Congress and Obama are rushing through a health insurance bill that will force everyone into the same plan. Well, not everyone, since public employees and those on public pensions may not be required to participate in the public option (what a misnomer that is!). Congress, Obama, and government worker unions have no intention of relying on second rate socialized medicine, which is being designed for those who are without influence in the Democratic Party. Last night, Barack Obama, during the ABC News infomercial, refused to commit to treating his own family under the "public option," insisting that he "always wants them to get the very best care." That statement tells me everything I need to know about the health care bill. Since Barack is special, he gets to write his own exception into law along with Democrats in Congress.
Update:
Another suggestion by President Obama was also revealing. He suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to gain from the extra care. Obama said families need better information so they don't unthinkingly approve "additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care." He also added: "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller." So who is going to decide that? Government, of course! A bureaucrat will be sitting in his/her office and see the request for a procedure. This bureaucrat will then open a big thick tome of rules and regulations and make a decision based on criteria set for in the big thick volume. Nope! That patient does not qualify. He/she is one year past the highest allowable age for such procedures. Request denied!
One may ask, "how is that different that current circumstances?"
The answer is "none," of course, so why do we need to speed bazillions for no improvement?
The exception is that the bureaucrat is currently an insurance company that can be sued, whereas the bureaucrat probably cannot be sued.
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What a mess. I am already crazy that the climate control bill got passed. I have heard/read way more negative than positives over this. In the end it will cost us more to live, and send our jobs overseas. We really don't need that now. We are all nuts if we buy into that idea that we have to be the first to do this so the rest of the world will follow. The rest of the world is not going to put climate control laws into practice like this one. They won't be able to afford it. They'll all just sit back and watch us throw money into the pockets of green manufacturers who are owned or have shares owned by the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore and be happy to send our jobs over seas to them. I read that Al Gore stands to earn 2 million dollars in his own interests because this law was passed. If that is true....I hope he donates it to those who will be losing jobs because companies won't be able to afford to maintain their businesses over here to meet the new climate law criterias.
Oops...I turned that into climate law and took the attention off of Health care. Sorry. I agree with you on the health care point. I am not sure I want the government to do what the insurance companies are already doing. The government will probably be even less efficient at managing health care than the health care industry. What a mess!
Once the health care bill is passed, it won't be repealed, no matter how bad it may turn out to be.
The climate bill may not get through the Senate, but if it does, it can easily be trashed by the next congress, which will be a bit more conservative, I believe.
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