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.
“Free” Health Care
This morning on ABC there was a story about a group of doctors in Los Angeles that had decided to offer free medical care to the first 1500 people through the door. Is that a good idea? Sure, why not. It was their choice to do so and their money to burn; it’s a free country. The kicker is that they were SWAMPED with people (far more than the 1500 showed up) and people were waiting all night for a place in line to get a coveted ticket. Now, I’m sure that many if not most of those people had legitimate reasons to be in line and perhaps some relatively serious medical issues, but I think we can still say that this is a pretty good illustration of what happens when medical care is advertised as “free”. People will show up to take advantage of what they perceive as a free ride whether they really need it or not. I would be willing to bet that there were plenty of people in that line that were actually in financial need (and for that reason I applaud the doctors and medical professionals involved), but I am also of the mind that there were probably some freeloaders in the line. This is really a microcosm of what will eventually happen if the Congress passes this ABYSMAL health care plan that is on the board right now. Once the private insurers are out of the way (and that WILL happen under this legislation regardless what the president says), the public option will rule and everyone will be on the same coverage… meaning anyone can go to the doctor for any minor illness or injury. No matter the reason, they will show up, because it’s free… they don’t have to worry about the consequences at all. Got a runny nose, go see a doctor. Got a small cut, go see a doctor… you see what I mean. There are so many other ways to solve this issue. Even giving money to hospitals to cover people that don’t have health care under certain circumstances would be more palatable that this…
Anyway, that’s my quick observation on it…
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.