Everyone in America knows that our Democrat President and Congress will do almost anything to inflict on Americans a gov't health care system that they themselves wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole. (Maybe that's why they can't read the bills circulating the House and Senate--who can read fine print at a distance of 10 feet?)If the President and his Democrat minions in Congress get their way, people who are not members of a Congressionally defined privileged class will be forced to slog it out in a broken and broke health care system that will get poorer and more mismanaged every minute.
Meanwhile, the President, Congress, the President's 32 czars, other federal employees, community organizers, and--I'm taking a wild guess here--Harvard professors and SEIU members will receive health care for the privileged, paid for by the non-privileged, of course.
What a deal!
It is an inherently unfair deal, of course, and, if there's anything that rubs Americans the wrong way, it is unreasonable, inconsiderate, and cowardly unfairness.
Americans as a people admire individuals who take responsibility personally and who are courageous and generous, and no day passes without extraordinary examples of American bias toward courageous exercise of responsibility, whether it be bystanders rescuing a mom and her kids from a burning SUV or a group of airline passengers storming the cockpit after terrorists murdered the pilot and other crew members.
Separate-but-unequal health care mandated by Congress under intense political pressure by the President also is a violation of responsible leadership.
By long-held tradition and even law, the Captain of a sinking ship is required to be the last person aboard to abandon ship, with first dibs on the life rafts going to the weakest, not the strongest: the children and the elderly and their (traditionally female) caregivers. Nor is the Captain of the Ship of State expected to stand on the ship's bridge and proclaim (with a practiced, self-indulgent smile) that, because he's the powerful, the elevated Captain, he of course is expected to face the least danger, while the weakest of the society, that is, the elderly, the disabled, and the chronically ill, will be given the poorest chance of survival.
Yet we've witnessed our nation's President boast about his 24/7 on-call private physician as part of his nationally televised explanation of why vibrant elderly women should get pills instead of major surgery.
Separate and more-than-equal, it now is abundantly apparent, is the station of those elected to the highest positions of responsibility in government. Not only are privileged corporations too big to fail, but so are privileged senators and representatives, czars, presidents and their advisors, and federal bean counters.
And, while provisions of H.R. 3200 will give the federal bean counters real-time unlimited free access into the financial accounts of most everybody, the Health Care Privileged, because they are exempt from Gov't Care, will be spared that indignity and inconvenience. (See pp. 57-58 of H.R. 3200.)
Interesting. Uncle Sam will be in your pockets 24/7, electronically, real time, unless you work for Uncle Sam.
Very interesting.
They watch our pockets, but nobody watches their pockets.
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Ichthyological curiosity of the day:
Pocket fish.
An iPod application that makes it possible to play with animated fish.
A small glimmer of hope has emerged. According to The Hill the Senate will drop the end-of-life provisions from their bill.
ReplyDeleteBut your post finely illustrates that there continues to be unacceptable aspects in this monster "reform" bill.
We can't stop pushing, and making our voices heard until the unfair public option is taken out, as well as the government's access to our bank accounts, etc.
I've called all 3 of my congressmen. I urge all others to do the same. Be polite. Be calm. Don't yell. Respect the office. But be HEARD! WE CAN make a difference!
Thank you, Yukio.
ReplyDeleteThere are dangers in this bill not only to the elderly, but also to disabled people in general and, most sickenly, to disabled children.
I don't expect the worst ramifications of the proposed Gov't health care to show up right away because the American people won't stand for it, but once the legal and philosophical foundations have been built, we are threatened with a world of hurt.
William Jacobson pointed out recently that people who are behind this bill because they trust the current administration ought to think about what kind of power it would put into the hands of a future administration that they don't trust.
Ann Coulter offered a wry comment about the "Death Panel" to illustrate this very point. She said (I'm quoting from memory) "Death Panel? Do I get to be on it? If I can, then I'm in favor."
I'm reading the Senate HELP Committee's version of the bill (615 pages) right now and it is a monster. Americans can't sit back and just let it pass in the current form, even if doesn't have some of the worst aspects of the earlier House bill. We can't back down on this one.
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