Healthcare Reform...Be Very Afraid

I've been trying to keep an open mind about Barack Obama's healthcare reform proposals.  Really, I have.  Then, I read the text of his speech to the AMA, and it sounded like he was back on the campaign trail, pandering to everyone and making promises he simply cannot keep.  He had to have every appendage crossed behind his back when he spoke to the doctors.  Last night, a few tidbits from his so-called "town meeting" about his proposal last night on sell-out  ABC were highly revealing about the approach BHO and his cohorts will be taking.

At one point, BHO said, "I'm going to allow you to keep your doctor."  That, my friends, says it all.  Where exactly does BHO get off thinking it is in his power, or even should be in his power, to "allow" us to go to the physician of our choosing, even if that choice is made within the scope of our employer's group health insurance plan?  This one statement betrays so much of BHO's disdain for the Constitution and the Constitutionally-prescribed limits on Federal power.  To BHO and his radical-liberal-socialist friends, it is their right to tell us how to live our lives in every material respect, and the Constitution be damned.

In a nutshell, the BHO plan is little more than a re-packaged Cinton health plan that this country so soundly rejected about 15 years ago.  BHO, however, believes he can surf the wave of Federal dominance spawned by the economic bailouts he has engineered to push socialized medicine upon us while our guard is down.  He is also banking on his cult of personality to gain our trust, where formerly a hard-edged Hillary Clinton turned off everyone from so-called healthcare "reform", apparently even Bill.

My sister lived under socialized medicine for over ten years in Australia and England, and she has no shortage of nightmare stories from that experience.  One I can remember is when her daughter had a severe sinus/ear infection, and was in a great deal of pain.  Due to their having private health insurance, they got to go to the head of the line for a doctor's appointment, only to be told that while, yes, she had an infection, they would not prescribe her antibiotics because only so many doses had been allocated for the year and someone else down the road might need them worse.  My niece suffered on for another week, when the family was serendipitously due to travel to the States.  A North Carolina physician prescribed antibiotics, and within a few days she was fine.  Is this sort of system what we want?  Why do we think people from Canada still come to the U.S. in droves for medical care?

Healthcare reform is truly a dangerous topic with the Democrats in power.  Why?  Not only the above issues, but the simple fact that once a socialized system such as BHO is proposing is put in place, it will be virtually impossible to restore anything such as a free enterprise system.  In fact, it is likely to destroy any free market healthcare system by using government-subsidized plans, to the tune of several trillion dollars, to drive for-profit healthcare systems completely out of business.  BHO's plan is more anti-competitive than anything he has yet done in the financial sector, and the inevitable end result is socialized medicine.

Another reason to fear and distrust the BHO plan is the haste with which they are pushing this thing to a Congressional vote.  Why?  Because they do not want to allow the time for anyone to truly study the plan and project its likely effects.  Any more, Senators and Congressmen and women often do not even read what they vote on, instead relying on leadership to tell them what to do.  This is magnified by smooth operators such as BHO that do all they can to prevent private sector and un-elected political opposition from mounting any effective counter-analyses.  Later, when the problems do arise, we are left with our representatives whining, "I didn't realize that was going to happen."  This is too big, too momentous, and affects too many of us, to be hustled through a no-nothing Congress.

Speak up, my friends, and do it now, before it is too late and we are all beholding to the government for our health care.  The Federal government cannot even now run any program it has efficiently and effectively.  Why should we delude ourselves into thinking health care would be any better?  Don't drink BHO's Kool-Aid on this one.

Comments

[funkyg]

You're right about BHO banking on his popularity to push his proposals through. And, it will probably work. No one seems to be discussing the agent community which will essentially be the biggest looser in this proposal. The independent insurance agent community will be quickly retired just as so many Chrysler and GM dealership were. Insurance agents will be cut out of the opportunity to sell the governement's product (no monthly commission) and will most likely loose a 1/3 of the current book of business as those people migrate to these new products (1/3 of the eligible population is the current projection for the government's plan).