The Damage We Can Expect from Obama’s Rush to Universal Healthcare
I’ll keep this short and simple. Our soldiers are dying in Afghanistan every day. Yet, Obama appears in no hurry to decide how best to support and protect them. To the contrary, Obama stalls and procrastinates claiming he’d rather do it right, than fast. Meanwhile our sons and daughters die…and the morale of troops disintegrates.
Yet, when it comes to reforming healthcare OBAMA DEMANDS WE RUSH. Instead of doing it right, he demands we do it fast. Even if it means an incompetent, bumbling, hapless, and corrupt federal government might take over 17% of the U.S. economy. Even though government-run Medicare and Medicaid already threaten to bankrupt America with waste, incompetence, theft and corruption. Even though the federal government has never before run anything successfully, efficiently and profitably. What kind of madman would rush this decision on adding trillions in new spending on a risky unproven scheme in the midst of the worst depression since 1929 (and in my opinion it is getting worse)? If there was ever a decision needed to be made right, rather than fast, this is it.
So why the rush? Obama knows anyone with common sense that has time to think about this plan (let alone read the actual bill), would never support it. Certainly not now in the midst of economic Armageddon. That is why Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are demanding Congressmen and Senators vote on it before they read it…and before we (the voters) hear about the details – the massive new taxes, the onerous new mandates, the rationing, the criminal penalties, he dramatic expansion of Big Brother in our lives.
The vote must happen before the average distracted American voter realizes they will be forced to buy health insurance or be fined $15,000 or sent to prison; before Americans realize 50 million patients will be added to an already overloaded, overburdened healthcare system – while adding no new doctors, or worse yet, causing tens of thousands of doctors to retire rather than work for lower wages, higher taxes, and heavier workloads; before anyone realizes that you don’t save money by spending an extra trillion dollars; before anyone realizes that government “experts” have always far underestimated the cost of every new proposed government program – in order to sell it- often by 10 times or more.
Do you need to know anymore about the reason Obama is rushing this pig of a bill through Congress? But there is more. Obama is afraid that Americans will realize the Senators and Congressmen, who are being threatened and bribed to vote for universal healthcare, know it is so bad that they themselves REFUSE to live by it. They have their own healthcare plan – no rationing or higher taxes (or both) for them.
Obama must rush the vote before anyone realizes he will not dare tax the top-of-the-line private health plans that could actually pay for this big government boondoggle – because those plans belong to the union members that supported Obama for President. Obama is owned lock, stock and barrel by the government employee unions, teachers unions, and auto unions.
And finally, Obama wants to rush through universal healthcare before anyone realizes that the taxes and surcharges to pay for it will cost millions of jobs and huge tax increases on EVERYONE!
The definition of a Ponzi scheme is to steal from one group of suckers to pay another. Eventually all Ponzi schemes fail – when you run out of suckers. In this case, the suckers are American taxpayers. Obama says only the rich will pay – don’t believe it. A program this big and corrupt will hit everyone, regardless of income in their pocketbook. The rich will certainly be hit. Some will retire; some will move offshore; some will go underground; some will cut back on hours because the reward is no longer worth the risk; and many will go out of business under the new burdens. Obama will learn that you CAN kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
The damage done to the rich will reverberate in deadly fashion to the middle class. First, jobs will be lost by the millions. Yes, millions MORE jobs than we’ve already lost. As my father used to say, “I’d love to hate the rich, but I’ve never gotten a job from a poor person.” And, when the tax revenues necessary to fund universal government-run healthcare fail to appear (because the rich have gone out of business, or refuse to work), Obama will turn to the middle class to pay the bill. It may take 5 years of massive, unimaginable budget deficits, but soon enough the middle class will be asked to pay dearly.
Disaster looms. Don’t say you weren’t warned. The only bright lining is that the end of Obama and Pelosi’s reign looms too. From now on, let’s call a vote for universal healthcare “Nancy Pelosi’s Congressional Death Panels.” Political suicide awaits the Democrats foolish and arrogant enough to pass this bill.
So, now you can clearly see why Obama can wait with a decision regarding Afghanistan (while our sons and daughters are fighting and dying), but he has no choice but to rush a vote on universal health care. Many of you may think it’s because Obama and his minions are inept. Well, they may be, but they are also disastrously devious and know the way to get “the worst bill in the history of America” passed is by rush, rush, rush, and what better time than when Americans are distracted by the Christmas holidays.
Regards,
Wayne Allyn Root
November 23, 2009
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excellent article
I had to post it on my FB page.
Very nice, Mr. Root. Unfortunately, I don’t see any solutions other than to prepare to hole up quietly while the system crashes and to hope we do better the next time around. It is conceivable that a sweep by Libertarians at all levels for the next two elections–if there are two more sets of elections–could restore sanity, but such is not likely and a safer bet is on the insanity of governments and reliance upon ourselves and the preparations we make.
It is high time for a well organized third party dealing with the issues in a respectable way. Otherwise we could see an uprising or revolution of great proportions.
The military is Playing Russian Roulette instead of taking care of the Problem of Bombs.
Why does the Miitary not use Bomb, Sodium Nitrate, SNIFFING “DOGs” on every Road before it’s vehicles if it thinks so much of the Soldiers?. Slow Down and SNIFF.
Start using more bomb ROLLERS in front of convoys as they Travel, REMOTE control with SNIFFER “DOGS”
Makes you wonder if all ” OUR POWERS that be” are wanting our troops to take casualties?? WHY??
Something is wrong with the NOT solving the RoadSide Bomb Problem?????
What are the Real Motives? For not Solving this Problem.??????? HMmmmm
40,000 more troops equal $40 Billion. More money we need to borrow from China. This puts an even bigger hole in the budget . It used to be the military industrial complex ate up 50% of the budget now you want to push for 60+%. I hate to tell you where we need to spend our money but the country is collapsing people are dying for lack of health care. So lets throw more money into empire building. Good solution. If the people don’t have bread let them eat cake.
gosh 15,000 fine i did not realize it was that bad this guy is ridiculous this is the exact same type of thing that caused the english pilgrams to migrate here.
What? Our elected representatives about to do something stupid? And now we can’t say we weren’t warned?
Mr. Root even remembered to remind us that “our” sons and daughters are fighting and dying. All this from a bona fide Libertarian! Looks pretty trustworthy, too! This must be my lucky day!!
What are the free/fair market solutions to our health care problems? Conservatives have failed to present a way out of this mess with solutions that ignite the fervor of the electorate. Until private sector alternatives to government control of our lives appear, then socialist solutions will win out until they ultimately collapse our whole society.
I hope that improvements in medical technology and delivery will dig us out from under heavy health costs. Actually, even though it seems health costs have risen exponentially over the last century, I have a hunch that costs as measured against benefits have actually been dropping and will continue to drop as health outcomes improve. Still, we desperately need to break-up the government-medical industry monopoly and open up health care delivery to the free market. Some examples of this are beginning to occur, but we need to go much farther in taking basic health care away from expensive professionals, turning it into advanced forms of self-care and integrating that approach with necessary physician and hospital care. Costs would go down dramatically. As we know, people can go a long way in learning to take care of themselves.
B.O. will be the Robert Mugabe of the USA
Bill, Honey, I had to laugh. January a year ago I went in for my regular check up and joked to my marvelous young TAMU doctor (still paying off six-figure loans) that the time would come when he and I had to meet in an alley at midnight, he with his stethoscope in hand, me with a chicken in mine. He replied grimly, “I’ll take the chicken!” LBT
Commenters 6-11, if it weren’t 2:59 a.m. I would respond to each of you individually as you deserve. (To know you aren’t shouting down a well, that is, not that I’m the Grand High Poo-Bah, or anything.) Tomorrow for sure. Why do I take it upon myself to do that? Because very, very few who write articles respond to the comments they get, something I think so dumb it makes me wonder if they eat the icing on their birthday cakes. I eat sweets very rarely, but on birthdays I’ll have two slices, thank you, both corner pieces if I can get them. Hey, the responses I get are far more enjoyable than writing articles, and I’d rather write than shop in Neiman-Marcus with unlimited use of Bill Gates’ Platinum card. Feel free to try me on that one, Mr. Gates, in the extraordinarily unlikely event you read W&G, given your leftist ways. Signature chuckle…I both write and shop extremely fast and efficiently! I am thankful every wonderful day of my life, but today I’m taking time to thank you Shooters and W&G for the incredible joy I get from being allowed to write for and to you. You add so much breadth and depth to my life that I feel like a kid who has Christmas at least several times a week. My very best to all of you, and somebody ask Samoset what else we can bury when planting corn besides fish! Linda Brady Traynham
The US spends 31% of its health budget on administration, Canada spends 16.7%. The US spends 16.4% of its GDP on health, projected by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, to reach 34% in 3040, while Australia spends 8.4%. The standard of health in the US is not higher than either Canada or Australia. Canada and Australia have universal health care with optional private cover. In addition to my compulsory Medicare levy of 2% of my taxable income, I pay $2000 a year for top private health cover for a family of four. This includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, etc. A writer in this column reported recently that a day in hospital with a fractured arm cost him $100,000 with various bills still to come. I spent 8 days in a private hospital recently for a cervical fusion. Total cost to me, including airfares, was two taxi fares.
If the US can’t sort out universal health care for its population, while reeducing the total cost to the community, then you aren’t trying. Either that or you’ve got a bad attack of Uncle Joe Stalin’s disease, ideology.
You want a solution to the costs of health care? Get rid of insurance! THAT is what drove all the prices up, from a combination of “free” care, the incredible number of forms that have to be filled out by expensive clerical help which serves no medical purpose, and government interference. Let’s make “single payer” mean personal pay-as-you-go. Compare what an office visit cost in 1955 to modern dollar equivalents, and one should cost $35.00. It doesn’t; OV usually run between $110 and $150, as a direct result of increased clerical costs and the taxpayers funding the privileged classes (If “entitled” doesn’t mean privileged, what does it convey?) and law breakers. Here’s a challenge for you: when you do your income taxes add up everything your whole family spent on medical services…and compare the total to what your insurance cost. Unless one of you suffered severe injuries or contracted a terminal illness, the chances are overwhelming that what you paid far exceeded what you got. Health care is not a RIGHT. It is an obligation only because the Statists insist it is. It is humorous that those who mock Christians insist that we have to be our brothers’ keepers. Where do they think that idea came from? “Free” health care for everyone who goes to the Emergency Room with the sniffles is why a visit costs YOU $2,000. The government has been eating our cake for years and now it is working on the hamburger buns–in addition to insulting us and playing the guilt and race cards. A catastrophic care police is a good idea for those who fear being put on dialysis or undergoing chemotherapy or multiple by-pass surgery, some day,. Insurance is not meant to cover routine expenses; it is…well…”insurance” against the possible but not likely. My home insurance does not replace a hot water heater or recarpet the house if I want a change of color. It protects the house from fire, tornados, and hurricanes. We cannot provide all things for all people who do not pay taxes and there is no reason why we should be forced to do so. Charity is a voluntary act; “free” health care, housing, food, utilities and so forth paid for by extorting vast sums from the rest of us is neither charity nor common sense nor ethical nor rational–and the flat truth is that we can’t afford it, any more than we have ever been able to afford foreign aid, quixotic rescue attempts (some currently known as “overseas contingency operations”), or the utter fallacy of legislating that every citizen “make” a living wage. Worse than not being able to afford the Nanny State, we have passed the point where we could pay for it. Charity begins at home and spreads to churches and clubs formed for that purpose. It is not the responsibility of governments or even a proper function of government.
Don’t bother to call me “mean-spirited” and cold. Show me where I am wrong. To how many decimal places? By what accounting system? By whose ethical system?
Dear Mr. McLaren:
You make one excellent point: the USA spends far too much on administration, a common result of government intervention.
Quite frankly, 2% of your gross income and $2,000 a year for your family of four does not strike me as a reasonable sum for sensible people in normal health to pay; it is certainly no bargain. I would suppose that cervical fusion would be covered under a catastrophic care rider since it is not at all a common need. I read all of the articles and comments on W&G every day and I cannot recall anyone reporting costs of $100,000 for a fractured arm. Americans do not say “in” hospital; that is British, Canadian, and Australian usage. We say “in THE hospital.” I am shocked that you had to pay cab fares, but pleased that you got such expensive care so late in the year. In general we are told that funds tend to run out in Canada by August…how long were you on a waiting list?
I am very glad that you are pleased with your system, but ours is a family feud, and we prefer to muddle along in our quaint colonial way, thank you.
LBT
Dear Elitist Scum
Your health care solutions are just what the doctor of our constitution ordered. Your vision can become reality. Expected improvements in self-diagnostic technology and better education in regard to self-health care could eliminate many unnecessary doctor and hospital visits thereby saving enough to fund affordable catastrophic insurance plans. Americans can and should become more self-reliant in their health care as well as in many other areas now controlled by Big Government.
Bill
“Healthcare reform” has been an issue in dire need of reasoned debate for at least 20 years. Where were all the clowns calling for reasoned debate before the present time????? Where were you??
Hmm…. The people who profit from our demise by reinstating the “death tax”, are the same ones who are entrusted with our health care?? Sounds like a conflict of interests… someone call my broker!
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