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Posted on 08/27/2009 4:41:42 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
That’s what he said, albeit with the omission of “Hitler-esque,” last night at his town hall meeting in North Central Phoenix. During his introductory speech, after hammering the Democrats for trying to push through the “public option” (a euphemism for socialized healthcare), he then went on to describe ways healthcare costs could be brought down, emphasizing, “We have the best quality healthcare in the world. Our goal is to preserve the quality (of healthcare) while making it more affordable.”
His three main ideas to bring down healthcare costs: 1) Freeing up insurance markets and competition so Americans can buy different policies across state lines. (Okey-dokey, there. Doesn’t sound too bad. Competition almost always leads to lower prices, unless the competition unites to fix prices, or, the government “option” itself fixes prices through price controls—Obama’s illiterate idea of “competition.”); 2) Tort reform. (Stricter laws against frivolous lawsuits protecting productive citizens—America’s physicians—against blood-sucking creeps like John Edwards. Then make the loser pay. Rather than hiring ignorant federal bureaucrats to tell physicians how to do their jobs, a little tort reform would lower costs by eliminating the need for physicians to perform unneeded tests. Socialists, in their typical class-warfare zeal, blindly believe that physicians conspire around the world to repress the masses by testing them too much in order to increase costs. They don’t. I know, personally, because my father is a physician and many other members of my family have worked in the healthcare business their entire lives—as physicians, nurses or administrators. The scary people in white coats perform the extra tests so they don’t get sued out of existence by, again, creeps like John Edwards.); and lastly 3) “Wellness incentives.” (Uh-oh.)
McCain was on the right track until he hit this number. Of course, being a mainstream Republican, he’s not really in favor of de-socializing (that is, liberalizing) medicine to the extent that it’s already socialized. In order to do that, he would have to favor privatizing Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. McCain (nor any other mainstream Republican, for that matter) will ever favor such sensible moves toward freeing our healthcare system from government control. Now he’s proposing (and probably considering “reaching across the aisle” again) a classical fascist initiative: giving Americans incentives to live healthier lives, that is, lives the government deems healthy. In his speech, he targeted smokers, drinkers and crackled on about the “obesity problem.” Great. The health Nazis and fun-suckers (thank you, P.J. O’Rourke) have a new hero to cry to in their crusade to evade and fight death as they force others to live miserable, guilt-ridden lives until their time comes. To any historian or average American willing to spend some work-time on the internet, it’s no secret that Hitler was an avid promoter of health-consciousness. As the Hitler Youth used to say: “Your nutrition is not a private matter!” Obama and McCain agree.
McCain...a statist...what a shock. /sarc
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This ‘horse whisperer’ is a weasel who crawls back and forth over the aisle in order to ‘reach out’ to his Democrat buddies.
Foxtrot Uniform, McCain.
He’s delusional. What a POS.
The day I do not have to hear the name of this guy I will rejoice. He’s like a bad headache.
"Then its agreed. We support Obama. We attack Palin and her handicapped child."
"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
-- President Ronald Reagan
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
-- President Ronald Reagan
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Dear Obama and McCain- Stay the hell outta’ my life and my wallet.
McCain, announce your retirement! Best “wellness incentive” I can think of.
Bottom line: McCain is not very bright and at times borders on idiocy.
What IS IT this geezer doesn’t understand about GET THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY LIFE AND AWAY FROM MY DOCTOR?
Would Arizona please put us (and him) out of our misery? Please?
There’s noting Hitleresque about anything McCain said, though the author is entitled to make a fool of himself.
Why does anything John “I never met a problem the government couldn’t fix” McCain comes up with surprise anybody?
Yep, foxtrot uniform McCain.
We need to do whatever it takes to retire this clown for good. He needs to be permanently relegated to a talking head role on Anderson Cooper 360 and the Ed Schultz show.
John McCain is a nefarious, arcane, political idiot, who thinks that there is something sacred about compromise itself.
With the Obama Movement there IS no compromise. Obama is the sworn enemy of the Republic. And McCain doesn't realize it. He might though , too late, when our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq are plunged into Vietnam II by Obama's policies. Obama doesn't want our soldiers home either. He wants them ground to dust in a war of attrition against the World Caliphate enemy.Hell, Mccain was more strident in disagreeing withh "W" than he is with Resident Obama.
Time to kick McCain out , along with Collins, Snowe and Sphincter.
What bothers me most about health care, whether it has a public option or not, is the use of the IRS to qualify Amerians for health care ( sliding fee scales, more you earn, the more you pay) and for enforcement of the collection of health care bills that remain unpaid.Imagine having your hme seized without a court hearing because your wife had cancer?
McCain knows all this, yet he is pushing his nefarious plan designed to confiscate wealth from Americans who become ill, who have worked hard and saved their whole life for retirement. A pox on McCain, and his "progressive:"idiot ideas. He is worse than Obama is, at leat we know what Obama is now, and McCain doesn't , or pretends he doesn't.
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