You’ve got to be kidding….
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Just read reviews on the Congressional Budget Offices report…on the effects of the proposed HEALTH CARE Legislation. Great. The contemplated legislation will affect two (2%) percent of the population a generation from now. The result is a net benefit to the insurance industry. What it doesn’t do: It doesn’t lower the cost of an aspirin disbursed in any metropolitan hospital from fifty dollars to the ten cents it actually costs. It doesn’t provide health care for a two-year old living in downtown St. Paul who, by the way, doesn’t have any.
I do not find anything in the Constitution that allows the government to provide health care. It is simply another of the Socialist, Welfare-State actions that are destroying the nation.
The real problem with Health Care is that it is a monopoly. Allow any school that can meet standard criteria to open an Medical School, and provide a National standard test for admission to practice medicine and you will soon resolve the problem through increased supply of providers and competition. But as long as you have a death-grip on the medical profession by the AMA, and drugs controlled by the FDA, etc, etc, etc, you will continue to have the same problems.
In my view, America is a twisted, perverted mess of out-of-control capitalism mixed with socialism. We have multi-national corporations and defense companies who have bought and paid for our elected officials and the bureaucrats in office and the combination is a defacto monopoly-controlled economy. This is why we have energy problems, food problems, health care problems, pollution problems, etc, etc, etc. Mixed with this, we have a bunch of folks with a socialist bent engaged in socialist and welfare programs. Underpinning all of this is a banking and monetary system that is based on false paper currency and privately owned and operated.
But, more important than all of that, is that the American people are corrupt and we have the government we deserve. Americans have long since abandoned the principles of the Declaration and the Constitution. In the whole, we are a lazy, corrupt, lying, cheating and stealing people. We engage in millions and millions of abortions of convenience each year. 70% of married people cheat on their spouses. 80% of people admit to cheating on their taxes. We get what we deserve.
And, frankly, the only solution I see is to let it come crashing down, and then clean up the mess and put together something new. I think the Mormons call that the Millenium. Until then, I find political discussions of interest, but mostly in terms of what to prepare to change in the “next round”. I have pretty much written this round off.