The 2 -part question I have for the Health Care debate is:
If it’s such an emergency and so crucial to the “lowering of the deficit” as our President claims then why is the implementation day January 1, 2013, just over 3 years from now?
And if it’s not, why are we ramming through so fast? What’s the rush?
The rush is, to get their teeth into you and like a pit bull, never let go.
Once they can control of who lives and who dies, what can’t they control.
Did you know that one of the president’s recent arguments are disingenuous at best?
“The federal government should require everyone to purchase health insurance”, President Barack Obama said today, “just as car insurance is mandated”
The main problem with that is, that you can buy auto insurance from ANYONE and you can take it with you when you move, change jobs, even across state lines. You can even change companies whenever YOU feel like it.
It’s portable.
Did you know it’s against the law for Health Insurance to be portable for you?
Did you know that the tax incentives given to employers to get health insurance for the employees are illegal for individuals.
So, the government that wants to make Health Insurance mandatory also passed the laws that make it impossible for you to take your health insurance with you if you change jobs!
And then they scare you with it that very fact. The one they created!
When the economy has lost 6 million jobs and you fear for your job and your president constantly talks about people without health insurance going bankrupt, what he doesn’t say is that the government did that to you too!
And now they want to do it again!
And that will “save” you.
He
age 65 go without health coverage at some point in a 10-year period. The data came from a
study that tracked the insurance status of a sample of people from 1997-2006.
The report also found that 57 percent of those under 21 will find themselves without
insurance at some point during a span of 10 years and that more than one-third of Americans
will be without coverage for a year or more.
Yeah, and I could walk outside of my house and get hit by a car in the next five minutes too.
And do you how many of these people will be without insurance, because they lost their job and their health care wasn’t portable because the government passed laws against it. A lot.
So are you smelling a rat, yet? A disingenuous one?
Federal tax incentives have created a world in which the vast majority of people get health insurance through their employers. Then to really screw ordinary Americans, the tax code actually punishes people who don’t get their health insurance through an employer by denying individuals the tax deduction for health insurance that their employers get.
Meanwhile, state governments must approve the insurers allowed to operate in their states, while mandating a list of services, usually totally unfunded. But if you want to do business in my state, you will do as I say.
Do you realize how heavily regulated to death Insurance of all types is already?
Probably not.
So, now the government wants to “compete” with the regulations they created to squash competition in the first place.
Now that’s disingenuous at best.
Then there’s the other current tactic.
I will agree to hear your idea, then I will ignore it, and do whatever the hell I want. But, I can say I listened and if you vote against me you’re just “the party of no”.
How condescending, but very political is that?
And since that is true, in order to pass my agenda you force me to use sleazy parliamentry tricks, like reconciliation that only requires a majority (which I have) instead of the 60 votes I’d normally need.
Thus I get what I want, and screw you.
You think that’s a bit harsh…well:
“The White House has a message to the tens of thousands of protesters who railed against big government during a rally in Washington Saturday: You’re wrong.
White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that the protesters, part of the “tea party” movement, do not represent the views of the broader public when it comes to health care reform.
“I don’t think it’s indicative of the nation’s mood,” Axelrod said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “You know, I don’t think we ought to be distracted by that. My message to them is, they’re wrong.”
Axelrod said that President Obama has made clear he wants to “build on the system that we have,” dismissing concerns that the president is proposing a large-scale government intervention and claiming broad support for the president’s plan.”
Yep, they’re listening alright.
INDIANOLA — At his 32nd annual Steak Fry fundraiser, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) was cheered by an enthusiastic crowd when he declared that a health care reform bill would pass both houses of Congress “by Christmas,” and that it would include a government-run, not-for-profit health insurance plan.
“Mark my word — I’m the chairman — it’s going to have a strong public option,” said Harkin, who last week replaced the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) as chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee. (Iowa Independent)
The time for debate is over, as the President said in his Campaign speech last week.
And that’s Bi-partisan for you.
And they are listening to you.
They care.
Anyone seen my flying pig…
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