Wasting Time With Alex

The end game…

Anyone that doubted that the final destination of any health plan proposed by democrats would be government control of healthcare, should no longer do so. Oh sure, now they say that it is only supposed to “compete” with private healthcare systems. Have a look:

March 26 (Bloomberg)—House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House this year will consider health-care legislation including an option for a government-run program that would compete with insurers. “This is a big agenda, and I believe it should have a public option in it for it to be really substantial,” Pelosi told reporters at her weekly news conference in the U.S. Capitol.

President Barack Obama has said he wants Congress to produce legislation that would expand health-care coverage for the country’s 46 million uninsured and reduce medical costs. Republicans and some insurers have opposed the creation of a new program modeled on Medicare as part of the effort. The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, last week called the idea a “deal-breaker.”

The thing is that one needs to remember that these democrats feel no compunction in violating the constitution and usurping powers of office they are not granted. Exhibit A. is the AIG bonus fiasco. Exhibit B., and so on, is the current attempt to allow government complete control of both the banking industry - both those that took TARP or other moneys and those that did not - as well as the entire financial industry under the auspice that it is being done to make sure greedy corps do not do bad things. Of course, the fact that the current meltdown is the fault of government, the very people that are responsible for the economic disasters we are facing because of the ridiculous and idiotic regulations that forced banks to loan to high risk entities & people as well as created that whole credit default swap business scam, is never discussed. Why in heaven’s name are we letting the fox fix the mess it made in the hen house in the first place?

Anyway, does anyone want to make the case that these people would not lose any sleep using their legislative powers to make it impossible for private insurers to ever “compete” with them, and hence, have government take over healthcare? Before you answer this, understand the fact that the main function of these politicians has been to help those interests that hand them big money through laws that squashed competition of any kind instead of helping the people. Want proof? Have a look at how much money these big financial institutions now getting bail out and stimulus money are raking in and compare it to the “donations” they made to the democrats during the last election cycle. The payouts are orders of magnitude larger. In fact, the sad truth is that the biggest way for businesses, especially those that are referred to as “too big to fail”, can make money is not to invest in infrastructure, growth or, modernization, but to buy political support.

Once government regulates away competition and owns healthcare, they own the people that have no choices. If you want to continue the illusion of free healthcare, even the mediocre and disastrous crap it will have to turn into when run by the same kind of idiots that run our other government agencies like the DMV, you will have to keep these democrats in power. If you ever experienced the pain of a HMO, get ready for that on steroids. Incredibly limited choices, poor quality, long wait times, and a ton of denials. But the politicians, and most of the elites that are dumb enough to think they will get an exception, do not care because they have their own plan. It’s not about helping anyone but holding on to power. And that’s the real reason they are pushing for this. Not because they care about the poor, but because they care about making sure they have an iron, and permanent, grip on power. Shame on the idiots that think otherwise.