Another Group Gets Their Eyes Forced Open – Maybe
Well, here we go. Another group is raising hell about having to pay a fee for not having the “proper” kind of healthcare. Predictably, they don’t much like it.
Seems students at Cornell are being “strongly encouraged” to join the University’s healthcare system. For those that don’t, there’s now a mandatory fee for not joining up. That’s true even if the individual doesn’t need it because they are already covered by other legally-mandatory health insurance.
If you ask me, that sounds quite reminiscent of the “wonderful system” commonly called Obamacare. There’s a penalty for opting out there, too – even if you don’t believe you need it.
Yeah, right. Cornell’s students get little sympathy from me. That’s what happens when a regime that merely gives lip service to concepts of individual liberty and freedom – but in reality aspires to be a Soviet-style dictatorship controlling every aspect of people’s lives – is in power. They’ll tell you what you must do, and take away choices you previously had.
Besides: by and large, their parents voted for such a regime an Administration in DC. Why should they expect anything different at Cornell?
Category: Health Care debate
I was reading something about socialism last week (probably American Thinker), to the effect, “If it isn’t forbidden, it’s compulsory.”
Yep. That about describes it. Power and control. Over EVERYTHING. And making a total hash of it.
The phrase is actually quite famous, and has a name: the Totalitarian Principle. The original version was, “Everything not forbidden is compulsory.”
The phrase originated with British author T. H. White, in his collection “The Once and Future King”. Significantly, White used the phrase to describe an anthill from the point of view of an ant. The phrase was supposedly posted at each entrance to the anthill to remind the ants how to behave.
It is the most succinct – and most accurate – description of pure totalitarianism I’ve ever seen.
Hondo,
Thanks. I keep hearing that, but didn’t know its origin.
Another saying that comes to mind over this is “A conservative is a Libtard that’s been bitch slapped by reality.”
I have to wonder how these illiterate yutes will vote in the future? Will they reject the teachings of their Marxist professors, or sink deeper into the koolaide?
Reality is a harsh mistress.
I thought it was the Moon that was a harsh mistress. (smile)
Saem difference.
The moon and Karma are both harsh mistresses….voting to foist an wanted financial debacle on others and then having it end up on top of you as well is Karma at her best, there is a joy for me when I see idiots like these folks at Cornell reaping the harvest from the seeds of idiocy sown by their parents.
Where’s your messiah now?
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Here is a response from Cornell.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/02/university-responds-student-health-fee-questions
The way I read it, Cornell created the campus-wide health care system and borrowed money and dug into reserves in order to do it. Now they really like it but they cannot afford to keep doing it for nothing. If they let some people opt out, they won’t earn enough money to pay for it. And, paraphrasing, they think it is a really great plan and students who are covered by insurance have a total of 1,000 different plans and it would be impossible for the campus plan to contact with every one of them — as though that is the only choice.
Sounds like someone had a great idea and went ahead with it then discovered that their customers didn’t agree with them.
Richard…Thanks for the article and Hondo thank you for this thread. In reading the article what came to mind is this. Here is a premier university which among its many mathematics experts on staff, never seemed to run a “future projections and outcomes” spreadsheet for this program. They went with a sound good idea and funded it without looking at the future financial upkeep to sustain it. Then when the truth shit hit the fan, they laid these brain dead, blinders on, fees on the students as a mandatory cost. But then again, it’s Cornell and the average cost of attendance for an out of state freshman in shy of $58K. So, knowing the types of parents who send there kids to this liberal mind warping and molding institution, I say, GOOD! How’s the medicine taste when you ass holes have to take it?
Sounds just like a same /similar Big Gubbment program that we all know and loath.
Spot on analysis, Richard. Cornell put the system in place without the consideration that most students are covered by their parents’ plans. Their administrators are also out of touch with students and family perceptions. Cornell is incredibly expensive, and $350 is a tiny percentage of the cost. However, fairness and a perception of being ‘nickle and dimed’ can invoke pretty strong reactions.
‘Customers’ rarely agree with tuition and fee increases, but especially the case when there is no tangible benefit tied to an increase.
Wow! Cornell University came up with their VERY OWN version of the “Affordable Health Care Act”, all by themselves??
Gee whiz. When I was in college, back in the Dark Ages of the 1960s and 1970s, we paid tuition and fees. The fees included any lab fees, library fees and insurance fees (premiums). We got student ID cards, which covered all of that. We paid those fees at the start of the school year. It was a simple plan and it worked.
How come things that worked back then were discarded by these idiots in favor of things that don’t work now?
Got to pay for those Golden Parachutes somehow
Nah, mommy and daddy are footing the bill, and frankly, that “fee” is a drop in the bucket of their $60k/yr Latte Preparation/Navel Gazing degree.
I’m quite glad I have those pieces of paper that say my ‘coverage’ is ‘satisfactory’ and ‘approved’.
I sometimes wonder what the homeless guy who sells newspapers on the street corner gets in the way of howbadismycare… or if he even gets any at all. Not all of those guys have meedicaid, you know.
Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it?
$47,050.00 per year, plus $2300 for health insurance and the university reached almost 5 billion in 2014.
Here’s the hard lesson for the kiddies at Cornell, it’s about your education sure, but it’s also about Cornell. That $200,000 you will spend to be educated there will help enrich the school greatly, and when you are gone they will hound you for the rest of your days to “help” them succeed in the future on additional monies you can send….
I hardly feel sorry for the spoiled rich kids at Cornell whining about $350 fucking dollars. You don’t like the schools business model go somewhere else and stop your crying like the spoiled little twatwaffles you are.
Don’tcha just love it when some naive little darlin’ gets a big, fat dose of reality?
It gives me that warm, fuzzy feeling when I hear them howling.
Oh the joy of doing tax returns this year. I wish I could video the responses when I tell them they are paying a penalty for not having health care.
The vast majority who have to pay the penalty either do not vote or are Democrats. I ask.
Ahhhh, just basking in the “Change” every day.
Been snickering over this for a couple of days now …
These students need to stop and think a minute and ask themselves, do we really want to return to the pre-omamacare days when bodies of injured and ill people littered the streets; when just to visit someone in a hospital, we had to step over those who were tossed out of the emergency room; when inner-city moms had to give birth in the bus station for want of maternity care; when Americans were permitted to decide for themselves whether they wanted health insurance or pay out-of-pocket for the rare need to visit a doctor. It was a horror, wasn’t it?
That’s Mexico, silly.
I’m thinking 2/17 Air Cav was being satirical above, Ex-PH2.
Unfortunately, making a point with satire and not identifying it as such may not be a good idea today. Many on the left today IMO seem either too brainwashed or too freaking stupid to recognize satire.
Oh poor babies it just sucks to be them learning that hard lesson in socialism and just maybe all that pablum their liberal professors have been shoving down their collective throats throughout their college careers really does suck and that elections really do have consequences. Absolutely no sympathy for these whiney ass crybabies!