Last week's news was not to worry--the Senate was going to delete that language in the House health care bill THAT DID NOT EXIST (if you listened to Obama and most of the mainstream media, except for traitors like the Washington Post reporter who actually read the stuff and pronounced it disturbing stuff). You know. All of that embarrassing language about "end of life" care and "counseling".
You did not, of course, see the mainstream media proclaim this as a victory fro Sarah Palin--virtually the only Republican politician brave enough to stand up the the mainstream media and actually say that the House bill raised the spectre of "death panels'. However, it was a victory for her, and an acknowledgement of how disturbing it was that there was language like the "ned of life" absurdities in the House bill, WHEN THERE DID NOT HAVE TO BE. The dirty little secret is that there could be "death panels" without any such language at all, since the whole thrust of this health care "reform" is to transfer life and death decisions about health insurance and health care to Federal bureaucrats. See my two sentence version of the health care "bill" (whichever one is the final bill) in yesterday's entry. If health care "reform" turns decisions on insurance coverage and appropriate care over to Federal bureaucrats (what other purpose does it have?), then Federal bureaucrats are going to be making those decisions based on regulations that will come into existence AFTER authority is given in some vague health care bill (if one passes). Nevertheless, Sarah Palin should get an apology from the mainstream media for ridiculing her concern over this language--concern echoed by those "key" Senators who rejected the House language as vague and disturbing to people. But Sarah Palin will never get an apology from the mainstream media, because they are HYPOCRITES.
This illustrates why I do not concentrate on single provisions in any "health care bill". Every single health care bill being prepared by Democrats is designed to give power to a Federal agency, or agencies, or "quasi-government organisation", to regulate health care, and health care insurance, in this country. How can you even promise to "contain costs", and "reform" the system, unless you are proposing to have the government impose such regulations? You can't. Thus, the mere deletion of language from the bill is no assurance at all that similar concepts will not appear in the REGULATIONS instituted to implement any bill that's is passed. Again, read my two sentence version of any health care bill, presented in yesterday's entry, which explains that the entire purpose of any bill is to turn health care policy over to Federal bureaucrats to control by REGULATION. That is why it was so stupid to put the vague language referring to "end of life" in the House bill. Such revealing stupidity can only scare you to death, as you realize these same kind of people fully intend to control health care, and health insuance, in this country BY REGULATION.
Then came yesterday's news, originating over the weekend, about the Obama Administration supposedly "abandoning" the "public option". This was, of course, an attempt to signal to REPUBLICANS in the Senate that some sort of "compromise", like happened on the terrible "Medicare Drug Benefit Program" pushed into law by President Bush, would be acceptable. Again, the message was "not to worry"--we will give "cover" to Republicans, and conservative Democrats. Well. It won't work for a Republican. This blog will CRUCIFY each and every Republican who votes for a terrible "compromise" version of this bill--which will have the same result as the "compromise version of that bill giving athority to the Secretary of the Treasury to hand out $700 billion dollars AT HIS DISCRETION. Both Democrats and Republicans assured us there was no "blank check". THEY LIED (or are so stupid, it is worse than lying). Now such Republicans may not worry about ME, but there are lots of people who think like me. I guarantee their political career will not survive such a "compromise" vote, in terms of any influence int the Republican Party or with conservatives. I digress (not really).
The point is that the whole point of health care "reform" is government CONTROL. Any bill passed by the Democrats who control Congress has that goal, because that is the whole purpose of the bill. We know that President Obama favors direct government health care, as a concept, BECAUSE HE HAS SAID SO IN THE PAST. The fact that pathological liar Obama wants everyone to belive only what he says TODAY, and forget the past, is merely proof he is a pathological liar. Thus, if Obama really is willing to give up the "public option" (government insurance "competing" with private insurance on the way to only government insurance), then it is because President Obama thinks that the goal of government CONTROL can be achieved another way. Thus, we have the idea of "co-ops", along with giving Federal bureaucrats complete control over the insurance industiy (and ultimately the health care industry). In other words, any "private" insurance will be drafted for you by, and administered--including life and death decisions--under regulations propounded by, FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS.
The ultimate question here is who will make decisions concerning your health care, and health care insurance? Will it be multiple insurance companies, acting under multiple state laws, with our own doctor having a big say? Or will it be FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS making those decisions? Health care "reform" has no meaning unless it puts such decisions in the hands of Federal bureaucrats.
It is bad enough to have so many health care decisions being made lby insurance company bureaucrats. Is there something worse than that? Yes, there is. Insurance companies can be checked. They can be sued. They are state regulated. There is no check on Federal bureaucrats, and on the evil concept of "central planning" of a few people determining envery health care decision concerning YOUR LIFE.
"End of life" language or no "end of life" language.
"public option" or no "public option". In the end it does not matter much, if the Federal bureaucrats are given CONTROL--directly or through quasi-government entities like co-ops (which can be established without Congress, if CONTROL were not the goal--control by the Federal Government). Since the whole concept of "reform" implies CONTROL, and since we know where Obama and the Democrats are coming from, you can be assured that CONTROL is the goal of any final Federal bill.
Now we are up to Obama's disgraceful appearance before veterans yesterday. Again, as he has done with everyone, President Obama--pathological liar that he is--promised that the health care of veterans will not be "affected" by Obama's health care plan. How can Obama say that. OBAMA HAS NO HEALTH CARE PLAN, OTHER THAN HIS ARROGANT, EMPTY ASSERTIONS. Obama has not endorsed the House bill. Obama can't possibly tell you what will be "affected" by a final health care bill and what won't. In fact, as I have stated, even if a bill existed, Obama could not be making these blanket assertions--except for the fact that he is a pathological liar. Ultimately, Federal bureaucrats writing Federal REGULATIONS are going to determine how any Federal health care "plan" works. Even if you trust Obama (hard to do with a pathological liar), Obama will not be around forever. Whatever pwoer we give to FEDERAL BUREAUCRATS over health care policy will likely last forever--well beyond Obama. To assert that such pwoer will consistently be used wisely, and for the public good, is to ignore history and theory.
It cannot help to be a disaster to turn control over health insurance/health care decisions over to the central planning of Federal bureaucrats. That is why the individual provisions of the final health care bill do not matter (which we will likely not even know, as will not the people voting on them, because the final bill will likely be prepared at the last minute). We know that the goal of this legislation is Federal CONTROL, and that should be enough for you to condemn it. Obama's mere assertions as to what his non-existent "plan" will and will not do are absurd, because he really has no way of knowing. None of us do--other than it will cost too much and accomplish too little, with too great a cost in freedom.
What is amazing is that I believe that the public FIGHTING against this Federal CONTROL actually "get it". The same cannot be said of almost ANY of the politicians, including the SILENT Republicans out there proving nothing other than that they are COWARDS.
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