One of the main reasons Americans overwhelmingly disapprove of Obamacare – an unprecedented takeover attempt of our health care industry – is because we don’t want to have to deal with an enormous D.M.V-on-steroids for our health care.
Every time I hear a liberal democrat on TV talk about Obamacare I notice at some point in the conversation an insipid comment about how the American People are just uninformed – they don’t really know what is in the bill, and thus popularity for the bill is marginal. How out-of-touch and snobbish do you have to be to actually believe that load of sanctimonious crap? In reality, Americans know EXACTLY what a federal government health care takeover entails: AND WE DON’T WANT IT! Pure and simple!
George Will explained it perfectly when responding to Robert Reich on ABC’s This Week on 3/7:
Will: You say they [insurance companies] have huge profits. As you know, confiscate all the profits of all the health insurance companies, with those profits you could finance our healthcare for 48 hours. What you do for the next 363 days I don’t know. Second, you say there’s not enough competition? Fine, let them compete in a national market across state lines.
Reich: Yes, let them compete across state lines, fine. But not a race to the bottom. Set minimum federal standards because we’ve seen over and over again that the recipients of health insurance don’t know what they are buying very often. Until there are common standards, minimal standards, then people are going to be taken. And that is what’s happened over and over again.
Will: There you have the premise of this legislation and the core of today’s liberalism: the American people are such dopes they can’t be counted upon to buy their own insurance.
And it is exactly this snobbish, aristocratic, arrogant attitude that the American people are rejecting. Liberal democrats/Obamacare supporters basically presume the reason Obamacare is so unpopular is because we are too stupid to understand why we don’t want the federal government running our health care and we are too stupid to know how to buy our own health insurance. According to these people, we are too dumb to realize that a federally ran health care industry will
I hate to have to insult the intelligence of my vast and fine readership, but apparently I need to make a statement to clear the air concerning opposition to Obamacare.
Being anti-Obamacare does not automatically equate to being anti-health care reform. This is a boring and counterfactual claim liberal democrats love to throw around.
Of course Americans want reform, but we want REAL reform. Write a bill that will help bring down the cost of health care, insure more Americans without becoming a massive entitlement program, and establish measures for tort reform. How about writing a bill that does not have a provision for federally funded abortions, or a bill that doesn’t insure illegal aliens living in the country?
The majority of the country is quite clearly adamantly opposed to giving our entire health care system over to the federal government – roughly 16% of our entire economy. We all know the government’s track record running massive entitlement programs and bureaucracies – failure! Not only does the government fail miserably in running massive entitlement programs (social security and medicare are bankrupt) but they the programs seem to have a nasty way of gradually getting larger and larger, encompassing more and more, ultimately leaving less and less of your liberties intact.
Some analogies:
Line up 100 Brits and 100 Americans– have them smile – and YOU tell me what teeth you like better…
Find 100 terminally ill cancer patients in Canada and ask them, if they had the choice, where they would like to receive treatment …
Starting to catch my point?
Questions:
Why haven’t the democrats in Congress made any effort toward writing a bill that will actually lower health insurance premium costs instead of attempting a comprehensive health care industry takeover? Why haven’t they entertained republican ideas which introduce fair market principles to the health care industry by opening cross state competition? Fundamental economic principles teach us competition drives costs down, while at the same time, delivers increases in innovation and invention. Why doesn’t the Obama administration just admit they are trying to ram a health care industry takeover through without the consent of the People?
Answers:
Because, it is all part of the plan. Don’t get me wrong, I am not an aspiring conspiracy theorist: I am a realist; I can read the writing on the wall.
Like millions of other Americans that are worried about the current direction of the country, I can read between the lines of the Obama administration’s vision for hope and change in America. The vision is an America with government running virtually every aspect of our lives – an America with a limited private sector, diminished strength in the world, and entitlement programs encompassing everything from what car you drive to where you go to school to how you get your health care. Sure it sounds great to say Americans are entitled to these things, but at what cost?
Furthermore, since when do Americans have to be dependant on the federal government for a living? Here is the rock-solid truth: the government does not create anything in and of itself – the private sector does. Although I personally wouldn’t dream of attempting entrepreneurialism under the current economic conditions and political climate, entrepreneurs and free market principles are the creators of jobs and wealth. Government jobs, programs, and entitlements use tax dollars. It is a transfer of money – basically a wash (actually in America’s case a deficit). The bottom line is, government does not, nor has it ever created wealth, nor can it truly stimulate the economy. What the government SHOULD do to stimulate the economy is get out of it, and bring the out-of-control spending to a screeching halt! Loosen up on corporations and small business, and yes, give them tax breaks and incentives to grow, and for the love of God and all that was once great about American Exceptionalism – stop trying to take over the entire health care industry!.
Unfortunately, these are concepts that many Americans do not fully grasp, and as a byproduct of our ignorance and apathy, government has been able to grow to a size and scope that it was never supposed to reach.
Obamacare lies debunked:
We debunked the lie they attempted to force feed us about the alleged “40-some million people” in the United States that do not have health insurance. Just do some research on this – the actual number of uninsured, legal citizens, who actually want health insurance but cannot afford it is less than 6% of this fabricated 40-plus million lie.
We debunked the lie of “no federally funded abortions.” The language in the bill clearly states otherwise. In pure black and white on page 2071, lines 10-18 of H.R. 3590, look it up for yourself if you dont believe me.
We debunked the lie “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor”. Under Obamacare, your doctor may not even be practicing anymore.
We debunked the lie of “80% of Americans like their doctor, not their insurance”. No – 80% of Americans with health insurance like their health insurance. Of course we like our doctors. If we don’t, guess what, we find a new one: Something that we will not be able to do under Obamacare.
Plea to any legislators on the fence about Obamacare:
Although the American people are against a government takeover of our health care system, (just look at any major accredited pole available) we are not against true health care reform. We only ask that you do what is right and good for the country and stop the government’s attempt to take the health care industry over.
The opposition to this bill -- the majority of the American people, are not stupid. We do not oppose this government takeover attempt because we don’t know what it entails; we are against it because we know EXACTLY what it entails. You were elected to listen to your bosses, the American people whom you represent in Washington. If you decide to ignore what we want, we will take appropriate action to ensure you never represent us in a legislative or political capacity again!
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