Healthcare Deform

Greetings comrades! Are you readers rejoicing, as I, the fact that we are now citizens of a new socialist republic? No longer must we labor and concern ourselves with providing for our own security, health, or welfare. We may now eat our fill of Big Mac's and pizzas, and the filthy rich will foot the bill to solve all our medical ills. May our great Comrade Obama have a memorial placed in Washington where we grateful masses may reflect on his triumphant reversal of over 230 years of American personal liberties. Do you agree?

President Abraham Lincoln once stated that if this country ever came undone, it would not be from without, but would be from within. My friends, that is what transpired in Congress over these past few weeks, our beloved country has been undone. Three generations have now fought and died to preserve our freedoms, and the freedoms of others, from socialism and communism. We won the Cold War abroad, only to sold out by aging hippies, bra burners, and new age liberals here at home. Yes, these are our current leaders in Washington who, like the old Merle Haggard song, "love our milk and honey, but preach about some better way of living". Now look, we can all agree that something had to be done to curb rising healthcare and insurance costs. But we screamed, I repeat, SCREAMED at the top of our lungs that this is NOT what we wanted. But yet, once again, the American majority went unheard and utterly ignored. We asked for limits on the malpractice suits that increase our insurance costs, the liberal courts struck them down. We asked for fewer government regulations and interference in healthcare, we received a new government bureaucracy. We asked to let competition between private insurance, healthcare providers, and drug companies drive down costs. Instead we get a government option that will put private companies out of business, drive up costs, and deliver poor services and results. We have enjoyed freedom of choice in planning our healthcare options as families and small-business, and now we'll be penalized and fined if we don't buy into a government run option. I know this plays like a broken record, but name one thing the federal government runs efficiently today.

The experts, if you can call them that, say Obamacare will only cost a mere $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. Yeah right, since when has our federal government been good at budget predictions? As the screws tighten on families and small businesses, and as our government taxes the heck out of private insurers who compete with them, the number of uninsured will rise and be forced into the government plan. 30 million uninsured Americans will balloon to 60,70,80 million or more, and the costs will skyrocket to $500 billion a year. My generation suddenly has the prospect of not only having an insolvent Social Security program when we retire, but also a healthcare program that will tax us to death and be run like a VA. Retiring in the Caribbean is suddenly looking so much better for my family.

But perhaps the liberal plan is to let this pay for itself through attrition. How can it do that? It's simple adding and subtracting. Americans who work and pay income and social security taxes are between the ages of 18-65, right? You "add" more money from this group through new taxes on just about everything from their personal income, their employers income, heck even the hot dogs at a Braves game may have a new "fat" tax added. But after the age of 65 two things happen. First is the obvious fact that these Americans tend to retire and draw Social Security benefits, and the second is that their health tends to fail at a much quicker rate than younger age groups. It's the age where Americans cease to be "contributors" to the federal government and quickly become "users" of federal benefits. Therefore you "subtract" from this group by limiting the health care and services these seniors receive. Older Americans will be denied operations and treatments that would keep them with us, the life expectancy for this group falls, and the government stays in the black. Fewer people live long enough to draw social security and medical benefits they paid a lifetime for. Nice plan for all, except our senior citizens.

Then there are the comparisons between ourselves and Europe, "If they can do it, why can't we?" Here is why. The nations of Europe can afford socialism solely because we have protected their butts for 60 years with our armed forces. They've been creating a costly cradle to grave society because they spend but a tiny fraction of their budgets on defense, and we even help pay for what little they do spend. They know that you can't have both guns and butter, and so they chose the butter and let Uncle Sam provide the guns. You would think that we learned this little lesson in the 60's when President Johnson launched Medicare and other sweeping welfare programs, while trying to fight a war in Vietnam. The economy tanked, our budget ballooned, and only by dipping into Social Security was it able to balance out. Now we're fighting two wars, throwing money away on "stimulus" programs, and now this?

Now for the sweet secret to this madness. Most of these changes won't take effect until 2014, with the first major tax increases to be delivered only in 2013. Why do you suppose that is? It's to keep the most drastic portions of this legislation, those regarding YOUR care and how to fund this abomination from taking effect until our President, and his politburo, are safely re-elected in 2012. You will see little change until after these elections, and then WHAM! As the hangover from another inauguration wears off, your employer, your insurance, and your wallet are going to be hit by federal pickpockets, on a scale never seen before. They are hoping that your world will go on as it is now, and you will skip happily to the polls thinking that conservatives had healthcare reform pegged all wrong. Don't be played for a fool people. Hold fast against this so-called reform, and let your government officials know where YOU stand on the issue.