Liberals love a good crisis. They are skilled at inciting panic and fabricating a need for government intervention. They do this because their very existence is predicated on the helplessness of their constituents. As Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has said, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” Because real crises are rare, liberals need to invent them. As an example, if John Edwards wasn’t a total asshole, he might be president and we would all be talking about the homeless crisis. If you’ve forgotten, Edwards was the little twit running around telling people that every culvert in America had 20 homeless guys living in it. It was a crisis! Well, he wasn’t elected so Katie Couric won’t be interviewing homeless guys for awhile. No, instead we got Obama (BHO) and the crisis du jour is health care.
BHO says we have a crisis because costs are out of control and 46 million people in this country don’t have health insurance. While both these things may be true, I think we should consider how we got to this point before we implement some massive and outrageously expensive government program to remedy these conditions.
OUT OF CONTROL COSTS
You’ve got to hand it to liberals. What they lack in integrity, they make up for in audacity. Cost are out of control so let the government take charge! What? So they can bring to health care the high quality and affordability they brought to the postal service and public schools? Gee, thanks.
BHO has said that the government needs to get involved to provide more competition in the market place. More competition? By my count there is something like 10 thousand insurance companies in this country. Not enough competition, my ass! How about the government doing away with all their stupid mandates that have created “one size fits all” insurance plans. Give insurance companies the freedom to structure plans that are actually tailored to the needs and wants of their customers. Competition will explode and costs will be driven down.
Just recently I heard BHO railing on the insurance industry and their huge profits. He seeks to blame their greed for our high costs. I’m no apologist for insurance companies. I know they are making money but those of us in the private sector are not offended by profits. We actually spend a lot of time trying to increase our own! It would be hypocritical of me to criticize the profits of another. BHO, having never made a profit in his life, has no such concern. But are insurance company profits the biggest problem? BHO has never discussed how medicare and medicaid factor into the cost equation. When a doctor charges $500 for some procedure but the government plan only allows for a $400 payment, who pays the difference? We do, of course. And what affect does that have on our insurance premiums?
BHO has also never mentioned tort reform and how it might affect costs. Doctors pay huge premiums for liability insurance. In some areas, family practitioners are paying over $200,000 a year and as the amount in jury awards rises, doctor’s premiums rise. And this does not even factor in the cost of all the additional tests that doctors now require in an effort to cover their asses in the event of a lawsuit. With lawyers collecting 1/3 of the award, they are doing quite nicely. There is a reason that “ambulance chaser” is part of the American lexicon but I’ve never heard BHO bitching about lawyer profits.
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BHO talking about the free market is like me talking about soccer. He knows nothing about how it works but he instinctively dislikes it. He keeps insisting that “if you like your current plan or doctor, you can keep them.” He has no idea how the free market will adapt to his plan. The fact is, his rules will force private businesses to dump their health insurance plans to remain competitive. Private insurance companies will eventually be wiped out forcing everyone into the government system.
When BHO and his lefty comrades want to target a certain industry, they always rip on their “outrageous profits.” This is right out of Karl Marx’s playbook. Marx theorized that surplus value (profit) was accumulated by bourgeoisie pigs (capitalists) by ripping off the proletariat (employee). It is this theory that was applied to give the world those “workers paradises” in Eastern Europe, China and North Korea among others. Left unchecked, these people are going to destroy our country!
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46 MILLION UNINSURED
BHO has been pretty careful when he throws this number out there. You’ll notice he generally refers to just the “46 million uninsured” or the “46 million uninsured in America.” He never says there are 46 million uninsured AMERICANS. There is a good reason for this. Of the 46 million, 9.7 million-more than 20 percent, are not U.S. citizens! Why should hard working Americans be on the hook for them? I’m sure there are a couple billion uninsured Chinese, too. So, what!
Also included in the 46 million are five million people who qualify for medicare but don’t use it. There are also 17 million Americans living in households with annual incomes in excess of $50,000 that CHOOSE not to have health insurance. Forty percent of the uninsured are between the ages of 18 and 34. Being young and healthy, they have CHOSEN to spend their money on things other than health insurance.
Add it all up and you get about eight million people that want health insurance and can’t get it. Because America is the most benevolent country in the world, these people will be taken care of. Only liberals would think that blowing up the best health care system in the world to help three percent of the population is a good idea. But the liberal elite aren’t that stupid. Freedom loving Americans should consider what their real motivation might be.
BHO says we have a crisis because costs are out of control and 46 million people in this country don’t have health insurance. While both these things may be true, I think we should consider how we got to this point before we implement some massive and outrageously expensive government program to remedy these conditions.
OUT OF CONTROL COSTS
You’ve got to hand it to liberals. What they lack in integrity, they make up for in audacity. Cost are out of control so let the government take charge! What? So they can bring to health care the high quality and affordability they brought to the postal service and public schools? Gee, thanks.
BHO has said that the government needs to get involved to provide more competition in the market place. More competition? By my count there is something like 10 thousand insurance companies in this country. Not enough competition, my ass! How about the government doing away with all their stupid mandates that have created “one size fits all” insurance plans. Give insurance companies the freedom to structure plans that are actually tailored to the needs and wants of their customers. Competition will explode and costs will be driven down.
Just recently I heard BHO railing on the insurance industry and their huge profits. He seeks to blame their greed for our high costs. I’m no apologist for insurance companies. I know they are making money but those of us in the private sector are not offended by profits. We actually spend a lot of time trying to increase our own! It would be hypocritical of me to criticize the profits of another. BHO, having never made a profit in his life, has no such concern. But are insurance company profits the biggest problem? BHO has never discussed how medicare and medicaid factor into the cost equation. When a doctor charges $500 for some procedure but the government plan only allows for a $400 payment, who pays the difference? We do, of course. And what affect does that have on our insurance premiums?
BHO has also never mentioned tort reform and how it might affect costs. Doctors pay huge premiums for liability insurance. In some areas, family practitioners are paying over $200,000 a year and as the amount in jury awards rises, doctor’s premiums rise. And this does not even factor in the cost of all the additional tests that doctors now require in an effort to cover their asses in the event of a lawsuit. With lawyers collecting 1/3 of the award, they are doing quite nicely. There is a reason that “ambulance chaser” is part of the American lexicon but I’ve never heard BHO bitching about lawyer profits.
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BHO talking about the free market is like me talking about soccer. He knows nothing about how it works but he instinctively dislikes it. He keeps insisting that “if you like your current plan or doctor, you can keep them.” He has no idea how the free market will adapt to his plan. The fact is, his rules will force private businesses to dump their health insurance plans to remain competitive. Private insurance companies will eventually be wiped out forcing everyone into the government system.
When BHO and his lefty comrades want to target a certain industry, they always rip on their “outrageous profits.” This is right out of Karl Marx’s playbook. Marx theorized that surplus value (profit) was accumulated by bourgeoisie pigs (capitalists) by ripping off the proletariat (employee). It is this theory that was applied to give the world those “workers paradises” in Eastern Europe, China and North Korea among others. Left unchecked, these people are going to destroy our country!
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46 MILLION UNINSURED
BHO has been pretty careful when he throws this number out there. You’ll notice he generally refers to just the “46 million uninsured” or the “46 million uninsured in America.” He never says there are 46 million uninsured AMERICANS. There is a good reason for this. Of the 46 million, 9.7 million-more than 20 percent, are not U.S. citizens! Why should hard working Americans be on the hook for them? I’m sure there are a couple billion uninsured Chinese, too. So, what!
Also included in the 46 million are five million people who qualify for medicare but don’t use it. There are also 17 million Americans living in households with annual incomes in excess of $50,000 that CHOOSE not to have health insurance. Forty percent of the uninsured are between the ages of 18 and 34. Being young and healthy, they have CHOSEN to spend their money on things other than health insurance.
Add it all up and you get about eight million people that want health insurance and can’t get it. Because America is the most benevolent country in the world, these people will be taken care of. Only liberals would think that blowing up the best health care system in the world to help three percent of the population is a good idea. But the liberal elite aren’t that stupid. Freedom loving Americans should consider what their real motivation might be.
