Lawmakers clash over cost of health care overhaul (Let the games begin)

Will Malven
6/18/2009

Well, the congressional socialists are preparing to destroy our medical care system with "new" proposals designed to supplant our, very successful, private system of individual responsibility with a government run one-size-fits-all system similar to the demonstrably inferior systems one can find in Europe, Canada, and much of the "industrialized world."

As they begin this exercise in socialized medicine, one refrain continues to be repeated endlessly, the lie-first uttered by President Obama during his 2008 campaign-that you can keep the coverage you have if you are happy with it, or you can opt in to a government run system if you prefer. I doubt there is a more sinister or cynical claim any politician has ever attempted to foist off on the American people.

Any government funded, let's call it what it really is-tax-payer funded-system, offered by these clowns will inevitably lead to the demise of all private healthcare plans; rendering them unaffordable...except for the very wealthy. A government run system will have an unfair advantage over private plans since-until tax-payers revolt-the available funds will be unlimited.

MyWay has the low-down on these hearings:

Lawmakers clash over cost of health care overhaul

Jun 17, 5:21 PM (ET)
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hoping to make history, the Senate set off on its major overhaul of the nation's health care system Wednesday, but its first steps were quickly overtaken by fresh cost concerns and partisan anger. An ambitious timetable that called for completing committee action in early summer seemed in danger of slipping away.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee began work on a bill encompassing President Barack Obama's top legislative priority. It marked the first time since President Bill Clinton's ill-starred attempt in the early 1990s that Congress was tackling such a broad overhaul.

Let's hope that this new proposal, in whatever form it ends up, enjoys the same success as the ill-fated efforts broadly labeled "Hillary-Care" enjoyed in the 90's.

Any proposal that excludes much needed "tort reform" to lower the onerous burden placed on doctors in the form of malpractice insurance and protects the consumer from having to pay for a battery of tests made necessary by the defensive medicine doctors have been forced to practice because of frivolous law-suits, is destined to failure...I hope.

One reason healthcare costs have sky-rocketed over the years is the easy access to tax-payer money that Medicare and Medicaid gave doctors and hospitals. If the patient doesn't have to pay for the tests, then the kind of "defensive medicine" we have seen being practiced becomes painless for both the patient and the care-giver. This has one inevitable result...more and more money being spent by more and more doctors prescribing more and more tests.

Government isn't the answer for the problems in our healthcare system, it is the cause of them.

Ask your members of Congress if everyone is going to get the same gold-plated medical coverage that Congress members enjoy...after all that was the promise being made during the last political campaign...the answer will be a resounding "No." All of those parasites in Washington know that such a plan would be far too expensive were they to offer it to all Americans.

Second, ask those same members of Congress if they will be forced to enter the same plan they are going to offer the American citizens...that answer will also be a resounding "No!" Those prima donnas believe themselves to be special...better than the average citizen...and thus entitled to privileged healthcare.

Lastly, always remember that any such government run system will inevitably lead to rationing of healthcare. It has been the same in all of the nations which have such a system and it always the elderly who suffer the most because of that. After all it was Democrat Richard Lamm, former three term governor of Colorado who said:

"We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life."

Thank you Dr. Mengele.

One of the greatest blessings of our current private system of healthcare is that we have the right to expect to be able to sustain our lives by any and all means if we so choose and can afford to do so. In state run systems in which rationing is a daily fact of life, it is almost always the old and infirm who are first to be told "Go home and die."

No thank-you Liberals, I prefer to make life or death choices for myself, not have them made for me by some bureaucrat in Washington D.C.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!!

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