What we and Obama need is free
money for healthcare. A few days ago
there was a segment on the PBS NewsHour about potential changes in medical care
and it gave me an idea of where the money is coming from. One of those interviewed was a doctor who was
head of a society of neurological surgeons.
He described a case he had seen that day of an 82 year old woman with a
back problem. She needed an operation, a
BIG operation. He said that in
They don’t find a way to do a
$50,000 operation for $10,000. They just
don’t do the operation and use the money for somebody else. She does not get the surgery she was
expecting to get through Medicare or insurance. But she not only doesn’t get
the surgery, she doesn’t get the money back either. The money she has paid in
for decades is taken away and used for somebody else.
The only way for the Obama healthcare plan to work is to keep some from getting what they are currently eligible for and use the money to provide services to others who may have paid little or nothing into the system.
It is important to think about
these aspects before we go down this path.
There is no doubt that some way must be found to keep from spending vast
sums on people who aren’t likely to live much longer anyway. That’s a system that has no regard for costs
at all. But should it be the government
who dictates the answer to these questions?
Do we trust them that much?
There was an ad on the radio about hunger stating that one in eight Americans has problems with hunger. But we also hear frequent reports about the huge number of cases of obesity. Both of these problems could be solved if Obama stepped in and took the excess food from the overeaters and gave it to the hungry.
They could then move on to the
homeless problem. Just have the local Commissar
go around to each home and inventory the extra bedrooms. There must be a million of them with all the
empty nesters we hear about. Then just
assign the homeless to these rooms and the problem will be solved, the Obama
way.
We already know that Obama immediately put a fat tax on those addicted to cigarettes to provide free healthcare to middle class children. We hear everyday of plans for more taxes on the richest, and most productive, 5% or so of taxpayers to pay for healthcare for others. So where does this stop. Is the government going to be allowed to just redistribute everything?
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