A Health Care Dispatch from Amsterdam

I have been out of the country now for about fifteen days and have religiously kept up with this monstrosity of a health care reform bill through the wonder that is Twitter.  It saddens me that the Progressives are so hell bent on taking away our freedom that they are using every legal and extra-legal parliamentary shenanigan ever devised to pass this unpopular legislation.  They think that they are being so clever with their “Reconciliation” and “Deemed Passed” and Stupak’s a non-binding political cover vote AFTER the bill is passed and the sleazy open bribes for votes…all the while ignoring the will of the people who are solidly in opposition to this bill.  As with everything else this leftist wrecking crew in Congress and the White House devises; it’s all about the spin, and the President’s ego and a government takeover of every aspect of our lives.  We liberty loving Americans are viewed as a dying breed of no consequence.

Let’s be clear…EVERYONE in America has access to health care.  But not everyone has access to decent and affordable health insurance coverage.  There is a difference.  Do we need to reform the way we pay for and deliver health care in America?  Damn right we do.  We need tort reform.  We need the ability to purchase insurance across state lines.  We need to remove barriers to coverage based on pre-existing conditions.  We need to cover those that can’t afford coverage.  What we don’t need is a 2,300 page, hastily cobbled-together piece of legislation that no one wants to read and is a direct threat to our liberty and the financial health of our great Nation.  According to the Speaker, we have to pass it so we can learn what’s in it.  How is this rational government?

And the projected costs are breathtaking.  Is the bill deficit neutral as promised so many times?  Absolutely not.  The CBO’s preliminary, and well-trumpeted by the MSM, cost estimate that is just under the politically unacceptable number of one trillion dollars, is based on draft, not final, legislative language and an intellectually dishonest scoring system that assumes ten years of revenue and six years of cost!  Forget the awful socialization aspects of the health care bill for a minute…do they really believe we Americans are so stupid as to accept this bald-faced untruth about the actual cost?   How the President can stand there lip-synching to his teleprompter and outright lie to the American public is, frankly, unacceptable.  Congressman Joe Wilson was right and continues to be right.  Mr. President; “You lie!”

There are many good reasons why health care reform needs to be addressed by Americans.  Are there uninsured in America?  Sure for a variety of reasons…can’t pay for insurance, don’t want to pay for insurance or are legally uninsurable because they are not citizens.  Wouldn’t an expansion of Medicare for those who can’t pay be a more reasonable approach?  There will always be uninsured in America and even under this bill the CBO estimates 30 million citizens still won’t be covered by 2019.  Are there underinsured in America?  You bet and they deserve to be granted opportunities to have access to decent affordable coverage.  This screams for a free-market solution not a government mandated scheme.

Ever been frustrated with trying to obtain proper reimbursement for health care services only to find yourself in that peculiar bureaucratic labyrinth  devised by the insurance companies where it takes multiple calls and unending documentation submittals?  Something here certainly needs reforming but is the addition of federal bureaucracy going to improve the service? 

Unfortunately this narcissistic President and his Progressive acolytes in Congress have spent so much of their political capital with the American people on this awful bill that the well has been truly and forever poisoned for any future bipartisan approaches to real health care reform.

The facts:

This bill will add to the budget deficit.  It will cost American jobs. It will devastate small businesses. It will balloon the federal budget.  It will restrict our freedom of choice.  It will bankrupt the country.

It will not solve the real health care issues.  It will not cover all Americans.  It will not make us healthier.  It will not reduce the budget deficit.  It will not settle the debate.

Or the civil unrest to come.

Are we being led by fools or are we the fools?

Sigh…

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