THE SECOND LAW – ENTROPY
The self named “Social Democrats”, a kinder and gentler name for “Communists”, would seem to be on the move in re-making your fathers Democratic Party with promises to make most everything “Free” or nearly Free by taxing the wealthy. They seem illiterate to history. What they seek has been tried on multiple occasions in history and always fails. One needs only to look at recent history in places like Cuba and Venezuela to see the stark reality of the failed illusions of Communism.
Dense Urban areas and poorly managed, dysfunctional Large Cities are ripe breeding grounds for the Second Law of Thermodynamics Entropy and magnets for Social Democrat/Communist movements where “Government controls everything” and become corrupt wastelands and where the “Rich” are either taxed into oblivion, or more often pack up and move to “greener tax me less pastures”, taking with them the jobs and the productive workers they employed. In the inevitable bankrupt debris left behind the now defunct Urban Area or City falls easy prey to the immutable Second Law of Thermodynamics which gives us the certainty of “Entropy” where “Order” and “Certainty” will over time always lead to “Disorder” and “Uncertainty” i.e. “Chaos” and “Ruin” and the formerly orderly Urban Area or promising City becomes a Crime Ridden Cesspool filled with “Needy Broken Humanity” living in “Fear, Filth, Drugs and Anger”. Entropy Wins!
You might want to dig up or order a copy of the movie “Escape From New York” to get a view of a major city which has succumbed to Entropy. If our real life modern day New York wants to avoid the effects of Entropy it must return to physical and financial discipline and not allow itself to be ruled by a “Brain Dead Rabble” of irresponsible misfits who will “chase” out of town responsible Businesses and Corporate Employers who generate the revenue to support good government.
As we in America celebrate the 250th year of our Freedom we find our government being attacked from within and without by a “Rabble” demanding things like Medicare for “All”, where “All” includes “Everybody” including Citizens and “Non-Citizens”. Those who work and those who have never worked. Those who contribute to the public good and those who refuse to contribute.
The idea of “Medicare for all” has the siren call of sounding good and was looked into in great depth way back during the Clinton Administration. Ultimately even its most ardent supporters found that it was unworkable with a cost that would triple or quadruple our nations annual budget and bankrupt the country in a couple of years.
I have written on this subject twice with my original piece from January of 2019 being repeated below. When reading this pay careful attention to what the costs / premiums would be for a family of five (in 2019 dollars). Contrary to what the Social Democrats would have you believe, Medicare is NOT FREE. We folks on Medicare pay monthly premiums for it. If implemented who is going to pay the premiums and costs for those who do not work and pay taxes into the system?
My 2019 Article follows below
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MEDICARE FOR ALL?
With the opening of the new Congress and change to Democratic control of the House of Representatives we are hearing renewed calls for “Medicare For All” residents of the United States. This has become a rallying cry for the “Progressive” wing of the Democratic Party. Not all Democrats are admitted “Progressives” but a growing number appear to be.
“Progressive” is a kinder and gentler word for “Socialist” and some champions for this cause readily admit to Socialist leanings. Socialist is in turn, often associated with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Russia and other Socialist countries like Venezuela, Cuba and many others.
If you would like an example of living in a Socialist Country, you might want to vacation in Venezuela this year. Make it soon. The country is in “end stage” Economic Collapse.
“Medicare For All” has a nice “ring” to it and on the surface would appear to be a way to provide Universal Medical Care to everyone on a simplified, single payer basis. The idea sounds simple enough to be attractive.
A similar proposal was studied under Bill Clinton’s Presidency with Hillary Clinton heading up a task force to work out a plan for implementation. After much study and spending millions of dollars on the proposed idea it was ultimately determined to be unworkable.
Several studies have been done and reported in Bloomberg and other outlets that place the estimated cost of such a proposed plan at between 32 Trillion and 42 Trillion Dollars over 10 years. That’s about 3.2 Trillion to 4.2 Trillion Dollars a year and would approximately double current Federal Spending.
It should be noted that Medicare as it currently operates is on the road to Bankruptcy. Government Trustees, including Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, issued a report that Medicare’s trust fund will run out in 2026 and the combined trust funds of Social Security will run out in 2034. Source: The Washington Examiner – Saturday January 26, 2019 – from a report by Joseph Lawler June 05, 2018.
Many people believe that Medicare is “Free” healthcare for Senior Citizens. It is not. Medicare is not free. Premiums for Medicare are based in part on income – visit: MyMedicare.Gov – but if I take myself as an example, I’m a pretty ordinary Senior on a modest income, the following shows my Medicare Medical Insurance and Medicare Prescription Plan monthly premiums for this year. Keep in mind that plan premiums are for each individual. Mine total just a bit over $300 a month this year. If on a “Medicare For All” plan and I was one of a family of five, we could be paying a total premium of $1,500 a month.
Please keep in mind also that Medicare Medical Insurance does not cover everything and has co-pays, deductibles and maximums. The same for the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan. When your limits run out during the year and, “you” are “on your own” for the cost of care or prescriptions for the rest of that year, is where we Seniors get the phrase “Donut Hole”. I hit my own “Donut Hole” last year on my Medicare Prescription Drug Plan in October.
For the tens of millions of citizens who might not want to be a part of “Medicare For All” and are happy with their current insurance, don’t worry, “If you like your Doctor and Insurance, you can keep them, and that’s a promise!” Hmmm – Where did we hear that before?
I am sure that Congress, most government employees and various other “special interests” would find a way to exempt themselves just as they did from the “Affordable Care Act”. Hardly “Medicare For All”. “All” never seems to include our “Ruling Class”.
For Senior Citizens the premium is withheld from our Social Security payment. What would the Government do to collect premiums from those who don’t have a check to withhold the premium from, or those who don’t work for a paycheck? What about those who can’t or won’t pay?
What would happen to the cost of care? Are there enough doctors to make the plan work? Not all doctors are currently willing to accept Medicare patients. There are many unanswered questions.
In the news and something to think about.
Bob Bandy
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Medicare For All sounded good then and there are those screaming for it today. It would not work then and will not work today without bankrupting the country.
Bob Bandy – June 2026
