Liar, Liar… Speech on fire!
Having not watched the speech (I make a practice of putting myself in situations wherein I may be the victim of malicious prevarication) I think it is still safe to say that the whole thing was a bunch of BS. I heard the sound bites, I saw snippets of transcript… it was the same old, tired lines about 40 some-odd million people without insurance and how we just HAD to make sure that everyone has insurance. What crap. How many of those people choose not to carry insurance because it would impinge on their cable package and smokes? Yeah. I gotta tell you, I’m just hopping at the opportunity to pay for their insurance. Here’s an idea: instead of forcing the country into a plan that (no matter WHAT the mainstream media says) DOESN’T want any part of this plan, why don’t you remove all the government fetters and let the market drive prices down in competition? How can they do that, you ask? Eliminate mandatory coverages. Why the heck should a young, single male without a girlfriend, much less a family, have to buy an insurance plan that pays for pre-natal care? Where does that make sense?
Why should I have to pay for cancer coverage if I don’t want to? If I am free to buy the policy that I want at a competitive price, I’m sure as heckfire gonna do that over buying the government-mandated “one-size-fits-all” plan. Eliminate the barriers to portability. If every company in the nation can compete for any person in the nation in terms of insurance, there will CERTAINLY be a drop in price, based solely upon the (empirically demonstrated) law of supply and demand.
Doesn’t it strike you as odd that both of these restrictions are inflicted upon the market by the same people that now want to “fix” what’s wrong with the market? If I came into your house, busted your tv so you only got 6 channels and then offered to charge you a pile of money to fix it, you’d probably throw my backside out the front door, toolbox in hand… and you would be right to do so. So why does the democrat party think that we will let them do the same thing to our healthcare insurance? Ridiculous.
You MUST be kidding…
Well, it would seem that the Obama administration is pushing hard towards instuting a government-run healthcare system. I’m sure that many of you understand exactly how abyssmal an idea that really is, but let me make it even worse. According to this article from CNS News.com they aren’t sure which countries they really mean when they say that it “works pretty well”. Um, what?
Robert Gibbs would starve as a salesman. If you’re going to sell me a product and tout references for it’s great features and functionality, you had better have a specific list of people that I can call to find out if that’s true. If somebody told you that their vacuum cleaner was voted “the best on the market”, my first question is: “By whom?”
Well, in this case, the idiot sales person says: “Um, I don’t know.” Hmmm… so whether it be the vaccuum or Government-run heathcare, they’ll both suck, we just don’t know how much.
I can tell you, I lived in Britain and had the unfortunate experience of visiting a hospital over there. The place looked like it hadn’t been updated since the 70′s. Ask yourself why people in Canada come to the US when they need immediate medical care for what could be a terminal illness. How well is a government bureaucracy going to run a system that is responsible for our very survival? I don’t want my heart surgery waiting in somebody’s inbox over the weekend or getting “stuck in the system” because the “new guy” in the Health Services Administration Office mis-coded it. If you’ve ever been to a DMV, you know how government healthcare will work and with whom you will be dealing in that office. I have never met anyone in any federal government office or institution that I would consider “above average” in the intelligence arena. All I’m sayin’ is you had better schedule your heart attack for mid morning on a Monday or Tuesday… any earlier and your “approval for services” will be in “weekend voicemail hell”, any later and you’ll be in the end of the week catch-up period. Oh, by the way, government office-types don’t do overtime. They leave at 5 every day. I know, I ‘ve unfortunately been one and watched it happen.
Wake up and start screaming about this now. When it’s already happened, it’s waaaay too late.
Presto, You’re Dead.
Much like a corpse in the summer sun, the Barack Obama “Stimulus Bill” is starting to smell more and more rotten as it sits in the light of the day. All last week and the beginning of this one, it was impressed upon us by PresBO that this bill must be passed NOW! If we don’t, the world will collapse. Horsecrap as usual from a democrat mouth. Now we are beginning to find out why…
Turns out that the longer this bill is exposed to the American public, the more socialist garbage we find stuffed inside. Now it is being reported that there is to be a federal system to oversee your doctor and to “guide” him or her how to best treat you. Uh, last I checked, my representative IS a doctor and voted no on this bill.
A quote taken from Bloomberg news article dated Feb 9th by Betsy McCaughey:
…National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”…
I am imagining a system whereby some mid-level, minimally qualified govermnment union worker sits at a desk in an overpriced building under the buzz of the sterile, mind-numbing energy saving light bulbs with a big manual of spreadsheets. It will be his or her job to look at what you have had done recently, how old you are and then look across the spreadsheet to the corresponding “no” column. THAT will be your doctor’s guidance. Knee replacement? Hell no, you’re 65. That would be a waste of money. What? You want treatment for your emphesema? But you’re 80. You’ll be dead in 5 years anyway. We’re gonna save the money for the indigent mothers of 6 that want to have 8 more kids. They’re the ones that REALLY need it anyway, right?
I don’t think that there is anyone with one ounce of sense in their head that actually believes that this will improve the healthcare system of this nation. The driving force is power people. If you own someone’s healthcare, you own the person. Now I’m not going to go as far as to say that people could or would be deprived medical attention based on their politcal views (although it’s a thought provoking scenario for a short story) but imagine the campaign slogans for years to come: Democrats- Protecting your free health care since 2009! … or perhaps… Vote Republican and your personal health care costs will skyrocket!
Are you getting the picture now? They’ve been doing this for years with Medicare and Medicaid! Now look at what has happened to the geriatric voting block… sorry, old folks. We got what we want, now we’re throwing you to the wolves. You don’t need all the healthcare you’re getting because you’re old and you’ll be dead soon anyway. Just deal with it.
You have been betrayed. Next up, the rest of us. Starting with the stupid. Oh, wait. That’s already happened. They thought that they were going to get their mortgages paid and their cars filled with gas because they voted Obama. Well, ‘Change’ is here and ‘Change’ couldn’t care less about you idiots. Go watch American Idol. We’ll contact you when we need your votes again. You’ll have forgotten about this by then anyway…
Ask yourself why this was stuck in the middle of a ‘stimulus bill’ that is 700+ pages long. Why not shout this from the rooftops? Isn’t this a democrat Utopian idea? This is a platform issue for them! Really, if this is so popular, it should be a stand-alone signature item for PresBO.
If this bill passes, health care is going to suffer horrendously and they know it. You had better call your congressmen and senators to ask why they aren’t crucifying this bill openly on every tv channel and the floor of the house and senate. This is a covert government power grab and it is a LIE. Stand up and fight it or suffer the tyranny.
You have your orders.