Increasingly, the new administration is taking away the rights of the individual and giving them to the folks in Washington. Obama promised a change from the same old Washington politics, but instead he is creating a polarized society. I believe the American people are smart enough to choose for themselves, not have a nanny state making all the choices for them. Everyone realizes that the health care industry is broken. Insurance costs too much and so does medicines. Nobody seriously wants people to go without health care, the battle is between how and who you get it from.
So what solutions do politicians like Barack Obama, Senator Max Baucus, Tom Daschle, and groups like the AARP, Families USA, big insurance and big business propose? They want to mandate that everyone buy the same expensive insurance that many can’t afford (with a tax if you don’t buy) – a plan that is failing in Massachusetts. They would create a “Health Care Fed” that would create cookbook medicine and rationing protocols and force your doctor to follow them under the threat of lower pay or a phony report card score that has nothing to do with quality and has everything to do with how much third-party money was being “wasted” on actual patient care. This would be enforced through a mandate to enter your health data into a computer that would be forward to the government where it would be subject to loss or accidental exposure of private health information. They would expand the Medicare program, which is scheduled to bankrupt its own trust fund next decade, to people who are 55 years old. They would put more children in government health programs even though such a plan failed in Hawaii after only 7 months — leaving many children previously insured privately without coverage!
Why are we debating over a system that has proven not to work? Would you buy a microwave oven that has been proven to blow up in your face only after a few months? Better yet, would you spend $10,000 a year for that defective microwave? Of course not. Why then, aren’t we encouraging competition in the private sector of health care? Doctors and clinics should be competing for your services as a patient. The health care plan should be what is right for you and your family. Some families are extremely healthy and rarely have to see a doctor, why should they be forced to pay for services they do not need? Other families have histories of health problems and need more extensive coverage, why aren’t we creating a free market so these people can buy cheaper coverage?
You are not stupid America. This country was built by the hands and minds of you and your ancestors. You know the best what it is that you need. Not the government and not Obama.
