This Post first ran in March of 2005.
National Health Insurance? No way!
Someone once said: "If you think health Insurancre is expensive now, wait 'til it's free!"
“National Health Insurance” is one of the primary tools used by a government to control her people. That alone is enough for we to be whole-heartedly against it.
Now, lets get something straight… I believe the Health Insurance Companies, in America, deserve what they get. They have been, in my opinion, abusing their subscribers for entirely too long. Rates have risen thru the roof at an undeservedly fast pace. Sure medical costs have gone up, but not at the percentages your insurance premiums have gone up. This has to stop. But National Health Care is a cure worse than the disease.
More government in our lives is more than just a little bit scary. Once National Healthcare is implemented, and don’t get me wrong, I believe some form will be, your life will be under the control of the administrators of that insurance.
For Instance, lets say you have an obesity problem. You have developed a heart problem as a result of the obesity. You need treatment for your heart. National Health Care says: “OK, we will not pay for the heart treatment until you lose weight”. Or, they provide all citizens with a chart, approved by the FDA, of the “Approved Foods” all citizens should eat. They make it clear that if you cannot show proof of having ingested those “approved” foods, on a regular basis, also decided by them, you Health Insurance is no good. You will not receive treatment.
Or, another example, you may be allowed to have one child only. It must be a boy. (See China.) If you choose to have another baby, after the approved ONE, the costs will come out of your pocket. Get the picture?
Now, this does not take into account the reduced quality of care we will receive from the medical community. Their hearts will not be it. After 8 years. or so, in school, to learn their profession and they will become “salaried government employees”. Need I say more?
The left is hell-bent on imposing such a system on the citizens of this country. That is another reason we must refuse them power, ever again, in the Congress. At least in numbers large enough to affect legislation.
National Health Care is a Socialist dream. It is also a Conservative’s worst nightmare.
We must be on our guard, for some form of National Health Care is about to raise its ugly head in the Nation’s legislature. It is time for conservatives to exercise their power and stop it in its tracks as we did the “Clinton Care” attempt in the ‘90s.
Lets get it done.
“Longstreet”
I do not understand what you have against every citizen having the same health care as "Our Employees" in Congerss and the Whitehouse.
ReplyDeleteSeveral reasons: The god-awful cost of national healthcare (If you think healthcare is expensive now... wait 'til it's free!) and the godawful BAD treatment from hospitals and doctors, under a national healthcare plan, and the fact that the heathcare of the average citizen, under such a plan, will never come close to equalling that which the Congressmen and Senators have now, or in the future.
ReplyDeleteIf I were a Med student in college, and the government passed a National healthcare plan, I'd drop out of medical school immediately and choose another vocation. Or, continue my medical education and, upon graduation, move to a county which would allow me to practice and reap the monetary rewards I trained for. Call it greed it you must, but greed, like fear, is a great motivator.
One has only to consider the Post Office to see just how capable government employees would be at delivering health services!
I get a great sevie for 37 cents from the post office. Anyway Longstreet I am sick of fat cat insurance companies and fat cat politicians telling my I need to tighten up my belt. i pay for those less fortunate than myself to have better coverage than I do. I just think we all should have the best. Tell your grandchildren that they do deserve the best but they can't have it because it's too expensive. Sorry to make it sound personal, but it is and I am not attacking you or your family in anyway. I believe in family values and medical coverage is a family value.
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