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.
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Government and Healthcare A Win-Win for them
July 20, 2009 // Posted in Politically Thinking, Problem Is... (Tags: Congress, Conservative, Democracy, Democrat, Government, Healthcare, Jim Guckin, Jim Guckin Show, Liberal, Libertarian, Liberty, Media, Moderate, News, President Obama, Spending) | No Comments
1 State down….49 to go!
July 6, 2009 // Posted in Broken Systems, Politically Thinking, Problem Is... (Tags: California, Congress, Conservative, Democracy, Democrat, Government, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Guckin, Jim Guckin Show, Liberal, Libertarian, Liberty, Moderate, News, Recession, Representative, Republic, Republican, Spending) | No Comments
“The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.”
-Thomas Jefferson
As many of you are quite aware now, the state of California is now broke. The politicians are turning to their same old games once again on blaming each other so as to keep us well distracted. The state in order to operate is now passing out IOUs, the same ones we use to hand out as children. I am lucky to not live in California at this time, because all an IOU really is, is leveraging this money on the children of the state. These young children in grade school, playing kickball have no idea the debt that we are shoving upon them or the poverty which we are going to shove upon them. The even sadder news is, this isn’t just California many states are being forced into the same situation, and California is just the first in the series of dominos.
The major problem is, is that the states want to help everyone, and as they stretch their dollars thin, they need more taxes to fill the gaps. Now rather than cut their plans and ideas down, they opt for the more destructive plan, they tax more. The problem is that at a certain tipping point, the voters fight back, and they hold off. This is where we currently are at, politicians have pushed taxes as high as they were going to go, and we don’t want to pay anymore. State recently tried taxing the rich more, and the rich have moved from those states, causing less revenue. This situation has run into the proverbial end of the line, they are running out of money, yet they just keep spending. To me it seems like they just can’t help themselves, they are spending themselves out of existence. Their amount of IOUs will only keep growing, and when people realize that they are worthless, they will stop accepting them. Once the IOUs are gone, then they have two actions, tax more or cut spending drastically….and if history dictates, they will tax more until the politicians and the absolute poor are the only ones left.
This isn’t just a state level problem, even though many states are experiencing the same problems, the federal government is doing the same thing. There is just one catch though, the federal government can just keep printing the money and keep circulating it…this doesn’t solve their problem, just makes it harder to see…though we’ll all pay when the dollar is worthless. Our politicians spending are ruining this country…and we are the ones who all pay. Why should children playing in a school yard today be held with the frivolous spending of us currently? When did they agree to be saddled with our debt and our mismanagement? I think politicians need to wake up slash all spending by 75% and cut their juicy benefits. Then get this country out of debt and make sure I, you, and our children get as much of our hard earned money as possible. Politician’s pet projects need to be stopped, and instead of adding more laws they need to be cutting useless laws.
We need to watch California, so that we all don’t make the same mistakes in our states. With the Governor blaming one and the democrats blaming him…and nothing gets done. With the 4th of July that just passed, think about freedom, because freedom and protecting everyone’s liberty will cut spending…even if we don’t agree with it.
$100 Million in Savings
April 20, 2009 // Posted in Politically Thinking (Tags: Congress, Government, President Obama, Spending) | 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.