I Really WONDER

[Milligan Hay - Iowa d:^)]

I really wonder if the same thing happened to food production , distribution of food, and compensation to the growers set by a panel of Central Government "deciders". Would you keep growing food for a set fee, let's say, a third or less of what you are making now.

What is happening to medicine will also happen to food production, next. It has to. It is how you keep your "subjects" in line and subservient.

[GreaTOne_65]

Geez, Craigo! I'm getting worried about your Mental Health! To much alfalfa tobacco?

[Milligan Hay - Iowa d:^)]

I have always wondered about YOUR mental health. Communism can't be very good for your health. What are you going to do when the Central Government "deciders" choose to tear up your White Oak Hill Top model airplane field to plant official Party Approved crops, instead?

[dairy mom]

Guess what we're dairy farmers and don't have a ding dong thing to say about what we get for our product.  We just pay what we have to in order to feed the darlings and keep you crop guys living high, then the government and "market" really our buyers tell us what they'll pay us.

[Milligan Hay - Iowa d:^)]

Yes, You already know the joys of living under a dictatorship. Hang in there, it can only get worse.

[Husker-J]

I would agree with that.   However, can you point me to ONE rule in Obamacare, that acutally adresses the COST of healthcare?

I ran my numbers through, and my 'total cost of coverage' actually is higher under Obamacare, than the plan I have now.   The only difference would be, that under Obamacare, they take some of your money, and apply it to my premiums, so that my personal out of pocket is less.   However, the total amount of money spent, is greater.

If you want to address cost, you need to give an incentive to get consumers to shop around, which would cause providers to get competetive with prices.   Simply getting someone else to pay for everything, at any cost, will do nothing to lower the overall cost, it will just shift it to others.

The only ways I can think of to lower the cost of something, long term, is to increase supply, or reduce demand.   You can increase supply by creating more competition, and you can reduce demand with rationing, but price-fixing will not work long-term.  

[schnurrbart]

Is that some more of that "if this happens, that will surely follow" fabrication????

[kraft-t]

Actully food is quite cheap if you buy ordinary staples and prepare them at home. It is food that is processed and prepared that is high priced.

Besides, there are so many options competing for the food dollars and consumers have a myriad of choices of healthy products to feed their family.

[kraft-t]

Sammy are you suggesting that any and all taxes should be voluntary? That being the case I am due a huge refund of revenues that were taken for purposes I am not in favor of.

[r3020]

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@kraft-t wrote:

Actully food is quite cheap if you buy ordinary staples and prepare them at home. It is food that is processed and prepared that is high priced.

Besides, there are so many options competing for the food dollars and consumers have a myriad of choices of healthy products to feed their family.

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Food is not nearly as cheap as birth control.