Feel just like I felt when Clinton tried to reform health care, when Bush tried to solve Social Security's insolvency problem, and now when Obama is trying to reform health care, at least they tried. With Medicare, Social Security, health care, and a host of very real and serious problems continuing to get worse those that want nothing only condemn the next generations to poverty and suffering. I gave Bush credit for trying to do some minor things for Social Security and he got slammed for it. I do not agree with President Obama's plan for health care but I give him more credit for taking on the big one than pretending we don't have a problem.
Here's the problem. Both the Clinton's and Obama want the government to take over health care. Obama wants a single payer government system and is now denying it only because he knows an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose it. But he's on video saying it, and saying it with clarity and specificity that it may take 10-20 years to get it.
Bush, on the other hand, recognized like those of us who understand Social Security, that it's a Ponzi scheme. And worse, the government has been siphoning off every penny of surplus and has spent every cent. That's $2.3 trillion that was supposed to give us some time to fix the mess. Now, even Democrat Senator Max Baucus has admitted that the system could be insolvent in 2 years. Medicare takes in less than it spends today.
Health Care "reform" is not reform until government waste in the Medicare and Medicaid bureaucracies are addressed, coverage of illegal and uninsured in emergency rooms is reformed, and until malpractice tort reform is tackled that is shifting hundreds of billions annually to lawyers and their clients. This "reform" the Dems want today is not reform, but nothing more than a government takeover, with promises that government will make decisions of life and death based on analysis performed by leftists like Zeke Emanuel and John Holdren. Yes, while crass, Sarah Palin is absolutely correct that this plan would create government panels what would effectively decide on who lives and who dies.
"I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care system". From his own mouth before a friendly union audience. Was he lying then, or is he lying now? Single payer is defined as a system where one payer, the government, is all there is. There isn't any private system allowed. No competition. No levels of coverage based on ability to pay. Just a one size fits all system that demands that everyone share the same misery, whether they've worked their butts off their whole life to pay for their own health care or not.
http://tinyurl.com/lsfrjc It was announced today that life-expectancy in America, the most diverse nation on Earth, has reached an average of 78 years for all races and both sexes. Look at the chart below and tell me that our health care system is broken.
The technologies and drugs developed by America have raised the life expectancy of the entire planet in far less diverse and far more homogeneous societies as well, where you'd expect the absence of racial and cultural factors to help. Obama and the Democrats would turn the system that got us here on its head, destroy the incentives that have made America the leader in medical technology and pharmaceuticals, and all in the name of Obama and the left's "Social Justice".
I guess I just "feel" differently about what the left is trying to do. And apparently willing to do it without a single Republican vote, with the majority of Americans in opposition, and while accusing critics of being un-American, Nazis, mobs, and orchestrated. All the while ACORN and SEIU unload busloads of paid supporters at Townhalls.
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