They were booing Obamacare in Austin Texas over the weekend and they exploded in Philadelphia Pa., when Sen. Arlen Specter, the newly found Democrat, suggested ‘rushing’ it through while the latest Rasmussen poll shows that 48% of US voters now rate the US health care system as good or excellent as it now exists.
That’s right, ‘If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.’
Too much a-fixing is goin on.
Fixing is synonymous with spending and this is what President Obama knows – and, he’s going to right all the wrongs in one year with a policy of ‘rush’ to judgment, lack of transparency and spending.
Look out Arlen, you weren’t doing too well as a Republican, you might be doing far worse as a Democrat if you continue voicing the administration’s talking points.
More than $700 Billion in a stimulus is out there somewhere that we don’t see in jobs, but a portion of that we did recently see in just six days with the ‘Clunkers Exchange’ program that ran out of money. Now Congress wants to pour $2 more billion into a foolhardy program that takes taxpayer money, loaned to us from China, scraps vehicles to be sold to China, so we can buy it back in another form.
The government knows as much about the auto industry as it does about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Post Office and Amtrak. And now it wants to run Health Care the way it wants to run everything else – poorly. Cutting cost in health care means cutting lives – a mandated discussion of end of life after the age of 65. Better known as cleansing of the aged.
The new Rasmussen polling shows that 80% of those with health insurance rate their own coverage as good or excellent.
Meanwhile, House Leader Nancy Pelosi wants to trash the insurance industry.
The poll says that just 28% of the people say they are willing to pay higher taxes so that all Americans can have health insurance. Sixty percent (60%) are opposed. Do you hear that Mr. President? That’s what the people are saying. Or, are you still listening to Saul Alinsky (author of Rules For Radicals) and a proponent of wealth redistribution?
Instead of trying to fix what ain’t broke, why not concentrate on racism Mr. President, you seem to calibrate your words on this issue very well and then recoup with a beer summit?
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIt may not be broke yet but it is rapidly breaking the financial well being of the country. You are among a very unenlightened minority who for some reason can’t comprehend how serious the health care problem is. Unfortunately, regardless of how many people rate their insurance coverage as good or excellent it can’t continue without significant adjustments. The costs of our present system threatens our future financial viability no less than the economic disaster we are currently crawling our way through. We may avoid one economic disaster only to be promptly faced with another.
I won’t list all the numbers but we spend more than twice as much as any other country for health care with only at best, an average result. With forty million uninsured we face not only an economic imperative for reform but also a moral one.
The encouraging thing is that we will end up with a health care bill that will be the result of bipartisan efforts. The groundwork is being formulated and the final legislation will be far removed from the proposals that have been floated by the administration.
The models that are being studied for inclusion are patterned after the Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic systems.
The matter of insurance companies is symptomatic of some of the problems. Insurance companies primary responsibility is to maximize profits for stockholders. This isn’t compatible with delivering optimal health care and results in patients being dropped or denied enrollment and doctors’ not being free to practice as they deem best. Also, when thousands of insurance company personnel have the sole responsibility to deny claims the insurance problem becomes clearer.
Finally, this Alinsky business and other irresponsible nonsense like Obamas’ birth certificate may be acceptable as campaign dirt but the election is over. The far right is only hurting their cause by repeatedly brandishing stuff that nobody cares about. The electorate has changed. They’re too smart and enlightened for silliness. They care about jobs, health care and being safe. It turns them off. Democrats love it because it solidifies their strength. At its worst it indicates a white fear of newly empowered ethnic groups and blacks.
No one is questioning health care reform, lets repair what is broken, but let’s not fix what is not. People from other countries are not coming to the US because they can get quality health care elsewhere for less, or for that matter, get it at all. What makes you think we will end up with a bill that will be bipartisan? Obama has no concept of what the word means, change and bipartisanship was his campaign rhetoric. Let us be clear about the facts we comment on, I never questioned Obama’s place of birth. However, I would recommend that you read Saul Alinsky’s book, ‘Rules for Radicals’ for Obama is following it as his playbook right down to attacking a conservative protest of the people over health care, calling them a ‘mob’ when the liberal protest is called ‘community organization,’ of which Obama was one. Attack is an Alinsky strategy used most effectively by the Obama Administration. I don’t know about your newly empowered ethnic groups,but it seems to me it was Obama’s poor judgment that played the race card in the Gates/Crowley debacle. The issues I am raising have nothing to do with campaign rhetoric, they are taking place before our very own eyes by this president’s actions. Obama is trying to do too much too soon and in so doing is spending the country into bankruptcy. And, he’s not listening to the people. If he doesn’t change his course — he’s a one-term president.
Regarding Healthcare, people confuse five separate issues:
1)We do not have a “right” to be given Food, shelter and clothing—so why should we have a “right” to healthcare. All of the above should be “paid” for by the recipient.
2) Gaps in coverage (When people who are willing to pay for healthcare can’t get it—because of losing a job or because of pre-existing conditions)
3) Healthcare versus Health insurance, and deductibles:
4) Cost of medical care.
5) Government involvement in healthcare
Issue #1 is self-explanatory. Food is not a “right” so why should healthcare be?
Issue #2, Gaps in coverage has to be fixed. But we have to understand that there are many people who would rather spend money on cell phones and cigarettes but will not spring for healthcare premiums. These people obviously want YOU to pay for THEIR healthcare.
Then there are illegal aliens. They should NOT be covered by any healthcare plan. let them go to the Emergency Room–and “we” pay for them that way–which is a lot cheaper than getting the government involved.
However—when a person loses his job–he can pay through COBRA for health care. for pre-existing conditions, pass a law to require these people to be covered by an insurance “pool” that evens out the risk to any single insurance company. Peope with pre-existing conditions are rally the ONLY ones who have true medical problems–the rest of us really DON’T !!!
Issue #3: Our real Health care problem is not the lack of healthcare but rather os health “insurance”. Just as we pay for our own food—we must pay for our own healthcare—but should be protected by insurance against catastrophic illness. We spend thousands of dollars per year on booze, cigarettes and food—so we should also budget healthcare expenses–with a reasonably high deductible. Yes—WE should pay the deductible and we should pay the premiums. Health “insurance’ is what we need—not free healthcare.
Issue #4: The cost of healthcare is high for those with pre-existing conditions. We should not try to reduce payment to providers in order to make healthcare affordable to healthcare users. For people with very high cost pre-existing conditions constitute a real tragedy and we will have to find some way of helping them without wreaking the healthcare system for the whole country.
Issue #5: Government involvement in Healthcare? the government messes up just about everything it goes near–the LAST place we want government involment is in something as critical as healthcare.
These are my thoughts.
Phil
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