The next two weeks will be health care, health care, health care.
Barack Obama has devoted much of his political capital on passing health care reform. It was the issue that derailed Bill Clinton’s administration in its first year, and the GOP is looking to make health care reform Obama’s first major defeat in 2009.
Barack Obama has made health care reform the central issue for the first year of his presidency. His legacy, he believes, rides on this. According to Obama, we can’t afford NOT to pass health care reform. In an era of multi-trillion dollar deficits, we need to create yet another government bureaucracy, which according to President Obama will somehow NOT increase our deficit.
In some insane twist of logic, Obama claims that his national health care will reduce government costs. Also, note the promises Obama makes in this speech:
1) Deficits will not increase
2) You will keep your choice of doctor
3) He will reduce your health care costs
How is all of this possible?
It’s not.
As Michelle Malkin points out, there is no way ANY of this is true.
Obama does not offer much in the way of specifics, because the specifics do not exist. Even centrist Democrats are balking at Obama’s health care plan because they do not believe that it is feasible as reported here.
This is just another ill-advised Obama fantasy that will send trillions of taxpayer dollars down the toilet.
Obama Health Care Address
July 18th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
All lies! I’m watching Huckabee and he has all of these people on who are from Canada and came to the US to get healed.
July 18th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
What Malkin is not telling you is inaction is not an option. We have to do something and accepting that is a start. I do believe that health care costs will continue going up, maybe we can control the rate of rise, unless we get in some serious competition among the insurers, unless we cut the debt of medical students, unless we lift the malpractice and huge administrative burdens from their shoulders, and most importantly we educate the public about two things, prevention(cut out all the obesity Americans) and stop the insane reliance on extremely expensive high tech machinery. We can’t automate ourselves out of good physician hands on clinical care. sorry. Yes, losing some extra weight will cut your pill and mri bills when you have a minor accident. Since states require all drivers to have insurance to drive a car, why cannot they require all people to have some kind of health insurance plan, public or private. If we get people enrolled in preventative and maintainance care early we will save a ton on medicare in the end. Malkin is a hit man for the right and her analysis is a scare tactic based on her “all knowing cynicism”. Well I don’t want my country run that way, because no action is no longer an option. Why the right has so caved into the extremely well funded insurance and industry lobbyiests is a real statement to whom they work for. We need to try something new and now we have 70 percent of the American people up for it. If it turns out to have problems, and I expect it will, we can relegislate sensible change. This doesn’t mean legislating some giant federal program as Senator Collins and others are looking at regional insurance cooperatives, more active state involvement, etc. One thing is clear, if everyone kicks into insurance the level of uncompensated care absorbed by private and public hospitals will go way down and so will wait times. Everyone will game the system of course, and adapt to maximize profit and shorten time flow. It will force change on the system. Our “system” now is a total expensive unaccountable mess,, and you want to tell me we should do nothing?
July 18th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
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July 18th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
The Republicans DO NOT MATTER, right now. They cannot even filibuster. The only thing they got is Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News.
So, any hashing it out as far as health care reform is concerned is purely a Democratic affair. No Republicans allowed, thank you. It is a little irritating to see the debate framed as having something to do with what Republicans want, when they are on the sidelines.
You will notice, the Democrats do not march in lock step with their Fearless Leader, the way the Republicans did with Bush. The Democrats live up to their name. A little democracy. A little debate. Let’s get this thing right.
If the Republicans had their way, WE’D DO NOTHING on national health care. We don’t want to do anything to disturb the perks those rich insurance company execs get. So the Republicans should just shut up. Those who do not care to do anything should just be quiet.
Obama promised change. Well look out. Health care in the US is gonna change, AND YOU CAN’T DO ANYTHING TO STOP IT. That is, unless you call up that idiot who’s giving away assault rifles when you buy a car.
July 19th, 2009 at 12:34 am
The problem here folks is this. The health care plan they have drafted sucks. Download it and read. Within the first 20 pages it says: All current plans will have to meet the rules of basic services. If for some reason you lose your current health care you must go on gov plan. NO OTHER INSURANCE PLAN WILL BE ALLOWED. There will be fines for individual and business. HOw do you suppose people getting from paycheck to paycheck will afford that?
Seniors get death counceling. SCARRY It sets up no less than 30 new agencys to stand between you and your DR including a board to decide what services you should get. But oh you can get suplimental insurance for things not covered in the STINKIN MANDATORY PLAN. It sounds very much like the same care our American Indians are currently recieving. NO THANK YOU!!! IM an Dem and I oppose this plan. If you had any brains you would stop listening to what they say and actually READ the crap they are trying to pass… THEY WON’T
July 19th, 2009 at 12:48 am
I like the part where Medi-Care is being replaced with “End-Of-Life Counseling.” So long grandma and grandpa! You worked hard your whole life only to be told you’re too old for Obamacare. Now take this pill and go towards the light.
This is right out of Logan’s Run.
July 19th, 2009 at 5:54 am
Well, limousine liberals and MSM “elites”, you had your fun… and probably almost broke your arm patting yourself on the back when you got the Dear Leader elected.
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Now you are getting the taxes you deserve, as Barack Obama is going to BLEED YOU DRY. And you can forget writing off your local taxes on your overpriced eastcoast/leftcoast home… you’ll be paying more on that, too.
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And here’s the kicker: you’ll be sending alot of that money to people in red states… to people whom you can’t stand.
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New Yorkers, Californians, residents of the Northeast and the D.C. Corridor, you elected Obama… so step-up and pay those absurd taxes without complaining. You wanted bigger government.. so now try THIS on for size.
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Those who live in places with more rational state tax structures like Texas and Nevada will welcome you when you want to move there… well not really, LOL.
Just be sure to head-out first-thing Monday morning and jump in your Prius with the “Change” bumper-sticker on the back and GET TO WORK…
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Chairman O needs your money!
July 19th, 2009 at 6:34 am
your the same poeple who used scare tactics to keep bushjr and cheyneysr in office for 8 years, when in fact you were just doing it for the power, the power to crash our economy apparently. no deal, I am not buying what you are saying. you immediately resort to the same old fear tactics.
July 19th, 2009 at 8:37 am
I’m not sure I see where anybody is using scare tactics. The tax increases necessary to adopt Cap and Trade and Obamacare are a reality. The CBO says so.
As for health care, everyone will be forced into the government program eventually. It’s unavoidable. The way the bill is written it penalizes almost anybody not in the government program in some way, shape, or form.
READ THE BILLS!!!
July 19th, 2009 at 9:21 am
1. You people don’t realize just how zero credibility anything repub hardcores say due to all the spin and misinformation of the Bushgeojr administration. Worse you follow the same bushian logic in presenting your arguements. The same bush handlers ruined Mccain’s campaign, mainly thru arrogant scare attacks that are no longer credible.
2. The health care hodge podge we have not is a mess and 70 percent of the American people want real change. You offer no solutions, just fear tactics and they are no longer credible. Its no different than when bush ran for his second term strongly implying that only he could keep us safe from al queda. I remember thinking is this guy sincere or would he use fear to get elected. duh.
3. We need to start somewhere on the health care problem and now that we are close to an imperfect compromise all you do is yell “fire in the theater” as a unified chorus orchestrated by your handlers as its just so focused. All your hitmen are chiming in at the same time. It smells of an organized campaign rather than sincere individuals seeing specific problems. You work for the the insurance companys and wallstreets interests over the common man again.
4. obama is no fool, and he warned us of the tactics you will use ruthlessly. He miscalculated just how strongly you would try and sabotage our nations health care and took his eye off the ball with his traveling in recent weeks. This is where he is going to have to work even harder to lead.
5. It seems to me if the plan is a disaster we can vote in a new one from what we have learned and over time work out the wrinkles.
6. If the insurance companies are competent it seems to me they can put foward competitive higher service level products at a competitive price. If a tooth brush costs 8 dollars in a hospital and a simple blood panel 800 dollars by the time its marked up from 40, there is a ton of money being bilked from people that can be put to better use.
7. Until we try, and move somekind of plan in place we are cooked. Of course it could be done better, and hopefully congress will provide sensible oversight to make it a work in progress. It may take two decades to get it right but we need to start now.
8. I believe obama when he says he doesn’t want to run car companys or health plans or run communist central. Way too many thankless headaches. We didn’t do a new plan with clinton so 12 years later I have seen my health care insurance and copays and out of pocket costs skyrocket even with quality private insurance. If your water pump goes on your car, your going to have to rip it out and replace it with a new one and hope you get the seals right. That’s adult life. And there are plenty of good mechanics down the road if the first one messes it up.
9. what you people are doing is being blatant obstructionists with no alternative plan and I doubt your sincerity on having any interest in really helping the American people get affordable less crazy health care.
July 19th, 2009 at 9:35 am
Wow Brian, whose drinking the Kool-Aid? Read the following article from Investors Business Daily. It debunks most everything you and the Obidiot are saying.
Reformers’ Claims Just Don’t Add Up
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, July 17, 2009 4:20 PM PT
Health Reform: Many extravagant claims have been made on behalf of the various health care “reforms” now emerging from Congress and the White House. But on closer inspection, virtually all prove to be false.
Yet even as many Americans start to have second thoughts about our government’s possible takeover of the health care system, Congress is rushing to make it happen.
On Friday, the House Ways and Means Committee approved a bill that would radically change our current system and expand coverage for the uninsured. The action came a day after the head of the Congressional Budget Office said none of the plans under review would slow health care spending. None of them.
Still, lawmakers and the White House press on, relying on GOP weakness in the House and a new veto-proof majority in the Senate. They’re also relying on a lack of awareness that claims made on behalf of national health care may be mostly false. Among them:
• America has a health care crisis.
No, we don’t. Forty-seven million people lack insurance. Of the remaining 85% of the population, or 258 million people, polls show high satisfaction with the current coverage. Indeed, a 2006 poll by ABC News, the Kaiser Family Foundation and USA Today found 89% of Americans were happy with their own health care.
As for the estimated 47 million not covered by health insurance, 20 million can afford to buy it, according to a study by former CBO Director June O’Neill. Most of the other 27 million are single and under 35, with as many as a third illegal aliens.
When it’s all whittled down, as few as 12 million are unable to buy insurance — less than 4% of a population of 305 million. For this we need to nationalize 17% of our nation’s $14 trillion economy and change the current care that 89% like?
• Health care reform will save money.
Few of the plans now coming out of Congress will save anything, says the CBO’s current chief, Douglas Elmendorf. In fact, he says, they’ll lead to substantially higher costs in the future — costs that will be “unsustainable.”
As it is, estimates for reforming health care range from $1 trillion to $3.6 trillion. Much will be spent on subsidies to make a so-called public option more attractive to consumers than private plans.
To pay for it, the president has suggested about $600 billion in new taxes, meaning that $500 billion to $2.1 trillion in new health care spending over the next decade will be unfunded. This could push up the nation’s already soaring deficit, expected to reach $10 trillion through 2019 without health care reform. Massive new tax hikes will probably be needed to close the gap.
• Only the rich will pay for reform.
The 5.4% surtax on millionaires the president is pushing gets all the attention, but everyone down to $280,000 in income will pay more. Doesn’t that still leave out the middle class and poor? Sorry. Workers who decline to take part will pay a tax of up to 2% of earnings. And small-businesses must pony up 8% of their payrolls.
The poor and middle class must pay in other ways, without knowing it. The biggest hit will be on small businesses, which, due to new payroll taxes, will be less likely to hire workers. Today’s 9.5% jobless rate may become a permanent feature of our economy — just as it is in Europe, where nationalized health care is common.
• Government-run health care produces better results.
The biggest potential lie of all. America has the best health care in the world, and most Americans know it. Yet we hear that many “go without care” while in nationalized systems it is “guaranteed.”
U.S. life expectancy in 2006 was 78.1 years, ranking behind 30 other countries. So if our health care is so good, why don’t we live as long as everyone else?
Three reasons. One, our homicide rate is two to three times higher than other countries. Two, because we drive so much, we have a higher fatality rate on our roads — 14.24 fatalities per 100,000 people vs. 6.19 in Germany, 7.4 in France and 9.25 in Canada. Three, Americans eat far more than those in other nations, contributing to higher levels of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.
These are diseases of wealth, not the fault of the health care system. A study by Robert Ohsfeldt of Texas A&M and John Schneider of the University of Iowa found that if you subtract our higher death rates from accidents and homicide, Americans actually live longer than people in other countries.
In countries with nationalized care, medical outcomes are often catastrophically worse. Take breast cancer. According to the Heritage Foundation, breast cancer mortality in Germany is 52% higher than in the U.S.; the U.K.’s rate is 88% higher. For prostate cancer, mortality is 604% higher in the U.K. and 457% higher in Norway. Colorectal cancer? Forty percent higher in the U.K.
But what about the health care paradise to our north? Americans have almost uniformly better outcomes and lower mortality rates than Canada, where breast cancer mortality is 9% higher, prostate cancer 184% higher and colon cancer 10% higher.
Then there are the waiting lists. With a population just under that of California, 830,000 Canadians are waiting to be admitted to a hospital or to get treatment. In England, the list is 1.8 million deep.
Universal health care, wrote Sally Pipes, president of the Pacific Research Institute in her excellent book, “Top Ten Myths Of American Health Care,” will inevitably result in “higher taxes, forced premium payments, one-size-fits-all policies, long waiting lists, rationed care and limited access to cutting-edge medicine.”
Before you sign up, you might want to check with people in countries that have the kind of system the White House and Congress have in mind. Recent polls show that more than 70% of Germans, Australians, Britons, Canadians and New Zealanders think their systems need “complete rebuilding” or “fundamental change.”
• The poor lack care.
Many may lack insurance, but that doesn’t mean they lack care. The law says anyone who walks into a hospital emergency room must be treated. America has 37 million people in poverty, but Medicaid covers 55 million — at a cost of $350 billion a year.
Moreover, as many as 11 million of the uninsured qualify for programs for the indigent, including Medicaid and SCHIP. But for some reason, they don’t sign up. Are they likely to sign up for the “public option” when it’s made available?
July 19th, 2009 at 10:09 am
you can be as numb and stingy and stubborn as you want but here are some facts that a conservative business newspaper with a very thin journalist pool won’t tell you.
1. America has a health care crises and its getting worse
2. 40 million Americans without health care coverage are our people, and clog up the system for emergent care, which you pay for through higher medical bills, higher insurance, and longer hospital waits. So you are being indirectly taxed already in a most arcane and inefficent and at times fraudulant way in a cost plus universe.
3. We have more doctors per capita than these other countries and we can provide a better program. There is no law that says we have to do it exactly as the UK or Canada. Doctors and pharmaceutical companys will still make a lot of money. Regardless, if we do nothing even more toxic changes are coming down the pike than we are dealing with now. The rate of deterioration is increasing and medicaid is underfunded and going broke in many states. Its not going away.
3. The private medical and pharmaceutical sectors will continue to be the primary providers in the US, and will finally be pressured to clean up their act. Just look at all the charges on your next EOB from your insurer for a simple office visit and you will have to admit there is a big “creative accounting” problem in the private sector.
4. One reason we need change is to reduce all the systemic “creative accounting” in every aspect of medical care and identify the real costs of what we are doing. Any health care balance sheet right now is basically a fiction, a guesstamate, and ? we are so dysfunctional.
5. Taxes are going up, thats a fact of our era. Doing nothing won’t stop it anymore than doing something. Health care costs are going to go up faster though.
6. while I have read about press reports about some poeple’s disatisfaction with aspects of Canadian health care, people I have talked to in person always tell me they are satisfied with it. The stories of waits are specific to certain specialties and no, not everyone needs an mri day one for a problem, like they get here. It sounds like if canada just trained more doctors and had more specialty training or came here to train they would be fine. So know your source. In college we had a good infirmary that had access to specialists and I was very satisfied with the service and timeliness so why can’t we do that with family medicine? I wonder who the editors and their advertisers are that push all these canadian and uk stories. I checked and can see the UK has a very active recruitment program overseas and the common denominator is get more well trained doctors on board if you want to improve things.
7. uh, medicaid is going broke fast, we will have to deal with it.
8. There is field called public health and we have some of the bare bones already in place, and we could ramp that up to help organize community care, educate the public, run clinics, evaluate programs. Rather than pay 8 dollars for hospital toothbrushes and 800 dollars for 40 dollar blood tests we could invest in our health care infrastructure instead and serve many more people.
9. Its actually doable. Its going to cost, but its going to cost if we don’t do it anyways and a lot more people are going to suffer. These are your fellow citizens of your own country and they deserve better. We can get them an access to a doctor if we just care enough.
10. we are probably squandering %40 percent of our health care dollars with what we have now. So you are advocating we do nothing and continue squandering money and get noting accomplished.
Sorry, but I think we need to put our backs to this wheel and have some confidence we can fix this.
July 19th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
It is a shame that some Americans are so gullible, to the outlandish propaganda and lies spat in the newspapers, television and radio about Obama’s health care agenda. They have demonized the British, Canadian and other worthy plans. Hidden under a sub-rosa undercover, these radical entities are determined to keep the special interest organizations in absolute power. Comprising of the money-draining profitable insurance companies and their rich stockholders. They don’t want any changes to the broken system of medical care, because it will hurt the status quo. I was born in England, in the county of Sussex and until the inception of the European Union and the European Parliament dictating to Britain. That they must accept millions of foreign workers, the nations medical system was exemplary. I never had to wonder if I would have to file bankruptcy, to pay my medical bills, or listen to the incessant ring of debt collectors on the phone.
On several occasions I ended up in the cottage hospital and their was never a cost applied to it, never a ream of paperwork. No doctor, no hospital or specialist ask me for my Social Security number, drivers license or if I was covered by a predatory for-profit insurer. Today the British Isles is being submerged under a barrage of legal and illegal immigrants, who have never paid into the system, have caused some rationing. Prior to the importation of foreign labor my trips to doctor, to hospital, the eye or a dentist was paid from my taxation. Unless we pass a national health care agenda, Americans will never know what it’s like to breeze through their lives, without worrying about paying for health care? Tell your Senators and Congressman you want an alternative to the–GET RICH– insurance companies, before a Universal health care is killed. 202-224-312 REMEMBER THE INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS DON’T WANT THEIR PIECE OF THE $$$TRILLION$$$ DOLLAR PIE DISTURBED. EVEN SOME POLITICIANS HAVE THEIR DIRTY FINGERS IN THE PIE?
AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE PRIVATE HEALTH CARE, A GOVERNMENT SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM WILL ASSIST IN REVITALIZING THE WILTING US ECONOMY.
July 19th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Brian:
I have a couple of quick statements on the crap your saying.
1. Your saying we need government to fix healthcare. So your saying the same government who can’t get the post office right can run healthcare. Now I love this country, but our government stinks. Yet all government stinks I mean if you can name one successful big government I’ll give you all the money in my pocket. I mean the Fed tried to get involve in drugs with the war on drugs we failed at that, we got involved in education and we screwed that up, we blew Social Security, and heat are a few other things the Fed destroyed the dollar, labor,energy, and by destroying our own rights. Mainly because the Feds job should be to defend our country. And than nobody would complain about the Fed, because they would do one thing and they would get it right.
2. Now here’s a very simple fact for you. In England 40% of people live from prostate cancer for 5 years and here in the US 80% of people live 5 years. So obama wants us to spend trillions over the decade and be taxed heavily for an inferior system. Which will let people die and wait months for a surgery they could get hear in a couple of weeks.
3. Also these poles your talking are wrong. 70% of people want healthcare reform they don’t want the crap obama is pushing for.
Now if we go back to a Gold Standard prices of healthcare would go down, because we get rid of inflation.
July 19th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Government gave us the interstate hiway system and our hydroelectric grid which work just fine last I looked as long as we keep the routine mainenance. They gave us our military, our deep sea navy, our air force, our army and marines. Nasa too which landed on the moon though its fraying at the edges in recent years. The post office has never lost any of my mail as far as I know. Though I like ups for some things. I have even seen some city projects take off and do a good job as long as the money was there. I think we have learned enough that with the right people in charge programs can be be run well. You’r talking like someone out of the lyndon johnson great society welfare era and those days are over.
July 19th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I feel sorry for Brian. He sounds like someone who is in a position of having someone else already paying his way for health ins. The pure and simple fact that small business and the middle class will be the folks paying the tab doesn’t mean anything to this guy. Maybe I can stop paying on my homeowners ins next year and enroll in the government program so my friends and neighbors can pay the way.And do not forget that Obama and Congress will have nothing to do with this program. They have the luxury of opting out. How nice is that?
July 19th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
This health-care boondoggle is a dead duck. I love watching Obama fail, and hope he continues to fail even more spectacularly in the future.
July 19th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Brians not all there, and a liar.
You’re all wasting your time.
Its like trying to teach a pig to sing.
You get nowhere, if you do at all it sounds like sh*t and it pi$$es off the pig.
Watch. I’ll make some basically releveant east to understand irrefutable counters and he’ll come back with a post that goes into everything but and looks like someone barfed a bowl of alphabet soup all over your monitor with no break or paragraphs(its a gift he tells me).
BRIAN;
“Government gave us the interstate hiway system and our hydroelectric grid which work just fine last I looked as long as we keep the routine mainenance.”
Well, the routine maintenence is not there which is why its falling apart and I guess so because right now isnt Obama saying we need to dump a sh*tload of money into it / Are bridges not collapsing and traffic a f*ckin nightmare no matter where you live ?
“They gave us our military, our deep sea navy, our air force, our army and marines.”
They do not.
Its a volunteer force that is managed from whithin. It workd because its a dictative authoritarian system, as it should be.
You cant do that with civilians Brian.
“Nasa too which landed on the moon though its fraying at the edges in recent years.”
You said it, not me.
“The post office has never lost any of my mail as far as I know.”
Yeah well, theres not much to be said for being homeless and having a PO box full of porn.
” Though I like ups for some things.”
Yeah, the boxes are not long enough for those times when you get lonely amd are looking for something to go up.
“I have even seen some city projects take off and do a good job as long as the money was there.”
Right “as long as the money is there”?
In Hawaii our roads are falling apart but we can spend 1 million bucks for a fountain with a sign in front of it made out of sculpted moss rocks with lanscaping saying “Nuuanu” to let you know that you’re driving thru part of the island that has the crappiest roads called “Nuuanu.
“I think we have learned enough that with the right people in charge programs can be be run well.”
As Charles asked,… name one !!!!
“You’r talking like someone out of the lyndon johnson great society welfare era and those days are over.”
Name anything the government ran then that worked.
Nam ? nope.
Welfare ? nope.
Civil rights ? nope.
“THE GREAT SOCIETY”????
ROTFLMFAO
Spacey bullsh*t coming in 1… 2… 3…
July 19th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
well I am glad you brought up the state of Hawaii’s undeveloped road problem, because I have been noticing when I watch my Hawaii 5-0 the roads look really primative during its filming. See I almost went to the U of Hawaii, but the cost of a plane ticket was the deal breaker. And I would be willling to bet if you donned a lizard car you could drive across the US on its interstate Hiway system slurpy, corn dog, and blizzard and all with great ease. The civil rights movement did help a lot of people who wanted to try to get to, so now they are lawyers and presidents too. I really don’t begrudge it and hope more schools have remedial writing and literatcy programs to bring up those that want to finally focus as they grow up. And again I should remind you as you keep forgetting, I do not lie. In fact I am ten tims more objective than you realize. Also I notice you and another have started throwing around the “crap” word as your so like worn wire thin. I believe sarcasm and anger are self feeding i.e. self reinforcing coping behaviors when you come to the table with an empty salad bowel. It takes time to grow, nurture, and harvest lettuce so I suggest you all get cracking, as your wit has gone flat in direct proportion to your cantankerousness and sillitude.
July 19th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
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July 20th, 2009 at 5:20 am
Brian:
You still fail to answer my very simple question. Name one big government with high taxes and lack of rights that have worked.
July 20th, 2009 at 6:42 am
lack of rights? that makes no sense. But the American University System is the envy of the world, or try say WIC. Or try the interstate highway system. Or try the UN in New York, or the cdc, or nih, or youth conservation core, they all worked very well. Medicaid and Medicare. Social Security. All tremendous. The USN. the USAF. Nasa. come one, stop being so stingy and smallish. so stop repeating yourself about your prejudices.
July 20th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Brian:
Your still not naming one successful big government that was powerful, had a good economy, and had little complaints by the people. And I also want to give you my top 10 big government screw ups. And remember some of these ideas started out good and became crapy. Also all of these ideas raised taxes and added to our deficits.
10. The Highway system in America is good, but I’m still putting it on my list for a few reasons. Number one it should t cost us billions of dollars in taxes every year, because we have poorly done contracts. Now there are highways where I live that they say the job will be done in a year and they’ve be in construction for about 3 years now. And most off these projects go way over budget. Overall there aren’t many problems here though are bridges are breaking.
9. Transportation is a problem simple, because we over regulate. It cost us thousands of dollars that we don’t even realize were paying on cars to meet up with the governments stupid regulations on cars. I mean look at the facts Global Warming is a piece on non seance created to give Al Gore a pay check. Now this issue should be left to the states control and your control on which car you by. Also if we didn’t have such high standards on factories they wouldn’t leave the US.
8. Drugs are one problem created by the Fed. Mainly because when we made drugs illegal and started this war of drugs. Drugs became a bigger problem than ever. With the money we spend on the DEA we could give people job so they wouldn’t have to use drugs.
7. The Post Office and this is just humor, because if we can’t get this right what makes us think we can get healthcare right. I mean we have to raise stamp prices, lay off employees, and now we want to shut down for more days. So overall we have so many problems with such a simple thing it’s just proof that we’ll fail at healthcare.
6. Labor I’ll give you one example of where we failed at this. The bankruptcy of GM and other factories. Also every time we raise the minimum wage we have an increase in unemployment, because employers say we can’t afford it. So we’ll have to let one employee go to pay for there wages. Also unions should stay private with no government intervention.
5. Education is currently a disaster in America. Why because the Fed tells schools what to do. Before the Department of Education came along schools taught students how to get factory jobs. Now they would rather teach a fourth grader chinese. Also we have problems with colleges, because the Fed literally tells schools they have to except students of this race even though they are not as smart. And now under obama he says I want every American to go to college. Now some people are just stupid and lazy and don’t deserve to go to college.
4. Trade because I think we make it difficult for factories to work here. That’s why I support the Fair Tax to save us from losing factory jobs. Now obama loves unions right how about this all of the factories come together and say if you don’t give us a tax cut or fair tax or we’ll go to china.
3. Medicine in America is completely faulted also. Mainly because were running out of money to pay for medicaid. And we should of never got involved with this. Let the doctors and patients decide how there going to afford it.
2. Social Security is a failure simple, because if we don’t fix it we’ll be bankrupt in 30 years. Now my replacement works, because we put the money into Nuclear power. And the people get the revenues. This is fair, won’t be affected by inflation, and will help solve our energy problems.
1. Energy why because everything we do here fails. We can’t drill, use Nuclear, and we have this crapy carbon emissions tax. Now there are to many problem to name here so I’m going to stop.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
I live in Canada and can tell you that 90 plus percent of the population supports universal health care. Its far from perfect, and everyone has an opinion on how to make things better.
Here’s my personal experience.
Both uncles have received bypass surgeries this year 1 a triple bypass and the other a double at no cost to them. My aunt and grandmother are having cataract surgery, grandmother already done.
I broke my wrist and developed RSD 1 ½ years ago, which requires me to have physiotherapy and drugs, I’m seeing one of the top specialists in the field. Ok to be fair there was a waiting period around 1 year (Bs they always say that it’s a funding thing) I did wait around 6 months but that was because I wanted the top person in the country to look at me, not because I was being ignored or not geting any treatment.
The only cost to me is the medication, it used to be covered under my private plan that ran out.
The drugs are very expensive but are still around a third the price south of the border.
Overall I really cant complain too much, sure it can be better but the answer is not south of the border but places in Europe, that do things better and cheaper. I feel the real reason the drugs are so much cheaper is because the government buys in bulk, and when they get screwed by the drug companies government has options like buying them abroad or making them their self .There were times they were forced to do that, American HMOs don’t have these options.
Peter
September 9th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Obamas going down tonight.
No one wants this plan no matter how he says its and end to a means or tries to neander it in.
Yet like a spoiled baby hes going to try one more act of sublime defiance and push the issue veiled in many things. It’ll fix the economy, the deficit, the debt when everyone knows the opposite, the people dont care about it as much as security or the economy