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Obama fans, please address this one narrow issue
Why are you not concerned about the problems to be created by this National Health Insurance Exchange?
I'm not making it up. Here's the link: http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issue...reFullPlan.pdf Quote:
Does anybody remember when Medicare was created? Has anybody researched the representations made during that debate? Has anybody here dealt with the Department of HHS? Who here is naive enough to believe this organization will be wonderful? Who here that routinely deals with government agencies finds them to be well-run, efficient and friendly? Has anybody ever had to work with the SSA on disability issues? Is that a fun and efficient experience? Yes I'm sounding like a broken record, but is there not one soul who is concerned about the mess to be created with yet another bureaucracy? And for you organizational behavioral types, what are the general rules of operations for bureaucracy regarding funding and staffing? If you know the answers, you'll see why it ties into my question immediately above.
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In the spirit of Mike, channeling his energy I respond to my own post.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj16n3-3.html Yes it's from the Cato Institute, so Cali, you can call your cardiologist for your medicine, but it does review some of the historical underpinnings of Medicare.
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For the same reason I don't think Miss Universe will really help to bring about world peace.
Our healthcare system will remain largely they way that it is...and the way that is has almost always been. Stop worrying, you won't have to sit in the same waiting room with poor people and minorities anytime soon.
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I'll be giving you a big FU, when it happens. Note an analogy here, Quote:
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I'll be waiting for your call.
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Assume, for one moment, your hero Obama, actually enacts this monstrosity, do you have no concerns?
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But maybe that is a Dem strategy. Given Cali's assessment of the Dem Congress, I wonder if winning is the only thing that Dems care about.
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Archaea, obviously it would take a while to do this issue justice. But here's the thing: you are not a consumer of health care. You pay for access to care that you rarely, if ever, seek. So I think you may fail to recognize the extent to which we already have a health care bureaucracy, and a rather expensive and ineffective one at that. |
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The problem is that if the Dems win this time, they can cause some serious damage with three radicals in the key positions.
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The reality of the matter is that our healthcare system will not undergo such a crazy overhaul. I am even more emboldened by the recent failure of a very similar proposal. Obama is not my hero, nor do I think he is the right answer on all issues. I just think he is the best choice overall given the choices in front of us. No more, no less. Sometimes my wife will express concern over whether our kids will be good kids in high school...grades, obedience, etc...currently they are 3 years old. I have too much to worry about today than to fret about all the negatives that may happen way down the road. And truthfully....the things I value most in life....my family, the Church, Tex's celibacy......none of those things are impacted by universal healthcare, taxes, the price of gas, etc. Almost all your concerns seem to boil down to money....the cost of entitlements that will come out of your pocket via taxes. I dont share your concern, I guess.
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