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!