The health care bill is heading for a vote in the House of Representatives this week. I think it’s time to call bullshit when we see it. This bill must die a brutal and horrible death, or that’s the fate our country will face. I’m going to make my case for why this bill has nothing to do with health care and everything to do with taxing you and controlling you, then you can decide if you need to call your representative or not.
Have you noticed that Democrats are calling this bill “deficit neutral”? What the fuck is that phrase? I never heard it before this bill! You’ll notice that Democrats are not saying that this bill won’t cost anything, because it most certainly will. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says the health care bill will cost taxpayers $1,200,000,000,000 over the next ten years. I put all the zeros on that because 1.2 trillion minimizes the actual number. It’s a fucking budget buster Beefanatics! Furthermore, I challenge you to find an estimate from the government that hasn’t been woefully small compared to the actual costs over time.
What “deficit neutral” means, simply defined, is that those nutsacks in Congress are going to tax the shit out of you to pay for their bill. The House bill is just shy of two thousand pages and it is stacked high with taxes on just about everything you can imagine. If you think covering the costs on $1.2 trillion is not going to affect you, then you’re a fucking idiot! It’s going to hit every productive American square in the wallet. Care to debate that? Bring it.
The much-touted “public option” is so important to socialists because it gets them one step closer to a full-fledged government control of your health care. If you enjoy the efficiency and warm-hearted care you get at the Department of Motor Vehicles, then you’re going to LOVE dealing with government bureaucracy when you have a cold. President Obama and Senator Barney “the Hutt” Frank (the Beefboy’s 2008 Nutsack of the Year Award Winner) have both admitted that the “public option” is the first step to full-fledged government takeover of the health care system. Ignore me at your peril.
Just to make sure that you know this bill has nothing to do with insuring the un-insured, the non-partisan CBO has found that the “public option” in the House health care bill will only be used by 2% of those under 65. So what exactly is the purpose of this bill? Again, it’s about control over you.
If you sincerely wanted to reform health care and cut costs to consumers you would do two things in particular. First, you would allow insurance companies to practice equally over state lines. Right now, only a handful of companies are represented in any one state. Real competition will drive prices lower (look at what competition did for auto insurance, for example). Secondly, you would restrict how much lawyers can sue doctors for, so that malpractice insurance rates weren’t sky high, and obscure duplicate procedures were not necessary to cover a doctor’s ass.
The reforms I just laid out would actually drive costs down and create less government intervention. What I just proposed is is not in the health care bill. Why? Simply because driving costs down and empowering the individual is exactly the opposite goal of the legislation! It’s about taxing you and controlling you. The House bill creates 111 new government bureaucracies. It will conservatively cost you $1.2 trillion dollars in new taxes. Pelosi’s Health Scare Bill is porn for socialists.
The true tragedy here is that we are wasting an opportunity to do real health care reform. A sincere health care reform bill would include my cost-cutting proposals and ideas like portability, transparency, electronic health care records and placing more control in the hands of the individual, instead of a faceless government bureaucracy. Some of these ideas are an afterthought in the bill and others are omitted entirely.
What we’re being offered in the way of health care reform is actually a spending orgy and a concerted effort to grow government and take power away from you and put it in the hands of politicians. If the economy was booming it would be a great way to send us into a recession; given the current economic crisis, it could destroy our way of life. Moreover, we are looking at a bill that could give Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid the power to make your most intimate decisions for you. Remember, this is just the first step in a grand scheme for government to own health care outright.
Hopefully you’re reaching for your phone to call your Representative right now. I pray it’s not too late.
