All we can hope to do presently is petition our idiot RINO representatives who are so well versed at panderpolitics that many are lifers. IF conservatives can control the congress in 2010 then there is a fighting chance we can stop this for now. However, I’m afraid government controlled health care will happen precisely because of panderpolitics.

Unless we can put forth a counter proposal, different from the repackaged government system that Heritage Foundation came up with, and articulate it well enough for the mind-numbed American idiots drunk on media tea to understand we will have government run health care. I am reconstructing my retirement portfolio to deal with this so I can at least have my own insurance in old age.

I am amazed at the proposal to cut the Medicare reimbursements to the doctors, in an effort toward curbing the soaring medical costs. The thinking is that by reducing the reimbursement, the doctors will be forced to be more efficient in delivering their care. How horribly distorted is the perception of the President and the Congressional Democrats! This is a complete reversal of cause and effect. You don’t cut costs to compel efficiency; you improve efficiency to cut costs.

I can understand how the political players can get co-opted into the power systems and power plays of Washington D.C. Overwhelming lure of power, and preserving that power at all costs, and so forth. But this is just rank idiocy.

They have not noticed how more and more doctors are refusing to take on new Medicare patients, mostly because the current reimbursements are too low; it not “cost-effective” to the doctors. They have not noticed how these other countries’ single-payer / government-payer models have an alarming shortage of doctors, because it is just not “cost-effective” to practice medicine for many potential practitioners.

Every day you see stories about how some insurance company denies needed coverage to someone. Worse yet is when your claim is denied, or simply lost. The problems is bureaucracy which certainly does not imply that a government run plan will be any better. The other problem is the disincentive to pay because they would rather keep the money. I am not sure a government plan would differ here either. When you have a system where the payor has a say in what gets paid you will always have rationing.

but likely state funded and even mandated abortions–or do you actually thin the state is going to pick up the tab for a high-risk pregnancy when an early abortion costs less than 2k??

They tell all sorts of inacurate tales of how successful health care by gov’t is in Europe. What they don’t say is that if you need real doctor treatment for say cancer or heart surgery, it’s rationed or not available at all. It is well known that Canadians regularly come to the U.S. for medical care. I really believe this is just one more big movement by socialists to destroy capitalism. The state news agencies (ABC CBS NBC, etc) are doing everything to help Obama achieve this. It is scary to think that even if BHO is only a one term president, it won’t matter because we will be left in such shambles we won’t be able to undo it.

in order to cause the demise of enough of those eligible for Social Security and Medicare so they can say they saved those programs. They clearly have no respect for life at it’s beginning; it’s a short step from there to no respect for life at it’s end. God help us.