The Faster Congress And The Administration Go, The Behinder We All Get (Updated)
July 16th, 2009
(Update): Usually our updates are placed at the bottom of a post but in this instance and on this topic, the following link provides information so important I placed it here.
For the latest including many updates on Congressional movement in regards to a health care package go here. If you are covered by a private health insurance plan at the moment,be sure to read all the way to the bottom of Ace’s post.
Our only hope of stopping Congress from usurping our individual right to choice may sit with the Senate if the House continues on the path pursued today. Pressure needs to be applied in order to be certain a bill is not legislated into law which will take over control over your well being.
Call, email and phone your elected representatives in both Houses, and politely offer your opinion on their enactment of another government controlled faction of our lives.
(end update)
The administration seems bent on getting this health care debacle through Congress in time for the August recess.
What’s the rush?
Let’s see.
Lawmakers pass another hurried, bad (unread) bill through Congress, and then retreat for a month on a much needed vacation , all the while ducking any negative questions which might be posed them by their constituents. After all, this is all in our best interest, or haven’t you gotten the message.
Now, while the mice (congress) are away, the cats (the press) will work tirelessly to inform us that Obama and the democratic Congress worked tirelessly to provide us with this much needed overhaul, all the while ignoring those insignificant facts like this:
The legislation unveiled yesterday would place additional taxes on households with more than $350,000 a year in income and calls for further increases if the measure doesn’t hit a target for cost savings. The provisions are intended to raise $544 billion over 10 years.
House leaders said the plan, which includes mandates to purchase coverage and a public health-insurance option, would cover 97 percent of Americans by 2019. President Barack Obama praised their work, saying it will “begin the process of fixing what’s broken” in the system. emphasis-admin
No sir. No personal choices for Americans.
There must be psychics among those writing legislation these days, as they appear to know just how much money one must earn to be able to afford a health care plan. Never mind everyone has bills and gee, there’s that thing called food we all must put on the table.
So if you’re poor and uninsured you get taxpayer subsidized government health care. If you’re rich, you can buy any health care you want. But if you’re not poor and not rich and don’t have insurance, you pay taxes.
What about our ever growing senior population?
Obama’s health care proposal is, in effect, the repeal of the Medicare program as we know it. The elderly will go from being the group with the most access to free medical care to the one with the least access. Indeed, the principal impact of the Obama health care program will be to reduce sharply the medical services the elderly can use. No longer will their every medical need be met, their every medication prescribed, their every need to improve their quality of life answered.
Wake up America or you will one day find that our government has its hand in every facet of your personal life. You will not be allowed vices of any sort with which they do not agree.
You will be forced to make choices about your personal finances based on the taxes which will be imposed upon you for being successful.
The style of our automobiles will be designed to accommodate what our lawmakers determine politically (global warming) correct. The only pleasure here would be to watch the plush riding politicians fit into those boxes they would have us drive, assuming of course that they would have to follow their own laws due to well, security concerns or something.
Small business may well become a thing of the past as the government certainly does not want to assume control of all the little guys across the United States. Besides, how will they afford the mounting cost of providing health care for employees else be penalized in the form of taxation?
There are those of us who are befuddled by all that is taking place in Washington these days but I will close with the words of Robert Gibbs when questioned on July 13th about the desired swift passage of the health care bill:
TAPPER: The president has said that health care reform, he’d like it on his desk by the August recess* and thinks that…
GIBBS: Well, I think — I think the president has talked about moving a bill forward. I don’t — I don’t think anybody was under the illusion that the whole process would be wrapped up by — by the beginning of August.
TAPPER: What does he want done by the beginning of August?
GIBBS: Well, I think we can get a bill through — bill through the House and bill through — hopefully a bill through the Senate. But I don’t think anybody’s under the illusion that all of it’s going to be wrapped up in just a couple of weeks, but that we can make a lot of progress towards that goal.
When they figure it all out, I’m sure they’ll let us know.
Written by Sue
Posted in 4 Responses to “The Faster Congress And The Administration Go, The Behinder We All Get (Updated)”
Everything with this man with the golden TOTUS is always to be done in a hurry from the stimulus bill to cap and trade to now health care.
We just yesterday signed up with a medi-gap insurance plan for my husband, who became medicare eligible July 1. What is this going to do to him now since they will only pay the difference between what Medicare pays and if Medicare decides it’s not a covered expense we’re in heap big trouble.
By the way, after seeing these shoe boxes of cars how many older people do you think are nimble enough to get into one? How safe are they? This is all poppycock and the masses seem to be just sitting there taking it.
Congress is not just bent on passing this stuff; they are hell bent on passing it.
Right now all we can do is pray the Republicans hold and the Blue Dogs go along with them. Once we hit next year they won’t dare touch this legislation because they’ll want to be re-elected. It’s time for Obama, Pelosi, Reid and associates to go. Past time, IMO. Republicans had better not cave on this one and I’m thinking of Snowe and Collins.
Another aspect of the rationing that I don’t see pointed out is that in countries with single payer the docs don’t just decide when old people should die, they decide when sick newborns should die as well. While most people will never have a baby that sick it is a situation that happens enough in Great Britain that howls of protests are making it to the mainstream press there.
I will never understand how those who want a public option believe themselves to be compasionate for the sick and yet in every thread I see there is always someone lecturing us how “you will die one day, get over it” and that some lives are worth more than others. This is not really about health care, this is about class warfare and greed.
By the way, I am a chronically ill person with a very expensive disease. The other day one of my extremely liberal healthy middle class friends was complaining to me that her annual pap smear is just “too expensive” and that she can’t afford it, thus we should have single-payer. There are millions of chronically ill Americans who will be paying more taxes and give up life improving drugs so that abled-bodied people can have a few hundred dollars of health care “for free”. The punchline is that _I_ am the selfish one for wanting to keep my private insurance and stay alive while they are the “compassionate” ones for giving out free pap smears and well baby check ups at the expense of the elderly and chronically ill.
Thank you for your very interesting and informative comment, Karen, and welcome to our site. We hope you will continue to visit us often.
Karen, thanks for taking the time to leave such a detailed comment on this issue.
Your situation, as you present it is a perfect case in point of why this government controlled health care system should be dead in the water.
I read another article yesterday in which Obama has requested Governors not use the words “rationed health care” when addressing his plan. He supposedly is concerned that the American people will not buy into a plan if it is framed in such a way. Really? Does he believe we are all blithering idiots who cannot fathom what his ideas will do to our quality of life?
All the talk (and action) of changing, reshaping and remaking America has gone too far. America, with all her faults, is just fine, thank you.