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Obama, Health Care, And The People- What Gives?
Posted by Shuttercraft • 8/28/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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As I am approaching the departure date for my walk across America I have been thinking what to talk to President Obama about if I get a few minutes with him. When speaking to people about this, most tell me to talk him about health-care. This blog is going to be dedicated to my walk and I will stay away from political and religious matters most of the time, I just feel that I have to give my opinion about this. The health-care debate is becoming a war of lies, rumors, and blackmail. The debate has gotten especially ugly since Sarah Plain has joined in saying that Obama’s health-care plan is downright evil.
According the Atlantic Online Palin wrote:
“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.”
This sort of language is exactly the kind of fear-inducing talk that is driving protests over the edge into violence. Instead of being a voice of reason by opposing health care reform on reasonable grounds Palin invokes the kind paranoid arguments that contribute to extremismIts. It all over the Internet, TV, radio, and just about every other form of media, you can not escape this. We are told by countless sources that this heath-care plan will take away the freedom to choose your doctors, the freedom to choose what’s in your plan, the freedom to keep your existing plan, the freedom to be rewarded for healthy living, and the freedom to choose high-deductible coverage. Now people are brainwashed by this crap so bad they oppose the healthcare reform without knowing a thing about it.
Briefly after all these rumors spread Obama sends a message to all Health Care Critics For Spreading Outlandish Rumors in one of his weekly address talks.
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The entire healthcare debate has been improperly framed and is full of misinformation on all sides.
First, instead of all this focus on healthcare(aftercare)) which is particularly aimed at all the hypocondriacs among us, people should be focusing on living healthy first instead of obsessing about how they need insurance. It slays me when I see overweight, underexercised people stressing about insurance. If they would get off the couch, start excercising, and do something productive, they might not get sick in the first place. How dare people who are such irresponsible slobs demand anyone do that which they are not doing for themselves. Obviously the mentally ill, people with congenital or other conditions that they did nothing to contribute to are excused from this scorn.
Second, no one should go broke getting healthcare. When anyone's healthcare bill exceeds some set amount, five, ten twenty thousand, the government should pick up the tab. And for the disabled and poor I'm pretty sure medicare and medicaid, in their own pathetic way, are already giving government health casre.
I think this debate is all about increasing government control of the lives of millions of middle class Americans who are pretty satisfied with their current plan. Since when did you think the post office (which claims it's going broke) do better than Fed Ex or UPS? Having more bureaucrats (whether they be insurance companies or government workers)will not make for better care.
And if you don't think the president's health care czar, who has claimed the hippocratic oath gets in the way of what is in the best interest of society, is not a proponent of rationed care, you are not paying attention.
People should be given an allowance by their employer or the government to buy their own coverage for the first twenty thousand the government doesn't cover. You would be surprised how many senseless visits to the doctors office or emergency room would be eliminated.
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