A town hall heckler attempted to drown out Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) as she pointed out that 4,000 women gave birth in British hospital corridors due to national health care; she silenced him and fired up the crowd by explaining her vast experience in that area:
This evening, Rep. Bachmann and Mark Levin discussed what is next in the health care debate, that Barack Obama and the libs in Congress are not done ruining our system:
Hat tip to Hot Air for the video link.
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Healthcare is not about the democrats, political leaders, their futures, their legacies or their memories. What America is about is not someone else’s insurance, their house, their cars, or their lifestyle. It is about Americans, their choices, their liberty and the right that they have to determine their own destiny. When individuals’ concentrate on their own self-interest the group averages better around a higher median than nationalizing and performing under government regulations and control will ever produce; and liberty does not become compromised in the process.
Essentially the only area of our economy, which has not cost benefited from competition, is the medical industry. That is because the private sector has been directly and indirectly subsidizing the public sector for a very long time. Medical care is not a right but the unrestricted ability to care for yourself is. Socialized medicine has a track record and so does American freedom. We can look at the past and the current systems, side by side, and see what works best. The real problems with our healthcare system revolve around high costs (even that is relative to what you get) and the high costs are not because the system is not socialized but, on the contrary, because too much of it already is; this has abused costs, services and products.
Medicare has shown us that while quality care can be provided (as long as it coexists with the private sector to make up the difference) it cannot sustain itself and the debt it currently creates will consume the bulk of wages through taxes in the near future. HR3200 is an attempt to cut Medicare, not to expand it; and a whole lot of freedom goes out the door at the same time. Medicare does need to be cut and possibly eliminated, not to whom and how it currently provides for but whom it should not provide for in the future and that is where free market solutions reign supreme. Health savings accounts, similar to long-term care insurance, allowing owner participation in tailoring what they need would be placed in a real lock box and those deposits and investments can be risk secured by FDIC like policies or additional private insurance, such as provided by AIG like companies. Doing nothing is better than what is proposed (which is worse than what we currently have) but the best solutions rely on releasing the creative juices of the market where competition, based upon profit, will ultimately always drive costs down and the quality of product and service up. Needless to say tort reform and portability are additional sound components of practical free market lasting solutions.
Currently the Administration is changing the rules of the game well after the game has started because they know that they are losing the cost battles created by their own management; such mismanagement has always been primarily based upon obtaining votes, by expanding services and members, instead of sound business principles. And they will likewise mismanage any substitute as well.
America is about business. Business is the business of America. Healthcare is a business. Health providers and their products and services contributes to jobs, prosperity and growth, They do this with profit in mind and that profit is used to generate more jobs, growth and more profit which translates to better health and lifestyles for everyone. As such, like all businesses, they are injured and destroyed by the weight of government regulations and taxes. Additionally we now are talking about government and private hybrid partnerships, which could not be a worse form of enterprise in a competitive world. They are the least agile in responding to product development, cost and practical usage and only exist because of government subsidies that amount to just another form of wasteful tax dollar usage. Ultimately the pursuit of profit, regardless of its motive (profit), becomes more compassionate than the compassionate rhetoric of any politicians and the governments that they aspire to empower.
HR 3200 and copycat proposals are provided by a people that normally would be against private monopolies, possessing unfair advantages, yet they are willing to create the greatest monopoly of all time (as long as it is government run) with advantages that no other companies have. They do this in the name of a right to healthcare which, obviously, can never be a right as long as those that provide it are forced to provide it without free choice. No right can cause a negative right for others, such as the providers, and still be a right. Most offensive of all is the concept of rights to healthcare when that concept diminishes the real right to determine one’s own healthcare. Incredibly, by the process of creating artificial group rights, they are destroying real individual rights provided by God and Nature, which were never generated and owned by any government. There can never be such a thing as group rights which supersede and trump individual rights. In fact, the contract we have with government, to protect our naturally conferred individual rights, has been broken.
If liberals were serious about healthcare reform and not about the power and control they would create a pilot program to prove its value. Knowing that Romney’s MA plan appears not to be working very well, they could consider what is wrong with that, as well as what is wrong with European and Canadian socialized healthcare and fashion something different. The obvious place to implement such a system would be in D.C where they already have jurisdiction. If the system works as well as school vouchers worked in D.C., instead of killing the idea the way they did vouchers, they could arguably attempt to introduce the program to the rest of America.
Obviously such a rational approach would defeat any prospects for socialized medical care and they know it. Better to get it done with a majority in Congress that they will never see again for a very long time. Now if only they could get some RINO’s (that the media will classify as conservatives) to default and help support the (their) majority that really does not need any help… except to eventually share the blame.
I read the other day that Montel Williams wants Rep. Bachmann to kill herself. Ah, the tolerance of the left. How would Montel liked it if I said I hope he dies from MS? Liberals are so disgusting.
Eureka! Obama has his death panel czar. (I remember when Montel touted himself as a moderate.)
He should have used Montel Williams instead because he fooled me up until this point. Too bad. I liked the guy.