Obama is a BS artist of almost unrivaled ability (perhaps Bill Clinton can give him some competition, but no one else). And we can see it most with regards to his health care proposal.
Obama's meme is that PRIVATE SECTOR health care costs too much, and thus must be reformed.
Meanwhile, Medicare and Medicaid are ripe for reform, and are quickly bankrupting the country. But he makes no mention of them.
And, as usual, the mainstream media (Rush now calls them the government media) is silent, or worse, is trying to take out anyone who stands in Obama's way.
Quite frankly, we solved the cost issue in the 1990s. We had 4 or 5 years of zero health care inflation, thanks to HMOs. People hated them, because they told you what care you could and could not have. And people revolted as a result. Politicians, in particular, made a lot of hay about HMOs, and passed laws gutting them. Soon after, health care inflation re-ignited.
The only way to lower health care costs is to ration care. We could ration it the way we ration everything else: by consumers deciding what they want to spend their own hard earned money on. Or we can have a bureacrat ration care.
With HMOs, it was a private sector bureacrat rationing care. With Obama, no doubt, it will be a government employee. In the end, does it really make a difference? People will revolt if someone other than their doctor tells them what healthcare they can have.
More than likely, Obama will ram socialized medicine down our throats, he will fail to get ANY cost savings, and our entire health care system will be as out of control as Medicare and Medicaid. We'll go bankrupt even faster than we already are.
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Perhaps he was telling the truth when he talked about not wanting to completely socialize medicine, I don't know. I'm not a mind reader. What I personally think is that he genuinely believes what hes talking about. I think he has a big heart, but that he's being naive and unrealistic. When that door is cracked open, I truly beleive it won't be long before it is completely socialized, and that will even further bankrupt our country and harm us as a nation both in long and the short run.
Travis, what you need to know about Obama is this: he is a bullshit artist. Everything he says is bullshit. Everything. He has no motive other than to increase the agrandizement of himself, becuase his ego is that big.
I don't give him the benefit of the doubt. His aim is to increase the size and scope of the federal government, which increases his power. Nothing more, nothing less.
Seriously, if you are concerned with health care costs, you start with Medicare. It is that simple. If you don't say anything about Medicare, then you aim is something else.
If the economy is a car, Obamacare is a cinderblock. Obama has aimed the car at a cliff with all the stimulus and other spending, and he is about to throw the cinderblock on the accelerator. Over the cliff is societal bankruptcy. We are that close.
See, I agree with you on 90% of the above post, I'm just not willing to go as far to think he is purposefully trying to bankrupt the country. Maybe if some sort of hard proof comes up I"ll be on board, but I just don't think so. I think it's the same problem that all liberals have: their hearts are bigger than their brains.
Bankruptcy in and of itself is probably not his aim, no.
Look, California is bankrupt. Democrats are responsible. Did they try to bankrupt that state? No. They were in pursuit of power, and bankruptcy was the result of their reckless pursuit of power.
That's where Obama is at right now.
BTW, Obama is proposing half a trillion dollars worth of Medicare cuts over the next 10 years, and all he's going to do is cut reimbursement rates to doctors. So even fewer doctors will be able to afford to see Medicare patients.
That's "reform"? Newt Gingrich was pilloried for trying to slow the rate of growth of Medicare (which he did, for a time). Obama is doing 10 times worse than anything Newt even dreamed of doing.
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