Big One Coming

This time of year, down here on the Gulf Coast, we all keep a close eye on all the hurricane maps and the updated location of Jim Cantore.  Sometimes they dissipate, and sometimes you see a big monster building way off, that you know is going to be bad wherever it hits.

Never ones to miss a moment of exploitation, Big Insurance grabbed the federal COVID house money and did much better than their purported clients during the last 18 months of virus dystopia.  They provided some virtue cover by waiving patient costs associated with COIVD-19 illness and treatments…until now. 

The pro-single payer Kaiser Family Foundation (I’m certainly no fan) said 82% of all insurers will have ceased waiving COVID costs by the end of October.  While I certainly don’t begrudge any honest company making a profit, none of us need feel sorry for corrupt insurance companies fattened with over a decade of ObamaCare largesse, who have now gotten COVID stim’d, and will continue to fleece their clients with all the encouragements of crony corporatism. 

“But since vaccines became widely available in the U.S. and Americans began going back to the doctor, insurers gradually started pulling back on the waivers.”  Uh oh, that is a strong tropical depression southwest of the Azores over very warm water. 

To add display muscle to their authoritarianism, the Oval Office Occupant met with some bigwig CEO’s in another display of corporate cooperation  “The new vaccine mandate on many businesses is expected to cover 80 million Americans. CEOs and presidents of Disney, Microsoft, Walgreens, Kaiser Permanente Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and other leaders are participating in the meeting. The president said the mandate is about saving lives.”  Upgrade to a tropical storm.

Brandeis University’s Michael Doonan, the executive director of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum… said it would be difficult to charge a premium on an individual basis…”

How might we fix that?

“Companies who are negotiating with insurance companies, if they have a whole bunch of employees who are unvaccinated and their costs go up this year, next year their premiums are going to go through the roof,” Doonan said.”  And we can rely on a sympathetic Politburo to direct its “Justice” Department to amicus the hell out of those corporations which would then demand their employees get vaccinated. 

The Politburo has not YET figured out how to federally mandate that everyone from the womb to the morgue be vaccinated, but they are blowing around the compass to backdoor their desired result.  In the shorter run, companies will be encouraged by the threat of higher premiums to force their employers to get the jab; intermediately, evil Big Insurance will find a way to charge higher premiums to the unvaxxed.  It takes no imagination to see that within the coming year, these bastards will threaten to drop ALL coverage for ANYONE unvaccinated against the COVID Tau Variant.  The government will use the mandates of ObamaCare to enforce everyone maintaining coverage, and therefore, a de facto vaccine requirement.  Stock up on beer and ice, a big one’s coming.