Posted on 06/16/2009 9:42:52 AM PDT by reaganaut1
'You Be Obama'
No thanks.
But I could have been. However I chose to be someone with scruples instead.
I became a Pimp.
(no sarcasm tag needed)
This is more true of lawyers than doctors.
I'd hang myself!
Not that I agree with all this, but here are the talking points you hear:
1. 45 Million Uninsured (of which 10 million are our Mexican guests, and a bunch are people making enough to buy insurance but don't, and the rest are young people who don't see the need).
2. The Government funded programs are bankrupt and may drag down the entire US government in time. Medicare is a bigger problem than Social Security. We spend more on a per capita basis on our public health care than any other country, yet only 40% of citizens get anything for it. (The old, the young, the poor, the rest of us pay but get zip.)
3. Costs on the private sector are high, and rising. This supposedly makes USA less competitive as an employer. (But the same people who whine about this don't ever consider the cost of OSHA, EPA, OECC, and dozens of other government regulatory schemes, so they are at best disgenious)
4. The USA subsidizes the cost of new drugs via high prices. Canada pays less for the same drugs. Why?
5. It is difficult to acquire insurance if you have any pre-existing condition.
6. It is expensive to get insurance if you are a self-employed person.
7. Because of the above medical expenses are the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy.
Etc. You've probably heard them all before...
My thinking is that almost all of the problems are the result of previous government intervention. The reason health care is even linked with employment is a leftover from FDRs new deal where wage and price controls made giving people a raise a crime. So companies gave health insurance to entice people to work at their factory vs their competitors.
The fact that the part of the healthcare system the Government ALREADY runs is bankrupting us seems to say to me that they should FIX THAT FIRST before messing with the part that isn't that broken.
We still have "temporary" government programs left over from the 1930s. One of my favorites was a government guaranteed, no interest loan that was supposed to help rural farmers run electric lines to their homes. That program was still around the last I heard and the loans were going to a bunch of Chicago lawyers who figured out loopholes in the program.
More of this “INHERITED” BS..........!!
>Pay is divorced from performance. Users are separated from costs.
How is that different from socialized health-care? It seems like an apt descriptor to me.
>The first sentence is a flat out, blatant lie. Everything after that is a waste of time, effort and money
“Let’s say that you are President Obama.”? That sounds more like the set-up for a hypothetical than a lie to me; the sentences of the first paragraph following it, however, are a fallacious set-up.
>We still have “temporary” government programs left over from the 1930s.
Yep, the government gathers more cruft than the Unix operating system... and that’s saying something.
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