Results so far:
| Yes | 36% | 28 votes | Total: 77 votes | |
| No | 64% | 49 votes |
While some people might see the "yes" vote, and say, "What are you thinkin'?" the question only asks if it will be effective. Now, if it said, "Will it be effective in administering health care and lowering costs?," not only would I have said no, but I would have said "Hell, no!"
Ways in which the President Impostor-In-Chief B. Hussein Obama's plan will be effective:
1. It will limit choices of services offered by doctors. In a health care field that prides itself on the best care and the most varied methods of care in the world, President Impostor-In-Chief B. Hussein Obama wants to limit that power of people to seek what medical care they wish to only what the government can afford. This process is called rationing-by-bureauc racy, and in similar fashions and in other countries it has been tried, (i.e. Canada, Great Britain), it has failed. In Great Britain, there is a ten-and-one-half month waiting list for pre-natal care. Too bad a pregnancy lasts only nine months and a week. Also in Great Britain, breast cancer patients are being turned away on account that the government has arbitrarily discontinued carrying the medicine used to treat breast cancer. In Canada, which is the example most liberals cite as being most effective, sure, the heart surgery is free if you can wait the five years from diagnosis to get it. In this way, President Impostor-In-Chief B. Hussein Obama's plan - fashioned much like the socialised health care of Great Britain and Canada, will ultimately kill off some more people.
2. It will diminish the availability of doctors. Who would want to be a doctor if everything you're willing to do to help a patient is forbidden or 'unsanctioned' by the government bureaucracy which decides what type of care can be administered? When you go to work, do you like being told what to do, how to do it, and how much or how little you can do it, and that if you don't do it in a prescribed way, you could be blacklisted from providing care? Plus, with medical malpractice insurance premiums likely to go up, the idea of a 'profiting' doctor's practice is likely to go by the wayside and into the dustbin.
3. It will destroy what is left of the shambles of the American economy. As more and more people struggle for work, the availability of jobs that would require that employers fully cover their employees increases costs, while the government continues to take higher and higher percentages from the employers simply at President Impostor-In-Chief B. Hussein Obama's whim. Jobs just in the past six months have become more scarce by over 7 million. In the odd case that someone in the White House isn't getting those numbers... that's about 5% of the total workforce that is still working. Companies won't tolerate more than the "pound of flesh" that is already being taken from them in the current form of health insurance offered by the government - the ponzi scheme that no one seems to be talking about - Social Security and Medicare (with all its parts). Who is going to pay for the massive entitlement programs? Surely not the Democrats?!? No, they want to fine people for not accepting the health insurance plan, as a similar bill to the President Impostor-In-Chief B. Hussein Obama's plan threatens what amounts to economic sanctions against the taxpayer for not accepting enrollment into the plan. The vicious cycle will lead the United States to a status as a nuclear-enabled Fourth World Country.
4. It will create further dependency on government - the unholy transformation to a Josef Stalin-type government from that which espoused freedom and even in the past, allowed freedom to flourish. Those who voted for "Change We Can Believe In" are going to find that they've elected people, including President Impostor-In-Chief B. Hussein Obama, whose values are morally bankrupt to the point that "CYA" is the name of the game, and the more corrupt you are, the more the Judas to American values you become.
The things that won't be provided in the President Impostor-In-Chief B. Hussein Obama's Health Care Reform:
Freedom. Any means for people to actually select the things that they would need in the form of health care would be gone. Government "Nanny State" gets to do that for you. So instead of being healthy like a Jack Lalanne and going strong, America will become a junked out Michael Jackson or someone who is pining in waiting for their next fix of health care via the government.
Variety. As the amount of doctors decrease, the amount of their specialties in treatment will decrease, so the race would be on to see who could be the government-sponsored doctor; one who probably spent his/her residency pushing pencils across a table. Quality and quantity will be scarce enough to almost vanish.
Empowerment and value. By the time the real motives are discovered as to what the plan's design is and reported honestly, America will become the "Brave New World" of Aldous Huxley's, rather than one of the citizens' making.
Better take your soma. The government may not approve your next dose.
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Since Obama is only trying to be a figure for "change" and not improvement, his plan will not accomplish anything. What I mean by this is that we have decent health care, in fact we have some of the best health care in the world. If you are seriously injured or dying, the emergency rooms must accept and treat you with or without insurance or a method of payment.
Go to another country and try to get the same level of care! I have, Brazil and England are on two different ends of economic stability and both fail in their socialized medicine. What America is lacking is the financial side of things.
The government needs to step up their side of the deal. Currently medicare and medical and other state and federal programs pay pennies on the dollar to hospitals. For this reason, hospitals justify super high prices on their services so that the pennies Obama gives back to them is sufficient. In addition, they do this for the guise of health insurance.
If you receive a $10,000 medical bill for a one night stay in a hospital, your insurance company will readjust down to let's say $8,000. Next they kick in their 80% and you kick in your 20% or whatever your coinsurance rate is. If insurance companies have already negotiated down these rates and most Americans have insurance, why not lower the charge to $8,000? Then force state and federal programs to pay a higher percentage?
Insurance companies also need to learn to cut their line off and let people die, sorry guys but I am a realist. What happens in a year or two when scientists learn to keep us alive for several more years but that the cost is so high it would bankrupt the economy? I guarantee some low life, never paid taxes, will find a way for the government to pay for the service!
This is what bankrupts the system, paying for ridiculous surgeries and illegal immigrants and pregnant illegal immigrants. Homeless and extremely poor of America are covered by Federal and State Programs (even though those programs only pay a little, a little is better than nothing).
So there you have it, money. The system works, the care is great but the costs are high. So why would the government step in? Why not then just create ways to force hospitals and insurance companies to work together and lower costs? Lastly, the government is the main problem now with health care. If the government is not willing to pay hospitals their costs, what makes you think they can run hospitals?
There aren't even enough doctors in the USA to compensate for a Federal Health Care System, then what. The government is trying to solve a problem but as usual the wrong way. You can't beat down the Federal Deficit by spending more money. Therefore you can't spend trillions of dollars to create a new health care system only because the current system is too expensive, that is backwards.
Use some of the money to pay higher rates for medicare, medical and other programs and the rest of the money to monitor and be a watchdog, nothing more.
Sometimes it is good to have the government step in, but in this case it will be a disaster. More money, more taxes, more freeloaders, and not enough doctors and taxpayers to make it work! Remember, taxpayers are footing the bill for all the gang bangers, prisoners, and low lifes who want free health coverage!
For another topic, why do we treat prisoners with full health coverage but not homeless and low income families? Shouldn't we take care of the good people of this country first and then the criminals and underworld last?
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