Obama rejected calls to give the legislation more time.
"Now's not a time to slow down," he said at a hastily arranged White House event on Friday, which was followed by an announcement via Twitter that he will hold a Wednesday night news conference.
Well, I ask, what hell is the rush!? Even the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office is saying this thing is outrageously expensive, and there's no articulated solution in sight.
Frankly, I'm getting extremely sick and tired of this "the sky is falling" approach from BO. Not to mention all these social programs, bailouts and takeovers. Per BO, there's no time to slow down, think, read the proposed legislation, deliberate, and determine if it makes sense. No. It's at least ONE TRILLION DOLLARS over 10 years, meant to go into a system that is already unsustainable because of piss poor government management, but don't you worry. BO says its okay, so it must be fine. WAKE UP PEOPLE, and start thinking for yourselves! This is not a cult!
$787 Billion stimulus - No time to waste! We must pass it now, or the country will collapse! Remember that one? Well, most of that money hasn't been spent yet, and we haven't collapsed. (Although I'm sure all the earmarks are being spent first.)
Meanwhile, while we have not yet recovered from the recession, and the $787 billion has not yet begun to be repayed:
$1 Trillion for health care - No time to waste! We must pass it now, or, or, or... we must pass it now! You gotta wonder what this agenda is all about. It's just irrational, and keeps smelling more and more like a totalitarianism. Frankly, for our President to even run so roughshod over so many people's concerns about the finances of this thing is so reckless and disrepectful, its disgusting. But then, its becoming a pattern. It's not about us. It's about him.
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This posted inadvertently. I mean to put in the link to a news article, and edit the piece just a bit more. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteHere's the article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE56G7IW20090717
I would agree that, to those that have health insurance, UHC may not seem so urgent.
ReplyDeleteThe US is the richest country in the world and we spend more on our health care than any other nation, but our results are worse.
One correction: Our results are better. The opposite conclusion doesn’t square with the fact that people from the rest of the world come here if they want the best medical care.
ReplyDeleteThere's no doubt that our system could use some improvement, but to tweak it is one thing, to convert it to UHC is to destroy it. Don’t’ fall for it. While “everyone” has health care in Europe and Canada, those systems are actually rationed, very slow, and provide a lesser standard of care than ours. We have our horror stories, but they are far fewer and farther between than those in the EU and CA. Why do you think it is that anyone who can afford it, buys private insurance in EU? What does that say about how good their public insurance is? Also, while I don’t have them available, I’m sure there are very good statistics on the wait times for surgeries in EU and CA, versus the US. Something on the order of years versus days for the US.
Moreover, our system does treat those who have no health insurance. It happens all the time through various resources. In fact, there are laws on the books that prevent HCPs/hospitals from turning away patients with immediate medical needs. That’s how all of our illegals get medical treatment – they just walk into a hospital.
Look, there will always be people without health care. But overhauling our system to turn it into a European-style health care plan is the wrong way to go, not only because it will severely degrade health care in this country, but because it is also financially unsustainable. Moreover, penalizing small businesses (in addition to raising taxes and the other many ways proposed to get this money), will kill our economic engine and stifle this country’s growth… maybe permanently. Winning the battle, but losing the war, is shortsighted.
(Just think about this: Why did Nancy Pelosi recently suggest that US military vets should pay for their own healthcare? Can we not afford that?)
“The problem with [social programs] is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.”
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“Trying to tax a country into prosperity is like standing in a bucket and trying to lift yourself up by the handle.”
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