Your Government Health Care Plan–We Take it Over And The “Rich” Will Pay For It

posted at 6:58 am on June 10, 2009 by Rovin
[ Healthcare ]   

As I watched the classic Robin Hood with Errol Flynn last Sunday afternoon, it dawned on me that Robin wasn’t stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Well, not quite. In this case, the “rich” was the GOVERNMENT, (a propped up monarchy led by a King’s wicked brother, and his sheriff), who were taking from the poor and the working class for one reason only, to make A POWERFUL GOVERNMENT MORE POWERFUL. Robin was representing the people’s grievances against an oppressive government.

Sound vaguely familiar?

Today, it’s your government that is becoming far too powerful. By using their favorite weapons—the mainstream media and weakened economy—your government is falsely using the rich vs. poor (class warfare) to present their classic argument that it’s the government’s responsibility to create jobs and economic stability. Barack Obama and the Democrats believe that if they take from the “rich” and give to the poor, (trickle-up economics), everyone’s problems will be solved. The only hitch is, our government has only one REAL source of revenue, and that’s the working class. Every small business that is struggling to make payrolls, every large company that employs thousands working on shrinking margins are searching for relief from expenditures to keep their employees employed. What is your government doing to “help”?

They want to create another government program that will cost trillions of dollars that will make them MORE POWERFUL in controlling the lives of its people. And how does our government propose to pay for this new program? You guessed it, the working class. We are becoming, (at an alarming pace), servants, and peasants of a government that is choking the life out free markets and independent businesses that are the lifeblood of this nation. Though the bailout process, our government continues its assault on private enterprise—major financial institutions, the auto industry, and now a health care industry that is in dire need of reconstruction. By claiming the need for finding a way to insure forty-one million people without the ability to pay for their healthcare, (which means the government now picks up the tab), our government is now planning to take over the entire system to the tune of trillions more in pure unfunded debt.

Transferring wealth has become an art of the liberal democrats. And they’re at it again. With Barack Obama’s blessing and encouragement, he now wants the House to scrap his plan to tax health benefits and put the full burden on the “wealthy”:

The president is trying to avoid broad-based levies such as a Senate proposal to tax some employer-provided health benefits Axelrod said. Instead he is urging lawmakers to reconsider limiting all tax deductions for Americans in the highest tax brackets.

“He made a very strong case for the proposal that he put on the table, which was to cap deductions for high-income Americans, and he urged them to go back and look at that,” Axelrod said on the CNN’s “State of the Union.” Goolsbee, appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” said Obama is “mindful” about how “ordinary Americans are able to foot the bills” and never proposed taxing employee benefits. LINK 

The “reducing health care cost” myth

Under the guise of reducing health care cost, (which your government claims is the root of the problem), your government says they can do a better job at insuring the system. While Ed Morrissey provides us with a “Closer Look at the Health Care Bill”, Bloomberg News raises the “red flags” that should concern us all:

Group Rates

The outline suggests consumers who have individual health insurance policies that they like could keep them. Still, it says that “by and large” the nation’s market for individually purchased health insurance policies would move to a new federally operated exchange. It would permit both individuals and employees of small firms to buy policies at less expensive group rates. “States will have the option to run a state exchange but the default will be a national exchange,” according to the outline.  link  ( all emphasis mine)

Enter Edward Kennedy:

In the Senate, health committee chairman Edward Kennedy has an early draft of legislation that also includes a so-called “individual mandate,” and would require all employers to supply health insurance for workers or contribute to the cost of a plan.

Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat, would also create a public health plan to compete with private insurers, a priority of Obama’s that is opposed by Republicans, and would bar insurers from limiting coverage.  link

You all know what a “public health plan” is? Yep, that’s your unfunded government in action again that will have to eventually find a source of revenue to pay for the program. This is where our dear friends on the left come up with their Robin Hood mentality, claiming they will “soak the rich”, (higher tax rates), to pay for another power-grab in the name of the “little people” What our current liberal Democrats fail to, or refuse to understand is that businesses/employers will be forced to pass this cost into the price of goods and services. Who ultimately pays for this new cost? BINGO! YOU, THE CONSUMER. Get your tape recorders out, (or create a DVD), to provide for your grandchildren when they ask why you allowed the “sheriff”, (your government), to collect a majority of their incomes that made them totally dependent on their government.

I was going to end this post with a “there’s your power-grabbing government in action again” mantra, but I can’t let this last line in the Bloomberg article slide:

“The legislation would seek to get some cost savings from Medicare and Medicaid, including incentives for doctors to coordinate their care and get bonuses for improving quality, according to the outline.”

Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats are proposing bonuses to doctors and this will reduce the cost of Medicare and Medicaid? (Can I get you spoon with that can of worms?) The last time I checked, the “quality” of health care in this country was, and still is, the best in the world. (I fully expect to see legislation for teacher’s bonuses to improve the quality of education, but this will have to be argued in another post).

At least Robin Hood fed his people fresh meat while they sharpened their swords and crafted their arrows preparing for battle against its oppressive government seeking more power and control over its people. Your government today is feeding all of us the stale idea that they are the only answer to the economic woes of its people. And the taste is socialism. Swallow at your own peril.

Blowback