Obama tells AMA 'America may go the way of GM', page 1

Originally posted by jibeho
Barry's healthcare plan has to pass because of a sudden urgency just like the stimulus bill. Obama instilled the fear of disaster into his followers and even hit the campaign trail to push his stimulus rhetoric. Obama soon revealed the duplicity of his rhetoric and the arrogance of his character when he took off on a pricey Valentine’s Day vacation in Chicago for the weekend instead of signing the stimulus bill that he said needed to be passed as soon as possible to avert an irreversible economic meltdown.

Now he wants to destroy our health care industry and many of the jobs associated with it. Keep your eyes on the low hanging fruit in the industry. If this plan to nationalize health care happens, this low hanging fruit will be the first to go.

I am referring to therapeutic services which are currently covered by insurance and will be the first to go under a new plan. Physical, Occupational, Speech and Psychological therapies will take the initial hit. The bureaucrats will inevitably save money by deeming the majority of these treatments as unnecessary.

There is a far greater danger to socialized medicine in that while in theory every has access what do they have access too.

People from Canada, France, England, and many other countries that have socialized medicine often travel far and at great personal cost to the United States of America to see cutting edge specialists that primarily only practice here in the United States because the United States rewards them the greatest for their skills and knowledge by letting them set the prices for their services and letting them choose who they see.

The overall quality and innovation of medicine degrades when it is socialized and worse still even if you have the money or the means to ensure your survival through the best of care, such a system is no longer locally and internally available to you.

Worst yet is if the government simply wants you to die for lack of care, they can just deny care to anyone whose reached a certain age, level of health or political mindset, or physical productivity that makes that individual's continued survival no longer appealing to the state.

America offers the most expensive health care in the world.

America offers the widest range and the best possible health care in the world to those that can afford it.

People with minor accidents and aches and pains will no longer have to foot the bill for their own care.

People with major accidents and complicated situations who can afford to fit the bill will no longer have access to premium care.

The government will have access to what has always been confidential information between you and your physicians and doctors.

The government will further tax the citizen under a heavier and heavier yoke of oppressive taxes to accomplish this.

There is already socialized medicine for the poor and disabled it's called medicare.

There is already a public health trust in each state and county to aide in caring for the indigent.

Charity picks up the tab for some of it, Medical universities who utilize indegent patients to help train future doctors pay for the rest of it and a small portion is picked up by tax payers.

This is not about giving better quality or more care, this is about government control and power and the deepening economic servitude of the tax payer.

Businesses not citizens should pay taxes to fund the infrastructure that makes commerce work.

Business should help with the cost of medical care for the workers that enable them to make money.

Once upon a time they did through Unions before businesses who want to always maximize their profits at everyone even the consumer's and nation's expense led a war on them and the government always intent on growing bigger and more costlier through taxation drove businesses to seek cheaper labor and materials in foreign markets.

All this does is make the rich richer, and the poor pooer, while most everyone else walks away with less and gets less than every before.