against an unlikely but catastrophic event that one either cannot or chooses not to reserve against on one's own. By its very nature insurance is a negative-sum game. That is, if you take all the bad outcomes that happen across the insured population and sum their costs, the cost of the insurance purchased by that population must exceed the sum of the costs. It cannot be otherwise or the insurance company will cease to exist as it will make continual losses and eventually run out of capital. As such if the catastrophic event already happened you're not negotiating for "insurance"; you are now trying to lay off the cost of mitigating the damage that has already occurred on someone else ex-post-facto. The common word for that attempted act is theft. It is THEFT. It is a crime. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Let the truth ring out. Praise God. Do you honestly think that these jackals in .gov don't understand this? Of course they do. They keep perpetuating this lie because they want the masses utterly dependent upon THEM, and controlling health care is at the top of that list, and in order to do that you have to destroy the healthcare market. Insurance is the tool of that destruction. When you people come out the other side of this collapse and war, one thing you will need to do is to outlaw non-catastrophic health insurance coverage. I think the way to do that is to tie it to a person's income somehow. Make the MINIMUM deductible something like 20% of gross income. And remember, after the collapse there shouldn't be an income tax at all, so that isn't as high as it seems. Insurance, if permitted to move beyond coverage of catastrophic events and into the realm of the mundane, will always destroy whatever marketplace it touches because it removes all price point feedback, thus driving the market to an inevitable government monopoly. Now you see why the tyrant oligarchs have used insurance as one of their primary weapons against the economy. Their plan has worked to perfection. Medicare and ObamaCare have totally and completely destroyed the United States. It is now mathematically impossible to fix or walk back the debt. Critical mass has been reached, implosion and war are now guaranteed, and the First American Republic is a dead man walking. Remember this. It is so critical. 2. My economic presentation is done and has been presented to a live audience once. It went very, very well. It was two hours and twenty minutes. Those with brains will find it to be the shortest 2:20 of their life. Those without brains, and thus with no attention span will never get through it, but then, I didn't make it for them. I made it for those of you who will be the leaders of the rebuilding, and stupid people should not and must not be leaders. We've had decades of imbecilic leadership, and it is my earnest prayer that the age of stupidity is coming to an end in Western Civilization and the intelligent people in society will once again assert themselves. Hopefully I can get the videotaping done soon and get it up on YouTube before it is too late. pfft 3. In that spirit of reminding you all that you are going to have to learn to be leaders, and just because KD's piece made me feel like dancing a bit, here is the Los Lobos cover of Ritchie Valens' "La Bamba". The mariachi riff at the end is just killer." Remember, just keep telling yourself: Yo no soy marinero, (I am not a sailor,) Soy Capitan! (I'm the Captain!)