Obama’s Forced Healthcare

This country was founded on freedom. Freedom of speech, freedom of religion. Freedom to do pretty much whatever we want. With our government becoming more socialistic, we are losing freedoms every day. The loss of freedoms has been gradual over many years. You have to pay taxes. You have to have car insurance. You have to submit to the harassment of the TSA at the airport. The latest in the long line of rights lost will be the requirement to purchase health care.

Under the Senate’s new proposal, those that refuse to sign up for health insurance will be fined $1000.  What happened to personal responsibility?  What happened to freedom of choice?  If someone doesn’t want health insurance, they should be able to take care of themselves.  They should accept any consequences of their actions.  Instead, we have the government, once again, playing nanny to the public.  Here is a quote from the article.

In a revamped health care system envisioned by senators, people would be required to carry health insurance just like motorists must get auto coverage now. The government would provide subsidies for the poor and many middle-class families, but those who still refuse to sign up would face fines of more than $1,000.

The details were unveiled Thursday in a health care overhaul bill supported by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.

What if I want to self-insure?  Do people like Warren Buffet really need to have health insurance?  They can pay for it themselves.  It should be an individual choice.  With the push for required health care, the government might as well require other things.  Why don’t they require that congress spend within it’s mean?  That is the kind of legislation we need.  Legislation that promotes responsibility rather than enslavement to the state.

Obama challenged on Healthcare

During Obama’s 75 minutes of primetime coverage, he was questioned by some doctors regarding a scenario on what he would do if his family became sick.  Would Obama make a pledge to use his own plan and go with the public option?  His response:

“…if it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.

In otherwords, no.  He wouldn’t use his own plan.  Like everyone else, he wants the very best.  That means use of private insurers.  With a government regulated health plan, they’re going to cut cost by limiting what treatment can be done.

The GOP Senators also have a concern.

“At a time when major government programs like Medicare and Medicaid are already on a path to fiscal insolvency, creating a brand new government program will not only worsen our long-term financial outlook but also negatively impact American families who enjoy the private coverage of their choice,” the senators wrote.

“The end result would be a federal government takeover of our health care system, taking decisions out of the hands of doctors and patients and placing them in the hands of a Washington bureaucracy.”

Obama responds by saying that they’re wrong.  Obama has no executive experience.  He has no business experience.  How can he say they are wrong?  Obama claims that the public option would have lower administrative costs.  That’s a bunch of horse pucky.  Since when has government ever had lower costs?  It never has.  Take Congress as an example.  Congress can’t even live within it’s means. Now Obama is promising that a public run health care system will cost us less?

Obama continues on to say that:

he didn’t understand those advocates of the free market who constantly say the private sector can do things better and are yet worried about this plan.

He also said:

that the private sector might not necessarily be better, point out that users of Medicare and Veterans Administration hospitals constantly rate “pretty high satisfaction.”

The reason that he doesn’t understand is because he is dumb.  He apparently doesn’t remember the VA hospital fiasco a couple years back.  The only reason Medicare and the VA have “pretty high satisfaction” is because they have unlimited money through tax dollars.  If the public plan is to compete and ofter the same great service, we will spend more than the promised “low administrative costs.”

And the only reason the administrative costs “might” be lower is because the costs is subsidized by the government.  Since the private sector uses the free market, that is how much the services are worth.  When government offers something for less, they have to subsidize it.  It ends up costing more.  How ever much we “save” on administrative costs are collected through taxes.