I have been searching for the right way to express how I feel about the current debate about the “reform” that Congress has on the table and I may have struck gold. Both sides of the issue are missing the point and not using any common sense. For starters, this bill that is proposed in the House of Representatives is not reform, it is remaking the health care system. The problems with the models that our system is proposed to be shaped in are not appealing. Hence why we have people who come to the U.S. from overseas to get elective procedures done. Elective, meaning not life threatening. Reform would make it better and if you think that this is going to be better, you need to think for yourself, do the research and use some common sense.

I am sure this article will be reported to the new White House thought police. Ya, there is an email address that the White House wants people to report any “disinformation”(disagreement) about health care to. (flag at whitehouse.gov) I encourage any of you who read this to research the facts for yourself. If I am wrong, report me. I expect to be reported anyways, even though there is evidence that policy may be illegal.

At the heart of the health care bill is the debate over the so called “single payer” system. This is meaning that the government would be the only way to get health coverage. We keep hearing the White House press release every day saying that Americans will continue to have a choice in health care coverage. How is that so? It contradicts everything that they have said in the past about it. Right about now you are probably thinking that I should give some sort of proof so I searched YouTube for “Obama Single Payer Health Care” and came up with this. This shows clips over a period of time from not only Obama but several other Democrats as well. You hear that eventually there will be a single payer system. Why and how?

The why is very simple. Control. If the federal government has control, you do not have to think for yourself. As a matter of fact, you have no choice in what Dr. to see, where you go to get your health care or options for treatment. Instead there is a bureaucrat or bureaucratic board that will make that decision for you. This is something that the left and liberals tend to want, even though they want the choice to have an abortion because it is their body. If you want to have the choice of how your body is taken care of, why would you not want a choice of the insurance provider?

That’s not the only hypocrisy of the left though. No, it seems that conservatives are being called anything from “angry mobs” to “Nazis”. This is for standing up and disagreeing with the ruling party. Because some people are angry that the single payer health care is being jammed down our throats by Obama and the Democrats it is somehow now not a good thing to disagree with the President? I seem to remember him telling his supporters to argue with them(Independents and Republicans) and get in their face. Now that Obama won the election, he wants everyone who disagrees with the government plan to shut up? Hypocritical indeed. As far as Nazis goes, that is a reference to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi saying that the protesters opposed to single payer health care carry swastikas to town hall meetings. Funny how Nazism was originally the practice of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Also note that she says that the opposition to the health care bill is not a grass roots movement, but astroturf. The meaning behind that is that it is not of the people but corporations.

Look, the Democrats can’t even defend their position on the health care bill. Barbara Boxer had to say that those opposed to the bill want to hurt the president. They attack Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity and make an argument that Fox News is behind the opposition because Republicans and “right wing extremists” don’t care about the poor and will never support anything the Democrats propose. The problem with their argument is that they don’t bother to listen to conservative views or take any other points of view. Instead, they put together the worst pieces of legislation and then say that Republicans won’t work with them and have no new ideas.

The obvious ways to cut costs immediately have not been taken by the Democrats because they want power and control. They will not allow insurance to be sold across state lines, they will not allow caps on malpractice like like some states do.

President Obama says he is opening the door to competition by allowing the government to offer a plan. What he doesn’t tell you is how he will pay for the plan, or that the best way to have competition is to let the free market allow private companies to compete. Whichever company has the lowest price and or best value will force the others to lower prices and offer better services. It works in other markets, why not health care? President Obama has not ruled out taxing health care benefits given to employees by a private employer as income, even though during the 2008 presidential campaign he chided John McCain for suggesting it. If the Democrats get their way, wouldn’t it be a smart business decision to go with the government health care instead of a private company? Wouldn’t employees rather not be taxed more?

This has to be one of the worst health care plans I have seen and the idea that the government can run health care any better than they have with Medicare, Social Security or any other government program is simply ludicrous. Even Ron Paul, (R) TX, says that the government should get out of the health care business. He is definitely right about one thing, costs are always higher than predicted. How do you think a government that can print its own money can stick to a budget? Inflationary pressure is going to be a problem at some point.

I am going to go through the health care bill this coming week in several parts so you can be informed. I encourage you to read it for yourself. It can be found here.

While you are at it, discuss the health care bill and debate with us on the Phatooine.net message boards.

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