The West Melbourne Post

Under our current system, the poor and uninsured are not denied life saving health care, just because they cannot pay.

Under reform, cost guidelines will limit what care is available.

Reform will set standards for insurance that will eliminate Health Savings Accounts (limiting people’s ability to pay their own bills).

Reform will shut down organizations like Medi-Share, where people join together to to pay each other’s medical bills.

Reform will force insurance companies to offer the same coverage as the government insurance.  Sounds good, until you think about it.  The government program doesn’t have to show a profit to stay in business.  Other companies won’t be able to compete.  Then the government insurance will end up costing to much, leading to rationing (either through rationing policies or by delays in getting service).  It has happened in every country that it has been tried.  Isn’t insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?

The Democrats seem to have misinterpreted the change that we voted for last November.

During the campaign, when did Obama pass McCain in the polls?

It was in June, when the first big bailout went through Congress and McCain was more closely associated with it than Obama.  There was no mandate to change the basic underpinnings of our economy.

Many claim we need health insurance reform because “there are 50 Million uninsured people” in our country.  If the 50 Million number is true, then based upon population of 304,059,724 (July 2008), then we are talking about drastically changing how health care is provided based on a “problem” for only 16% of the population.

The uninsured still get health care (subsidized by the rest of us), so it is not like 16% of the population is dying for lack of health insurance.

Do we really want to trade the best health care system in the world (people from other countries wouldn’t come here for care if we didn’t have the best) for one where the Government would decide who gets what treatment and how long they have to wait for it?

In his call for “Health Insurance Reform” tonight, President Obama cited the theoretical case of a young person who thinks he is invincible and therefore doesn’t get health insurance, but “gets hit by a bus and then we all have to pay for his health care!”

As a lawyer and the spouse of an ex-hospital administrator, he should know that his argument is deceptive, because the bus company’s insurance would pay for the damages caused by the bus.

Bernie Maddoff gets 150 years in prison, but what about the bureaucrats who enabled him or were warned about him and did nothing?  Shouldn’t they be in the same cell block?

Where are the trials of the people behind Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac scandals?

I believe Bernie Maddoff should spend the rest of his life in jail (doing hard labor not writing his memoirs), but he should have plenty of company!

House Vote On Passage: H.R. 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (aka the single largest tax increase in American history)

From the news coverage today you would think that the most important news of today is:

1. The death of Michael Jackson.
2. The affair of Gov. Sanford.
3. Congressman Conyers’ wife pleading guilty this morning to conspiring to commit bribery.
4. North Korea threatening war.
5. The regime in Iran slaughtering its citizens.

The real important news story is that the House of Representatives passed a climate control bill 219-212, with eight Republicans voting “Yes” and 44 Democrats voting “No”.

I didn’t learn in science class that we could affect the climate by passing laws.  But then I took most of my classes that talked about weather before the 1977 proclamation of “The Coming Ice Age”.

Hopefully, the Senate will do its job and stop this nonsensical bill from becoming law.

Remember how the bail outs were going to keep the automakers from going bankrupt?

With the bankruptcies in Chrysler and General Motors, do you have the feeeling you were lied to?

Where did all our money go?

Where are all the people who complained about the government in their bedrooms?

The government is now in their car companies trying to dictate what they can drive.

Don’t panic.
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