Absolute Logic Absolutely

It seems to be a talking point in any type of debate about Washington and passing new legislation – Why are the Republicans not contributing anything to solve problems? It has been heard over and over again including in recent campaigning by the left  (Martha Coakley Massachusetts Senate Special election) that Republicans are “do nothing” or “obstructionist” for solving problems. GOP Stonewalling is another term I’ve heard them use.  And what problems are they speaking of here? They claim that health care in this country is in crisis. They use the tactics of demonizing the insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and other key players in the health care industry.  They want to use the power of government to fix this crisis of health care. But how? There solution seems to be to ignore the facts and demonize the health care industry. This leads a reasonably intelligent person to believe their motives are not to improve health care care for the people but for some other diabolical reason – namely they want more power for their party and the corrupt philosophy they represent.

First of all there is not one single model of any government in the world effectively managing health care without major problems including budget problems or actually giving the people under that type of health care the type of care currently offered in the USA.  Any government managed health care system in the world is nothing but an experiment in socialism and everyone knows how successful socialism is……….right? (Everyone except Democrats and Progressives) History gives us that lesson.   Here is small list of the success of government run health care systems:

• BURNHAM FORGETS 230,000 ON LIST – In the UK 230,000 people on a 18 week waiting list after a recommendation from a doctor that they need to go in the hospital (18 weeks!!!!) Additionally, look how accountable the bureaucrat is about this issue.
• The Bureaucrat Army – 1.2 billion GB Pounds just for bureaucrats and clerical staff to manage (or mis-manage) the health care system in Great Britain. That was a rise of 81% over a 4 year period.
• A three year old girl has a heart operation canceled three times because of bed shortages in hospitals. More than 57,000 surgeries postponed for non-clinical reasons including lack of beds.
• For a child in the UK who needs a wheel chair they have to hope they win the postal code lottery. Average wait is two years!
• Life saving cancer drugs kept from patients because of red tape
• Canadians are asking, “Will socialized medicine in the US kill Canadians?”
• Canadian health care is free and first class – if you can wait

Okay, there are hundreds if not thousands of stories out there we could link to that tells you how bad socialized or government run health care is for people living in those countries. I have specific questions for politicians and people who want the US government to manage my health care:

• Is there an exit strategy if this thing doesn’t work out? I mean social security is broke, medicare and Medicaid are on life support and bleeding the states like a stuffed pig but we continue with these ponzi schemes like everything is okay.
• Who is the genius that wants me to buy this current health care proposal? The genius that says it will not effect the budget???? I can’t stop laughing at that………….you must be really stupid if you believe the government is going to take over 1/7th of the US economy and it will not effect the budget of the USA no matter how you spin it.
• Another genius came up with this: You are going to save money on health care by raising taxes on health care providers and suppliers of health care products. HUH???? It doesn’t cost a supplier when you raise taxes on what they are selling. It cost the consumer. Here is some help for those who don’t get it…………………a buggy whip retails for 100 dollars and Uncle Sam decides to tax that buggy whip 10%. Does the retailer still sell the buggy whip for 100 dollars and pay Uncle Sam 10 dollars of that for the tax? No, the retailer sells the buggy whip for 110 dollars passing the tax on to you the consumer.

More to come later…………..I’ll leave you with this

Now back to the chief topic of solving problems and why the GOP have earned the name obstructionist, do nothing, or not contributing to the health care plan as drawn up by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. As a nation we went over 200 years without without the government becoming involved in health care except for state and federal governments regulating health insurance and tort laws. I will agree that tort law is not a straight forward topic however the solution to the problem of too many ambulance chasing lawyers suing everyone in site is to make a loser pays system. If a lawyer sues in court and loses then he is responsible for paying the legal fees of the entire process. I will also agree that certain industries do need some regulation but do these industries need government regulation? Doctors, lawyers, and engineers regulate themselves and set standards of conduct and quality of work as do most industries because they know poor quality of work and bad conduct will hurt their profession and/or industry. Anytime you add government regulation to the equation you add a layer of bureaucracy and extra expense that makes the services and products offered by these industries more expensive.

I believe the solution is not to add more government to the process but to get government out of the way and let the market control the cost. Stop creating more entitlements and growing government which ultimately kills the productive side of our economy because it sucks a vast amount of resources (namely the money taken for taxes) from the private sector to give to a government that is not accountable because of bureaucracy.  The current cost of entitlement programs to the taxpayers of the USA is over 100 trillion dollars (and here).

In conclusion, the GOP are not obstructionist or standing in the way of anything. They understand that the solution is not government. The problem is government and excessive government regulation. The Democrats want to make this behemoth bigger and bigger at the expense of the private sector knowing full well there is no model in the world of such a successful type of system. It is a pipe dream and in my opinion will only lead to bankrupting this country and possibly leading to a split in the USA by causing states to leave the Union. We all know what happened the last time that happened.

From Big Foot……………….

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/01/29/obama_health_care_bill_might_have_violated_pledge_on_keeping_some_doctors_and_insurers.html

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