Health Care

For the past year the debate has been raging over “Heath care”, democrats suggesting that they want to reduce cost for those with insurance, insure those that are not or can not be insured, and guarantee through mandate that every American can buy insurance regardless of pre existing conditions. All noble and worthy causes! With Medicare fraud topping the 60 billion dollar mark there is no doubt that we need more controls. There is no doubt that people should have access to health insurance and that we should insure that for those that can not afford it, we provide some avenue for their health care needs. These are all reasonable and noble causes that every American can get behind, because every American knows a cancer survivor that can not get health insurance, they know those with fewer means that make the choice of housing and food over insurance of all kinds, not just health. The need is real and the cause is just, but are the methods being pursued noble and just? Or are the democrats simply seeking a means to an end (that end being single payer socialized medicine)?

Some of you may not realize that the federal government already has a couple of health insurance companies. One is Medicare, administered by the federal government with a budget of over $400 Billion dollars a year (14% of the nation’s total budget) with fraud that is rampant at 15%. Did you get that? 15% or roughly $60 Billion dollars of the over $400 Billion dollars is fraud and abuse! By 2013 the budget for Medicare will tower at $500 + Billion Dollars and represent a whopping 16% or our total outlay to the federal government, Please keep in mind that total defense spending is 20%.
The other is Medicaid; Medicaid is a subsidy program that disperses monies to the 50 states for them to partially fund health care for the indigent, low income, and uninsured. The budget for Medicaid is $216 Billion dollars in ’09 representing 7% or federal spending. If you do the math, the federal government spends 21% of OUR federal tax dollars on “Health Care” for us, the American People. Both systems are wrought with abuses and the government has done nothing to correct the problem. Instead they are budgeting cuts to these two programs that will reduce payments to doctors who are already cutting services to Medicare and Medicaid patients, reduce the amount of time they will pay for the rental of oxygen tanks for those that need them, yea that’s right, and cut the patient training for various services to seniors. GREAT plan! Do the people managing these plans strike you as the ones you want running your health care?

The reality is that the democrats do not want what they say they want, the reality is what they, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, have suggested it is… they want a single payer system and this is the way to get it! If the federal government passes this “Health Care” act, the costs will be so staggering that they will have no option but to either eliminate the program (equal to giving up control, and when have you ever seen the government do that?) or eliminate the system that exists and force a single payer system. By doing this they can mandate pricing and salaries for doctors and hospitals, they can ration the expensive tests, and as Obama said with his own words… evaluate the logic of spending a majority percentage of our health care dollars in the last few years of our lives (See Great Britain).

When Medicare was implemented in ’65 the house ways and means committee estimated that the Part A outlay would be 9 Billion Dollars annually by 1990, the actual cost for Part A… $67 Billion! Oversight? Inflation? The reality is that congress tells the American people whatever they must in order to get the bill passed. Like Medicare, this health care bill will not come in on budget and with the REAL cost being over $1 Trillion Dollars who knows what the final cost will be. If the Health Care bill follows the trend you will see it topping $1.5 Trillion Dollars, Is this sustainable with a total budget in ’09 of $3 Trillion dollars? And as you can see from the numbers above, Medicare has grown over 400% since ’90… can we afford a $4 + Trillion dollar bill in 19 years?
Sometimes the question should not be, can we do something but should rather be should we. We can fix health care though tort reform and mandates to insurers, by giving tax breaks to hospitals and doctors for un reimbursed costs, etc.

For the sake of your children and grand children, call your senator and DEMAND their NO vote on this bill. Ask them if this is so important, why they are willing to ram rod this through in reconciliation (a simple majority vote). They are killing this country and will destroy our ability to compete in the world.

Great government we have!

A sad day it is indeed today. We have moved to a full blown socialist nation when the United States House of Representatives can pass a bill that is so blatantly unconstitutional and there is virtually no outcry from the public at large.

On 19 March 2009 the United States of American has successfully traversed a path that Karl Marx would be proud of indeed. The Progressives in the country have finally gotten what they wanted and did not get with William Jefferson Clinton… a full blown Marxist in the White House and control of congress. No intelligent, independent thinking, and non biased person can look at the H.R 1586 and not see the class warfare being fought by Washington.

First we allow our Representatives (not leaders) to print money that has no value in order to bail out companies that are “too large to fail”, effectively transferring ownership to the government. Then we allow them to do the same thing with the largest of the banks, so now they not only control the corrupt “central bank” but also the banks that hold the wealth of the nation. And now we see them execute Act II of their path to Marxism… the encouragement of class warfare. How better to rile the ignorant electorate than to give tax payer dollars to effectively buy these companies, and in fact intentionally inserting an affirmative provision allowing these very bonuses, then feigning outrage when these bonuses are paid out.
HOW COULD AIG!! They are paying out hundreds of millions of dollars of tax payers money and we, your trusty LEADERS will not have it!!! You see what greedy rich people do to you poor poor little people? But don’t worry because Uncle Sam is here to help… GIVE ME A BREAK!

The government of the United States is doing the same thing with business that they did with many people in our society.
First step: tell the people that they are victims and that their failures are not their own but Uncle Sam is here for you.
Second step: Place the people in financial bondage, make them dependent on the government for food stamps, welfare, social security, etc, etc, etc.
Third step: do whatever the hell you want as there are none left that don’t depend on you for sustenance.

This is what they have done in a few short years with business! Encourage and then force banks to write bad paper, back it with Fanny and Freddy. Let Allen Greenspan artificially deflate interest rates allowing renters to buy and buyers to over buy (thanks for that George!). Banks AND BORROWERS get greedy, make and take loans they know are not sustainable long term. Then when the LONG TERM practice of credit default swaps crashes at the burst of the housing bubble, sweep in take control of the banks and other institutions (AIG) and who will oppose you?

The people are enslaved because you control their sustenance, those that are not dependent on you for sustenance are scared to death that you will take the wealth that they have left, as you control the banks that it rests in. And the rest of us are so few that we have no real ability to effect a change.

Bailing out any private institution was unconstitutional in the first place. Then the pass this bill that is a clear violation of Article 1 Section 9. This bill is two things, first it is Ex Post Facto and second it is a writ of attainder. Both of these are violations of the constitution and every member that voted for it should be dragged out into the street and shot!

For those of us who care about this country and what it used to stand for, WE MUST STAND UP! If we must take back this country at the point of a gun then so be it.