If you havent heard that a serious push for a government take-over of 15% of our national economy is under way, the cave you are in sounds very inviting at this point. President Barak Hussein Obama spent several hours doing an unprecedented tour of the Sunday news shows to sell his socialist health care reforms. His campaign road show spectacular is geared to convince the emotional and the ignorant that a vast new government program can:
1 – provide health care for EVERYONE
*President Barack Obama says requiring people to get health insurance and fining them if they don’t would not amount to a backhanded tax increase. “I absolutely reject that notion,” the president said. Blanketing most of the Sunday TV news shows, Obama defended his proposed health care overhaul, including a key point of the various health care bills on Capitol Hill: mandating that people get health insurance to share the cost burden fairly among all. Those who failed to get coverage would face financial penalties.
2 fund the program with savings in the current system
*He told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that he will keep his pledge not to raise taxes on families earning up to $250,000, and that much of the final bill hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 10 years can be achieved from savings within the current system. Coming up with the rest remains a key legislative obstacle.
3 Not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250K
*see #2 above
*”What it’s saying is, is that we’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore,” said Obama.
*”I do think that giving a disincentive to insurance companies to offer Cadillac plans that don’t make people healthier is part of the way that we’re going to bring down health care costs for everybody over the long term,” Obama said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
4 make insurance affordable
*Obama said other elements of the plan would make insurance affordable for people, from a new comparison-shopping “exchange” to tax credits.
5 actually work
I call to your attention the wonderful success of such government run programs as Medicare (bankrupt), Medicaid (bankrupting all 50 states), Social Security (bankrupting future generations), Veterans Administration (bankrupt, but one of the very few government programs we should support)
President Barak Hussein Obama actually thinks the opposition to his blatantly unconstitutional plan is based solely on political motives:
Obama told Univision’s “Al Punto” (“To the Point”) that the strong opposition to his plan is part of a political strategy. “Well, part of it is … that the opposition has made a decision,” he said. “They are just not going to support anything, for political reasons.”
Political powerhouse Jimmy Carter recently slammed the race card on everyone that is opposed to President Barak Hussein Obamas health care take-over “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man,” Carter said.
Its amazing how the left constantly trots out race to build up their position and tear down others, then call everyone else a racist. Race has nothing to do with the opposition, politics has nothing to do with it either. Love of our country and our freedom have everything to do with it. Government control has never been efficient, economical or given us more competition. It is the government mandates and price fixing under the Medicare and Medicaid systems that are sinking the health care system and closing hospitals.
If President Barak Hussein Obama actually cared about listening to anyone about health care reform there have been conservative options freely given for many years. There are 3 things that need to be done:
1 Get government out of health care and allow the free market to actually function.
A End all government interference in pricing and care decisions
B End all government mandates on coverage and restrictions on insurance portability
2 Tort Reform
A Loser pays if you bring a junk lawsuit and lose, you are responsible for defendants legal fees.
B No more massive-million dollar awards for damages. Living expenses, follow up or corrective health care, legitimate costs and impact to the patient are legitimate.
3 End government mandates to provide treatment to illegal aliens.
“Obama and his commissars are labeling Americans who just happen to oppose Cap & Trade, billions for clunkers and to the havoc the leftists are trying to wreak on our health care system, as brainless sheep. Large groups of citizens rise up to voice their grievances and he calls them mobs, claims that grass roots are really made of Astroturf and tells his minions to ape the Soviets and rat out their friends and neighbors. Some people I know refer to what Obama is doing as social engineering. I think it’s something even worse: socialist engineering. I wonder if anyone else has noticed that whenever a black conservative voices an opinion, the liberal claque insists that he’s not an authentic black, and when a white conservative voices an opinion, Obama’s sycophants insist he’s not an authentic American. When Obama was running for the presidency, a few of us Paul Revere wannabes were warning you: ‘The reds are coming! The reds are coming!’ Naturally, Obama, a born and bred race hustler who learned his lessons well from Jeremiah Wright, wanted you to believe that the only reason people could possibly have for opposing him was his race. But it was never about the color of his skin. It was always about the color of his politics.” –columnist Burt Prelutsky
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