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Government and Healthcare A Win-Win for them

July 20, 2009 // Posted in Politically Thinking, Problem Is... (Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ) |  No Comments

    I still hear this debate about the new federal mandated health care that is trying to be forced into existence.  For one President Obama and other politicians are trying to push the passing of the new health care bill, and with parts constantly changing politicians can’t really read it.  Though in their defense even if they had the time to read it they wouldn’t, so all in all I guess nothing loss or nothing gained.  But there are real problems that many Americans should at least ask themselves before supporting this government project.
    One, the government will be in control, and I’ll quickly go over the ineptitude of current government run programs.  The TSA a government organization only catches 25% of contraband that they themselves test, meaning alot more stuff can get through.  When the government enters health care it’s even worse, the government takes care of Medicare…and if you notice many private organizations needed to invent Medicare Supplements so that people don’t fall through the cracks.  When you look at other countries health care systems you find many stories of people being denied treatment or people just being neglected.  I told a story during one of the show, where France needed to institute a law that said you couldn’t wait in an ambulance for more than five hours, something absolutely unheard of in our current system today.  I’d like to see how that’s treated here, “We arrived at the hospital, but you’re going to be here in this ambulance for the next four and a half hours…and then you can wait in the waiting room”.  I’m sure that I’d want to call ahead and reserve seating, something like I can do for an Outback Steakhouse.
    One of the biggest things I can’t understand that people are overlooking.  People who should be opposed to this new “government health care” aren’t opposed to it.  I know this isn’t big on people’s minds…but we want to pay more attention to that.  We all want government health care because we don’t want the evil companies taking advantage of us anymore.  Well if these people currently “screwing” us over, want this new health care we should start to wonder what’s in this legislation, or what we don’t know.  Think health care is a big funder of our current congress, if they wanted to they could crush this bill, as they have done so many times before.  Yet, their not why?  Because one of the ideas floating around, is requiring people to have health care and if you don’t have it…well the government will buy it for you.  See how the insurance companies can make a huge fortune off taxpayer backs?  Then the drug companies who have congress in their pockets, will lobby congress to only cover certain drugs…and the rest we’ll end up paying more for…once again…more money for those evil companies that we want to get rid of…this might be why they want this to pass.
    Congress is only to happy to quickly pass this legislation so that their buddies can make more money…and you the taxpayer will pay for it.  Once enacted, this system will never ever be pulled back.  I admit as anyone who has looked into the situation, is that the current system isn’t working, but getting the government involved isn’t the answer.  The same people who invented the DMV should never be put in charge of health care, its just common sense.  Instead moving away from health care and into a pay for service as needed like eye care is currently, and you’ll see prices come down a lot..because they would need to be affordable for the average person.  Then the control will be yours and your doctor…and only your control…both of the other suggestions puts someone not you in control of your health.  You can find countless stories of both insurers and governments denying health care for those who need it and when people beg nothing happens.  In the free market system, you can get treated and there would be organisations that would help for those emergency situations…but more people would survive.
     I know that all of this ranting will do nothing, that this government health care will pass, and because of it people will die.  This is just a normal nature of the American person now of days.  We all want the government to take care of us…and give up our freedoms in the process.  Well I know, only because it can’t continue this way, that this government will cause itself to fail.  Many state government are already going bankrupt and the federal government isn’t too far behind that.  The system either has to tax us at a higher rate…and the is only so much of that they can do, or cut their services (and we know they can never do that).  The system is doomed by it’s very existence…they can only grow so much before their system falls apart.

Sotomayor

July 13, 2009 // Posted in Politically Thinking (Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ) |  No Comments

    Supreme Court Nominee, sat today to begin the process of grilling that congress does before either accepting or denying a potential candidate.  As we have come to expect the two sides where devided on the candidate, like school children deciding on what color iPod they want.  The Republican sentators who are a little outnumbered (7-12), started exactly where you knew they would…the whole “wise latina woman” comments.  I had always had the image in my head, that to be a politican you needed to be a master tactician.  Instead, I only have come to see that politicans are like the people who can’t play any kind of stratagy game…I think that chutes and latters are to far adavanced stratagy game for these politicans.  Rather than dig in and find something that has been in the media since shortly after her nomination, they take the easy lazy route.  How can I trust a politican who doesn’t even hate this rival enough to dig and find more than that, they’ve gotten lazy.
    There are many stances that the republicans could have focused on, that might have made more of an impact…something like abortion.  There were several anti-abortion activists who were at the event, that attempted to shake Sonia Sotomayor up.  Yet surprising the Republicans didn’t fixate, like a dog on a bone, and go after that.  Atleast that then would have been more of a valid argument then she’s racist.  They tried the “liberal activist judge” card, but like usual that doesn’t surprise many of us.  These same people wouldn’t say sorry, your a religious conservative judge and we can’t have that in our court system.  We all know this to just be the back and forth game that they usually play and not much more…making the viewing of this boring.
    One of the few things that I would be surprised to see the republicans do to try to derail her, is ask her question reguarding her interpretation of the constitution, and would she support legislation that put 20 innoncent people in jail.  Use your own laws that you support to stangle her…because the argument is there.  Study up on some Libertarian blogs and use that to leverage herself and anyone that supports her into the corner, anything other than their current tactics.
    Sonia Sotomayor, in her opening, thanked the senators for their time with her, and how meeting with so many of them, “Our meetings have given me an illuminating tour of the fifty states and invaluable insights into the American people.”  Which leads me to think…is she that nieve.  Does she think that our representative are actually representative of the American people?  Because that’s grounds there to make me worry.  I am nothing like my elected officials…for one I work hard and don’t have alot to show for it yet. I don’t get to sit around pass laws and get paid a decent amount of money for it.  Also another thing that worried me, when she described her judicial style as “fidelity to the law”.  This is not what we should want our Supreme Court Justices to be loyal to….at least I wouldn’t.  Am I the only one who knows that the Supreme Court is suppose to act as a check to the congress?  So being loyal to the law, is a flawed outlook on the process…meaning she’ll obay the law.  Instead something she should be loyal to is liberty and justice…these are what we should expect the Supreme Court to uphold, not the law.  Lower court justices are tied to the law, because they swear to uphold and protect it…but Supreme court should be the opostie…to make sure that liberty and justice run this coutry….not laws.  This is what I think is wrong with this coutry…we’re loyal to laws…and not to freedom…the freedoms, that formed this country.

The healthcare debate

June 17, 2009 // Posted in Broken Systems (Tags: , , , , , , ) |  No Comments

    With Congress warming up the debate on the future of healthcare in this country, I though it was a good time to go over why this is a bad idea.  To name one, nothing that any congressional session or presidential office, that has made things easier and better, it will be a long time before you can think of something.  There are many out there, who would want to argue that fact and may try to point to some minimal example of where they may have made something better.
    The easiest point to make in this argument against government intervention is this simple point:  government has no incentive to make things quick and more efficient.  This is just a very simple and very powerful statement against this, the government will pay no more or less in healthcare for increased speed and better diagnosis.  So under the extra amount of more people who would be visiting the doctors and hospitals, you will have added delays in the time it takes for diagnosis and treatment.  There are incidents in other countries where care of people has been affected due to high volume.  I did a show last year, which in Europe there had to be a law passed that you couldn’t sit in an ambulance pass four hours.  That isn’t a problem that we currently expierance in this country in our current system.
    “Government Healthcare will be good for everyone” - Well this saying is easily disputed by looking once again at other countries where healthcare is government.  In Japan there was a story that the government enforced a weight limit for healthcare.  Now this wouldn’t be a first step in the US Government run health care, but as time passed and people complained about the increase in taxes, they would have to find ways to cut cost, I think that overweight people would be dropped first.  “Well it’s their fault for being overweight!” is an argument many of people would say.  The problem is that it’s a disorder, and these people would need to be covered just as well.  While people who currently have to avoid doctors could go, people who need doctors would have less access to them, causing issues.  In fact some people actually come to this country from Canada to have surgeries done, because there isn’t a reasonable timeframe for them to be done in their own country.
      Now I don’t want people to think I’m pro-HMO or current system, because I’m not.  In fact I agree with people that the system is broken, and government paying for it won’t solve it.  I think the opposite is true, that companies and government need to be out of healthcare.  I think that we should pay for healthcare, the same way we would with getting glasses or laser eye surgery.  I remember looking into laser eye surgery when it first came out, and it was so expensive that I would never be able to afford it.  Though after time, and as the procedure has gotten better and gotten more affordable, the same would happen with the healthcare system as a whole.  Now the savings wouldn’t be immediately, but as doctors competed for customers.  This also would take the decision making power out of government (proposed) and insurance companies (current) and put it in your hands.  Because you’d choose what you wanted to pay for and what you didn’t.  Even though you hear the government would take your decision away, you don’t have that decision currently.  Let’s make healthcare affordable and take it out of everyone else’s hands and bring it back to ours.  I bet we’d see better healthcare now, because your doctor would need to compete for your business.

President Obama vs Big Auto

May 20, 2009 // Posted in Politically Thinking, Problem Is... (Tags: , , , , ) |  No Comments

    President Obama today revieled a plan to make the automakers make more fuel effiecent and with less emmissons.  On the outset this idea completly scares me, I can see past the “oh it’s better for the earth this way” argument, and it shows a lack of thinking.  I personally, as I mentioned alot on my show, think that government should not be getting into the affairs of private buisness.  Plus to mention that the industry has been going in that direction for some time, since the being green has taken off, and I generally think that those new levels would have been met without government intervention.  This new law would make the automakers make their cars go at least 35 MPG, though my car only gets 5 miles less per gallon and I think that in 11 more years, they could have gotten those mils anyway.  Yet even with me believing the laws are useless and behind the times, I don’t think that the goverment should be in the business of telling business what to do.
    I make one expception in my bold statement that government should stay out of business, if a private business has taken money for a bailout from them, then they diserve being told to regulate themselves.  To me by accepting that money they took every string that government could attach to that money.  Though I think that consumers are a better regulator than the government, because we spend the money.  I think that like I vote for politicans, I vote for companies with my money and I don’t need the government telling me who is better.  To show you I mean it, I boycotted WalMart for 3 years because I didn’t like the way they let me go when I worked there.  I spent more money in other stores so I wouldn’t have to go in there.  Now I realize that one man didn’t hurt walmart at all, but I voted with my money, I choose who I wanted to do buisness with.
    The downside to this, is that if the government would have waited it would have gone along naturally, but with the government stepping in, these automakers can boost the prices up to make money off this law.  Now do I condone the automakers for doing this…no…but the government is setting them up to do this.  They have this money they owe the government, and they will make it up here, on the back of the consumers.  Who makes out in this new law?  I’ll tell you the car manufactures, and the government  gets a PR boost…and we pay more.  It’s the typical the rich get richer and well we get screwed all for something that would have happened anyway.
     Government in business is not what the founding fathers would have wanted, in fact our current government is nothing what they had imagined.  It has stepped the bounds of a governemt that was set up to protect us, instead we have a government that rules us.  It tells us what is right and what is moral and we have forgotten that we make that decission.  We as a group are way more powerful than the government and we need to remember that.  These laws will only benefit those who already are rich…and I don’t care what any of them say more expensive cars are not helpful to those struggling to get by.

$100 Million in Savings

April 20, 2009 // Posted in Politically Thinking (Tags: , , , ) |  No Comments

    President Obama asked government agencies to find and cut $100 Million dollars of pork. Now when I heard this, at first I thought great…I’d never see any of that money refunded in my taxes, but it was nice to see that money shifted to some senator’s pet project. Then I quickly remembered that congress and the president have spent over a trillion dollars. TRILLION! if we even stopped at spending $1Trillion, $100 Million is 1/10 of that!
So by my count the government still needs to at least cut $900 trillion more so my taxes don’t go up, and so eventually my taxes can go down. Though realistically I know my taxes will never go down, and regardless of political promises it will only go up. It’s something to think about when election time rolls around.
    Yet most of us will forget and these politicians will raise taxes and spend more money…and make the same old symbolic gestures where they “slash” the fat.  When honestly the are the ones creating the pork in the first place.  I think it’s funny the first time we hit a trillion in spending, they think a measly 10% cut all across government, which is more than a trillion in spending…not including the trillion they gave as bailouts….that a cut that small is nothing more than symbolic.  Let’s see them make some real change, and cut all government spending by 50%.  Then you’ll start to see the change, when you hit the major three things the government spends money on, Welfare, Military and their Pensions are hit…until that time…don’t be fooled by their magic tricks.