B. Hussein Obama recognizes his Waterloo is on the horizon. To try and turn back the tide, Commander Ego wrote a lengthy screed for Pravda, aka, the NY Times this past weekend. I guess when you are the anti-president, you can pull some strings and get a column in Pravda. In that piece, the Czar’s Czar said:
Our nation is now engaged in a great debate about the future of health care in America. And over the past few weeks, much of the media attention has been focused on the loudest voices. What we haven’t heard are the voices of the millions upon millions of Americans who quietly struggle every day with a system that often works better for the health-insurance companies than it does for them.
The media has not focused on the loudest voices, but sought to make the opponents to Dear Leader appear to be insane, failing to focus on the union thugs Obama called upon to strike back against dissenters. Commander Ego then goes on to make an unqualified and unsubstantiated point, that “millions upon millions” (apparently a government accounting tool) of Americans struggle with the system. This is a major deviation from the 45 million Americans, and illegal aliens, not covered that Dear Leader has been touting. Health Care and the government are married and have been since Medicare/Medicaid/VA. What we do know about the government’s involvement in health care is this:
1) It will cost more than estimated,
2) It will be inefficient (reimbursements are routinely denied because a box isn’t checked clearly), and
3) Take a good look at the VA where there have been filthy hospitals and poor care.
Commander Ego then goes on to say his health care plan will improve health care in four main areas, the first of which is:
First, if you don’t have health insurance, you will have a choice of high-quality, affordable coverage for yourself and your family — coverage that will stay with you whether you move, change your job or lose your job.
Big government has never brought more choice to anything. Remember, this is the group that took the clocks out of the DMV as a solution to the complaints the wait time was too long. Affordability is a relative term, in that aside from your premiums, you will pay higher taxes and fees (another term for a tax). The government plans will do away with private insurance plans in two ways: 1) If your private plan changes anything, you have to switch to the government plan, and 2) The government will run the private plans out of business because they have unlimited cash, to keep premiums down, and that cash comes from the pockets of the American taxpayer. The only choice you will have in health care is one you must make now, to give the government control over your life and 20% of the economy, or to draw the line in the sand and say no, you cannot take my freedom.
Dear Leader’s second prong of his program is based upon cost control. Don’t laugh, at least not until you have tried to read what he wrote:
Second, reform will finally bring skyrocketing health care costs under control, which will mean real savings for families, businesses and our government. We’ll cut hundreds of billions of dollars in waste and inefficiency in federal health programs like Medicare and Medicaid and in unwarranted subsidies to insurance companies that do nothing to improve care and everything to improve their profits.
Unlimited taxpayer money and out of control deficit spending are the way to control costs, stop waste and control inefficiencies, like 800 dollar hammers. Medicare is going broke. Social Security is going broke. Both Medicare and Social Security are run by the government. They don’t have cost controls, efficiencies or a desire to stop the waste. Many doctors will not accept Medicare now, so this will only reduce the number of doctors treating the seniors in America. Giving money and control of health care to the government is like giving whiskey and car keys to Ted Kennedy.
Dear Leader’s third point is:
Third, by making Medicare more efficient, we’ll be able to ensure that more tax dollars go directly to caring for seniors instead of enriching insurance companies. This will not only help provide today’s seniors with the benefits they’ve been promised; it will also ensure the long-term health of Medicare for tomorrow’s seniors. And our reforms will also reduce the amount our seniors pay for their prescription drugs.
The government has never made anything more efficient. I can go out in my yard and dig a hole by myself. Watch the government employees working. Four guys leaning on shovels and one digging the hole. Efficient…even Stevie Wonder can see it isn’t. There is a long history of governmental failures when it comes to price controls and the economy. Ignoring the economy and setting price controls based upon politics is like trying to herd cats. Agriculture farm failures were based on governmental controls. Government interference regarding ethanol has led to a fuel that doesn’t allow for good fuel economy, is more expensive than gas and has created a food shortage in America and world wide, thus driving up the cost of corn and anything made from corn. Thank you government.
If only Commander Ego understood the definition of “insurance”, this entire fiasco and debate might never have occurred. Which leads us to the Knucklehead in Chief’s fourth point:
Lastly, reform will provide every American with some basic consumer protections that will finally hold insurance companies accountable. A 2007 national survey actually shows that insurance companies discriminated against more than 12 million Americans in the previous three years because they had a pre-existing illness or condition. The companies either refused to cover the person, refused to cover a specific illness or condition or charged a higher premium.
We will put an end to these practices. Our reform will prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage because of your medical history. Nor will they be allowed to drop your coverage if you get sick. They will not be able to water down your coverage when you need it most. They will no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or in a lifetime. And we will place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses. No one in America should go broke because they get sick.
Insurance is sold based upon risk. The cost is driven by actuarial tables. If you are young and healthy, insurance is less. If you are older and unhealthy, insurance costs more. Customers VOLUNTARILY participate in insurance. Using the force of law, the will of the government to force universal coverage, that includes pre-existing conditions and the ignoring of risk factors, for everyone, for the same price, is not insurance. Obama’s use of Orwellian terms like “insurance”, “premiums” and “universal coverage” confuse the public and do not allow for a clear understanding of the issue by the average American.
We cannot allow the left to control the language in this debate, as it clouds the discussion. Investment is a conscious decision to risk your own money (NOT THE AMERICAN CITIZENS), in pursuit of financial gain. The government is not in the financial gain business. The government is a black hole that swallows money at an ever increasing velocity.
Forget about co-ops. The government is never a partner in anything. Partners work together for a common goal. As Doctor Zero states, “No one willingly chooses a gigantic, emotionally unstable “partner” who puts chains on your wrists, and a gun in your back. Government cannot “guarantee” anything, because the political winds of the future can blow today’s promises down the memory hole. The benefits a group secures through government pressure will only last until a larger, louder, hungrier group comes along”.
We, as free and sovereign Americans must stand up and refuse to allow the government to take control of 1/5th of the gross domestic product. We must stand up and say no to giving away our freedom, our liberty, our rights, and our future to a beast that eats incessantly and never stops hungering for you cash.
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I’m sorry to hear that you have also had serious medical problems. Good luck with your surgery.
How are you insured? I myself have private coverage, as a dependent on my wife’s insurance (she works for a university).
My mother worked for three decades as a nurse caring for the elderly in the British National Health Service. It is an utter lie that a socialized healthcare system leads to seniors not being cared for. Her patients received generally very competent care, financed through general taxation. If they wanted more luxurious care, they had the option to go private if they wished. I personally volunteered in the nursing homes where she worked, so I saw the conditions there with my own eyes. It would be hard to imagine a more caring environment.
So in what not-the-real-world is it that the relatively much less governmental proposal we’re discussing leads to seniors not receiving the care they need at all and being “left to die”?
No politician, Democratic or otherwise, is accountable to you for the dire fantasies you keep sketching out in your own mind. You could say, with equal factual basis, that the House Democrats’ healthcare plan will include mandatory castrations for all conservatives in order to ensure the New Democratic Party World Order.
It doesn’t, by the way.
Don’t want to add further pressure to what already seems to be your dangerously shaky grasp on reality. Maybe otherwise you would cite this comment in your next screed as an example of what Obama personally and definitely intends.
Why don’t you drop the oogedy-boogedy boogie, Mr. Turner, and actually discuss the actual text of the bill?
Great Comment Bill !!
Hey Allan, er, Zander, your premiums will fall, as will your coverage. Under 15? Your kids are. Hope they don’t get sick. Plan on living past 40? Hope not, because your coverage will be limited an the care you get rationed. I am 46 and am going to have major surgery in two weeks. That surgery wouldn’t be covered under the new plan, because I’ve had last rites 5 times and major surgeries 6. Each surgery is directly related to the oath I took to defend our Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Yet, under this plan, I would be given end of life counseling and left to die.
As for Medicare….that number is a lie. With the growth of the population in Americans over 65 (unless obama gets to kill them) medicare has, over the next 10 years, an unfunded liability of 99 TRILLION dollars.
The government has the midas touch. It ruins everything it touches…like social security.
I think the author of this great article is correct and that Zander must be a socialist. If the government wouldn’t run the private plans out of business, then perhaps a “public option” (or government option) would be tolerable. The way it has always worked here (in the USA, Zander)is that the “public option” puts the “private options” out of business and then prices or other features go bad. We don’t really know what Medicare’s overhead is since they are billions in the hole.
Overhead costs of Medicare: 2%
Overhead costs of private insurance companies: 20% and rising, up from 5% in the early 1990s.
Seems more efficient to me.
Someone’s gotta pay for the private jets and the multi-million dollar salaries of the insurance company executives. That someone is you and me.
The government will run the private plans out of business because they have unlimited cash, to keep premiums down.
OMG, how awful. You mean my premiums would fall? That’s just terrible. I’d better go shout in some eighty-year-old congressman’s face about how he’s taking away my God-given American freedom to pay nine hundred dollars a month to the insurance companies.
Since when did “freedom” start meaning “freedom to get screwed over”?