Part IV: More Thoughts On The Healthcare Bill

Every time the Congress makes a law with the word shall we lose a little more freedom. I wonder how many times that word will appear in the health care bill.

The health care debate has me thinking about the Constitution. Although it is one of the greatest documents ever written, it has a major flaw. It relies on us to be vigilant and maintain our own freedom. How could the Founding Fathers have imagined we would be so willing to rely on the government for our needs, sacrificing our freedom and liberty in the process? It’s strange to think of those who laid down their lives for freedom and now we are doing just the opposite.

The government cannot afford state-of-the-art health care for every person in this country. Our children and their children and their children’s children already are indebted. If you want the government to take care of you, pay for it now, not later. I know Obama claims this will be deficit-neutral, but that’s like saying, "I didn’t use my food stamps to buy beer; I used my own money for that."

When you wake up one day completely dependent on the government for all your needs, handing over to the government everything you produce and not nearly as prosperous as you are now, remember this tidbit of mine.

Why the constitution?

We have a constitutional republic whose powers are supposed to be limited by that constitution. The framers of which intentionally made it difficult to change so that a 53% majority could not come in and re-write the rules government is supposed to operate under.

Unfortunately government (and not just this president) has chosen to ignore those rules. Some people should spend some time reading the constitution, paying special attention to the 10th amendment.

Barack Obama is a Goddamned liar

Obama lied when he said that the Democrat's plan would allow anyone who is currently satisfied with their plan to keep it. And if they are happy with their doctor, they can keep their physician as well.

But anyone who has taken the time to read this 1018 page bill, (thanks for nothing, John Conyers), finds that if your employer decides that Obamacare is a more cost-effective way to go, you are stuck with the government plan. You cannot opt to switch to another private carrier on your own once Obamacare takes effect. If you're self-employed and are dissatisfied with your current provider once the government plan is passed, you can only switch to Obamacare. If you are uninsured at the time Obamacare is passed, that is your only option. And if you choose not to enroll, you will be subject to a punitive tax.

God damned lying pieces of shit. The more i read on this, the more outraged i become.

Part III: More Thoughts On The Healthcare Bill

We in America actually have quite a bit of socialized medicine.

Not only are there the free clinics (some private non-profit, some government), but we also have the Veterans Administration health care system for veterans and their dependents.

Then we have Medicare, which is government health care “insurance” for the elderly and disabled.

Then there is a joint federal/state government program called Medicaid, which is health care “insurance” for low income households and individuals.

And finally there is SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) to cover uninsured children in families with incomes that are modest but too high to qualify for Medicaid.

Many of the so-called uninsured in this country are actually people who qualify for Medicare, Medicaid or SCHIP and just have not signed up for it.

In fact, one of the biggest myths being perpetrated by the mainstream media and power hungry politicians on both sides of the isle is this figure of 45-50 million Americans having no health insurance.

According to the Census Bureau report “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2005,” it puts the initial number of uninsured people living in the country at 46.577 million.

A closer look at that report reveals the Census data include 9.487 million people who are “not a citizen.” Subtracting the 10 million non-Americans, the number of uninsured Americans falls to roughly 37 million.

But according to the same Census report, there are 8.3 million uninsured people who make between $50,000 and $74,999 per year and 8.74 million who make more than $75,000 a year. That’s roughly 17 million people who ought to be able to “afford” health insurance because they make substantially more than the median household income of $46,326.

Subtracting non-citizens and those who can afford their own insurance but choose not to purchase it, about 20 million people are left – less than 7 percent of the population. And many of those would qualify for Medicaid and Medicare if they would but apply.

So, to fix a seeming health care coverage gap for much less than 7 percent of the population, the Federal government is proposing becoming a massive new Federal government competitor to all private-sector insurers (in addition to the 2 we already have), but this time, they are going to pass a tsunami of new laws and regulations on private-sector insurers that will only “ensure” their demise – except for maybe all but the most wealthy Americans and, of course, Congress – who has already said they will not opt into the same system all American’s will be REQUIRED (read that FORCED) to be on.

More Thoughts On The Healthcare Bill

The legislation that we are debating would set up the Federal government as a direct competitor to private-sector insurance companies. That's what the bill does. It’s unconstitutional. But hey, that’s not a problem for the Federal government these days. That document might as well be toilet paper the way it is treated.

On top of setting up the government as a direct competitor, the legislation also creates an enormous number of new and punitive laws and regulations on private-sector insurance companies that will drive their costs even higher than they are now just in compliance costs. These increased costs are going to make it basically impossible for private-sector insurance companies to compete with the Federal Government as a provider of health care insurance because the Federal government doesn’t have to earn a single penny in profit. The Federal government takes. It doesn't earn shit.

Are ya with me so far?

Now then, the vast majority of American’s already have some form of private-sector health care insurance, many of them have that insurance provided for by their employers. This is a significant cost for those businesses right now – and with the new laws and regulations this legislation will impose, these costs will rise dramatically. This will force those employers to dump their private-sector plans and put their employees on the government-run health care plan.

As the private-sector insurers client base contracts and costs escalate, they will have no choice but to go out of business.

THIS will leave EVERY American DEPENDING on the Federal government to provide health care insurance. This means that all citizens (since this bill also DEMANDS that ALL citizens have health care insurance or be fined) will now be dealing with the Federal government when it comes to receiving ANY health care.

The Federal government makes NOTHING easy. There will be rafts of paper work, multiple levels of bureaucracy to wade through for even the most simple of decisions and the Federal government will know EVERYTHING there is to know about your personal life through your medical records.

This is an UNPRECEDENTED Federal government intrusion on our private lives. It will only be a matter of time before personal lifestyle choices will effected. If you smoke, then you don’t get that cardiac bypass; if you eat fast food, then you can’t have that hip or knee replacement; if you drink alcohol, don’t exercise, drink too much soda, and the list goes on, then your access to health care will be impacted. The Federal government will begin mandating acceptable behaviors if one wishes free access to health care.

This bill isn’t being pushed just to cover only those people who currently have no insurance. In fact, a cynical person would tell you health care insurance and health care itself has nothing to do with this push for a government takeover of health care – it's all about seizing ever more power unto the Federal government.

You see, many of those that do not currently have health care insurance are either young and healthy and would rather spend their money on something other than insurance, or are older adults who are wealthy enough to self-insure – that is, pay for their own health care needs on their own. So, the Federal government is constantly lying by overstating the number of people who are uninsured and making it sound like these people just can’t afford it without the Federal government becoming involved.

The truly indigent always have recourse to any emergency room in any hospital in America – the ER cannot turn ANYONE away simply because they don’t have the means to pay for their care. Then there is Medicare and Medicaid.

Right now, the Federal government has access to ALL of your personal financial information through the income tax system – if this bill passes, the Federal government will also have access to ALL of your personal health care records, including any mental health care records.

With that, there is not a single aspect of your life that the Federal government will not be aware of.

There are precious few areas of our lives that are not touched by the Federal government – from our personal choices in a vast array of products, where we live, how we live, what we do, what we can’t do; there are so, many, MANY Federal laws are regulations that NO person could possibly know all of them – they number in the hundreds of thousands. We are no longer truly free citizens capable of making our own decisions.

This, folks, is what you keep voting into office. You keep allowing these politicians to subvert and control you!

A Few Thoughts On The Healthcare Bill

You see, in America we still cling to that novel notion that the Federal government should have to follow the laws of the land as they expect us to so. There are still enough Americans (despite the best efforts of our government schools) who believe that our Constitution should mean something and that she not be openly and blatantly flaunted by our elected representatives.

Such concepts might seem foreign to liberals but I assure you they are not foreign to a great, great many Americans.

This bill sets up the Federal Government (which can lay tax, print its own money and change the rules almost at will) as a direct competitor to private-sector health care insurers - which HAVE TO make a profit to exist, HAVE TO produce a product or service that PEOPLE WANT and will consider valuable enough to part with their hard-earned dollars for it.... and all of this on top of having to comply with a mind-numbing array of Federal government regulations and laws which already significantly impair the profitability of these companies in an already competitive market!

The Federal government as a competitor does not have to make a single dime in profit, it does not have to provide prompt and courteous service, it does not have to provide state-of-the-art procedures or technologies.

And if that weren't enough, the Federal government as a competitor has the power to change the rules in it's favor (which this bill does in a massive way which is the death of free-market competitors), to seize more of the taxpayers dollars to pay for inevitable and costly inefficiencies, waste and fraud inherent in any massive government program (of which have many even now - all of which are broke), and if the taxpayers can't provide enough they can always borrow from China or print some more money (like we're doing now - without a massive new government expenditure on health care that fixes nothing).

This is economics 101 stuff here. If this bill passes it will be the end of private-sector health care insurers - PERIOD!

THAT is the TRUTH - there is no question about it when one actually endeavors to read the legislation for themselves.

But liberals will argue that most, if not all, of the western world already has universal medical coverage. That the USA has a golden opportunity to model theirs after the best in the world and try to improve it even more.

But overall, this whole healthcare bill is HUGELY unconstitutional. Period. Liberals don't understand that because they pervert and rape it any and every chance they get.

Liberals might want to actually READ our Constitution. I have read our Constitution many, many, many times. There's not a single mention of the Federal government having the power to set itself up as a director competitor to private-sector businesses of ANY kind - much less giving the Federal government the power to takeover a private-sector corporation and fire its CEO.

But hey... what do I know? I've only lived for 40 some odd years - and read the constitution itself countless times.

Ultimately, it's all about control. Nothing more. Government control!