Posted by
Steve on Monday, July 20, 2009 2:21:04 PM
There are a lot of things coming out of the Obama administration as a smoke screen for the real goal of taking over the healthcare system in the country. The goal of taking over the health care system is not to improve the delivery of health care or even to provide health insurance to those that are uninsured. No, the goal is to give the federal government more control over the lives of every day Americans as possible.
If you read between the lines on what is said by the Obama administration, you can figure out what they are talking about. They are talking about reducing the cost of delivering Medicare. There is only one way to reduce the cost of delivering health care to the elderly is to reduce the health care to the elderly. That means that the elderly will not get the same level of medical care as they get today. Instead of treating them as long as they live, they will stop receiving medical care over a certain age for the high cost services. For routine services, there would be no change. The only change would come if the person needed a hip replacement or something like that. Today, that person would get the hip replacement. Under Obamacare, that person would be denied care because they were too old for the country to receive a benefit for their hip replacement. That would mean a shorter live span for those getting up there in years. You know it is a bad deal when the Congress votes to include everyone except for Congress under this government option.
Once Obamacare becomes entrenched, they will start making lifestyle changes for people receiving government health care. They will deny care for lung cancer if the person had been smoking or some other lifestyle choice that is out of favor with the Congress. This is the scary part. They could mandate changes in lifestyle that people would not agree with. The people could fight back, but would have no chance at winning because they have no power. I do not care to have the government tell me what I should do or not do with my life. I want to be the boss of me as Walter E. Williams likes to say.
The cost of Obamacare is another objection. The Congressional Budget Office has put the cost of Obamacare (House version) at over $1.3 trillion. Max Baucus in the Senate has kept that plan under wraps, so nobody knows what is included in that plan. We all know how the Congressional Budget Office consistently underestimates the cost of programs. They will estimate that something will cost $1 billion over at 5 year period and at the end of 5 years it is costing at least $10 billion for just one year. That means that within the 10 year lifespan of the Congressional Budget Office estimate, we can expect that the cost will be a minimum of twice $1.3 trillion and more like 10 times that cost. That is just the cost that will be added to what we would already spend on health care. The other dirty little secret is that only about ½ to 2/3 of the estimated 40 million uninsured people would receive insurance. The other 1/3 to ½ would still be uninsured at the end of the 10 years. All that cost and you do not even do what the supposed goal of the program is. That program would have to be considered a failure and we haven’t even taken it out on the road for a test drive.
There is only one reason the Democrats and Obama want this health care bill passed and that can be summed up in one word, POWER. It has nothing to do with insuring the uninsured as their plan states. It has everything to do with giving the government power over individuals, so they can tell those individuals what to do. It also is designed to guarantee that people will vote Democrat. The Democrats would go into every election telling people that the “evil” Republicans want to take your health care away. That system of envy works very well in keeping the voters from voting for the other party. After a while the other party adopts your socialist agenda and you have won the war.
The time to defeat this “evil” plan is now. Right now, before the Democrats implement it. If it gets implemented, it will be too late to go back to what we have now. We would be stuck with the socialist plan until some country shows us the way out. England and Canada are both starting to move away from their socialist plan that we are trying to adopt. How ironic, we are trying to emulate England and Canada and England and Canada are trying to emulate us.
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