BIT O BACON: HEALTH CARE REFORM.

BIT O BACON: 3/19/10 HEALTH CARE REFORM.

Today I was watching the mass coverage of the healthcare vote and pretty much tired of it all. What happened today really reinforces why I hate Washington and the political system that has developed their. When the majority of this country didn’t want government in our healthcare we had congress simply push it in. I wonder if the representatives who voted for this bill really gave two shots about what the overall outcome of this bill will be. The fact that the democratic leadership in both the house and senate had to bribe members to get votes simply reinforces the fact that it wasn’t a good bill to start with. I didn’t buy into the argument of the getting back at the “big bad insurance company’s”. The Democratic Party demonizes those who chose not to support their ideas anyway. I take a real world look at the issues, the real cost of the bill not simply what the CBO says. To answer those who live their political life by the CBO they’re a tool to gauge the cost of bills, so if a bill is written in a particular manor they score its costs in that manor. In the end it’s in how you write the bill to fit your believed cost. The question I have to ask is what the real world costs are going to be. Back when Medicare was first passed the program was going to cost us only ten billion dollars for 2009, the real cost was sixty billion. And if you take a look at the unfunded liability for Medicare its thirty seven trillion dollars, now tell me with a straight face this healthcare reform bill will only cost us nine hundred and forty billion dollars with 1.38 trillion in deficit reduction.

You see those in Washington don’t seem to look at those who have gone threw this process already. For example the healthcare policies of Massachusetts, in which many in the white house credit as the pilot program to this healthcare reform. If you look closely at what they have done and massive costs they have incurred and now we have this nationally. As for the costs of the plan in Massachusetts they were given a half a billion in federal tax dollars to help pay for the massive debt of their state ran healthcare program and recently it was announced they were short another three hundred and thirty million dollars now what do we do when we have the same results on the national level. Who will be there to bail out our national healthcare program? And if you read the bill you would find out that you have more than just healthcare mixed in you have other issues added in the name of healthcare issues such as economic justice, the hostile business agenda, social reform, and the redistributions of wealth. The first example I bring up is the new program that will go into people’s homes and tell people how to raise their children. First of all that’s an immense invasions of your family’s personal privacy, if you as a parent would like advice on raising your children than go out and find it, it’s not the governments job to assume. In addition it raises many other questions.

Who sets the standard that will be used? How are the people on this program going to be picked, will we have political appointees or someone from the local area? And finally what happens if you disagree with the standard either on principle, religious reasons, or on moral cause? What is the after effect going to be, will we have a rise in cases of children being taken away from parents because their child is eating too many fatty foods or not getting enough exercise. The next program will pay teaching hospitals an “incentive” to increase the numbers of minority students within their programs. Some will say that I am racist and against minorities to the contrary when it comes to medical practitioners I want this country to have the very best. I want those who want to be doctors get there on their own abilities and drive, not being promoted simply because of race, gender, age, and economic status. It was independence in spirit and attitude that made us great but when you advance one social group over another because you feel they deserve a better life what does that say about us as a nation.

In closing our congress and the Democratic Party has put us on the path of European socialism what’s the next manufactured right. Will it be the free university level degree, home ownership regardless if people can’t afford it, or will it be that the government will create a guaranteed job for you? We have now put our feet on that slippery slope in which the end is total government which assumes that the individual is too stupid to know what’s good for them and if you disagree then you are treated as an extremist and called fake and crazy. To those who voted for this bill and the amendments that was added the voter’s of this country have long memories and soon you may find out what it means to go against the will of the people. It’s time for us as citizens to no longer assume that the people we vote in to office will do what’s best for us. It’s time for us to become educated in the politics and policy’s of Washington, and when congress passes legislation know if it benefits us or hurt us as a nation and as individuals. In short become involved become knowledgeable in all that goes on in Washington and when “our representative’s” don’t do what we want hold their feet to the fire and make them understand, if they don’t replace them with better candidates. Sizzle on BACON

Dan Deno