Obama has never claimed to have read the health care bill that he calls ‘his’. Neither have most of the supporters of the proposal.
Perhaps the limited experience of Obama may render him incapable of taking rational action. His service as a shyster for slimelords of the Tony Rezko ilk did not require the skills of a Clarence Darrow and anyone with a big mouth can be a rabble rouser and call himself a ‘community organizer’.
Perhaps Obama cannot understand some basic concepts of business that go beyond the selling of political favors in the great Chi-Town game of ‘pay to play’.
He and his chorus of sycophants would have us believe that the cost of a huge and bumbling health care bureaucracy could be offset by the elimination of fraud, waste, and abuse.
As a modest proposal, it might be wise to tackle the fraud, waste, and abuse first and see how much that reduces health care costs.
Those allegedly ‘unnecessary tests’ are likely being performed not to make money but to insulate health care providers from ruinous lawsuits. Defensive medicine might not save any lives but it does keep parasitical trial lawyers from becoming rich enough to build bigger mansions and keep multiple mistresses. Obama would allow a ‘demonstration project’ or two of tort reform under the watchful eye of a cabinet secretary already in bed with the trial lawyers.
So why not make tort reform the second order of business and do so with legislation that provides national relief rather than confine it to a few ‘demonstration projects’ that are fettered by the trial lawyers and their hirelings and lackeys in Congress? Perhaps we could retire those legislators who put the interests of some avaricious lawyers ahead of that of the people.
And what sane person believes that a tax on companies writing better-than-average health insurance policies would not get passed on to the consumers? Are the practitioners of the politics of envy stupid enough to believe what they are pushing or do they hold the collective intellect of the voting public in disdain? What about a tax on medical devices? Who will foot the bill for this one?
There was a quaint phrase in the mildly obscene bit of political humor entitled “Changing the Name of Arkansas” that defined the fate of that alleged effort of political sacrilege that might be applied to ObamaCare: “Dead as a whore’s turd in a piss-pot.” Please let it be so.
A strong message may follow.
Is this your evidence that Obama has not read any of the bills, Art Downs? “Obama has never claimed to have read the health care bill that he calls ‘his’. Neither have most of the supporters of the proposal.”
That’s not evidence, rather, it’s speculation. Moreover, there is no bill yet, only outputs of Senate and House committees. There has not even been a floor vote yet.
Art drones on with his nonsense: “There was a quaint phrase in the mildly obscene bit of political humor entitled “Changing the Name of Arkansas” that defined the fate of that alleged effort of political sacrilege that might be applied to ObamaCare: “Dead as a whore’s turd in a piss-pot.” Please let it be so.”
Right, Art, there is no need whatsoever for reform of our health care/health insurance system, except for tort reform. On which planet have you been spending most of your time lately?
Government run health care – the so-called “public option” – presents serious challenges for us. The private sector and competitive market forces are the best means to meeting health care needs. Watch this video from the U.S. Chamber http://www.friendsoftheuschamber.com/media/
Dana: “The private sector and competitive market forces are the best means to meeting health care needs.”
Dana, that’s what we have now, and it is not working.
The video you reference does not address health care, unless you tap the ‘health’ care tab, only to find that there are five videos.
I watched them all. The most informative one was the George Stephanopolis interview with Obama, in which Obama disagreed with George’s contention that there will be a “tax” increase.
But the main thing to note is that we do not yet have a bill, none even brought to the House or Senate floor for a debate. We need a bill before we can debate intelligently on it.
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To Dear Leader. Sounds like brainwashing to me.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/10/07/school_kids_sing_for_health_care_reform_on_set_of_cnn.html
Shorter Art Downs: We can make insurance companies work better by freeing them from legal accountability…
Government run health care – the so-called “public option” – presents serious challenges for us. The private sector and competitive market forces are the best means to meeting health care needs.
Just like the fire service – oh, wait…
BTW – Medicare is government run health care…
Why the effort to eliminate FSAa? Does this approach offer citizens a means of making decisions that should be left up to Big Brother?
Actually, it’s working just fine for the vast majority of Americans who, when polled, say they like their health care. And even those without insurance often do so by choice, especially the young and healthy. There are some minor problems with the current system, but you don’t fix a leak in the boat by tearing the whole boat apart and rebuilding it from the keel up.
Not so. We have HR 3200, which so far seems to be the basic outline Obama plans to follow. We should be debating this NOW, so as to help craft either a better bill, or (better yet) no bill at all.
If we wait till Congress has a complete bill and is ready to vote on it, it will be too late.
Eric:
But the main thing to note is that we do not yet have a bill, none even brought to the House or Senate floor for a debate. We need a bill before we can debate intelligently on it.
Not so. We have HR 3200, which so far seems to be the basic outline Obama plans to follow. We should be debating this NOW, so as to help craft either a better bill, or (better yet) no bill at all.
If we wait till Congress has a complete bill and is ready to vote on it, it will be too late.
We tried to debate HR 3200 and HR3400 a few times. The libs looked at the real words and said they were bogus. They don’t want to debate the Bill, they just want Obama to make their decisions for them.
Just checked: 5 posts on HR3200, 1 post on HR3400.