Democrats Hope To Pass Health Care Bill By The End Of The Year
The pathway to socialized medicine, which will crowd out private medicine, and bring about rationed medicine under the bureaucratic eye of Washington DC, has become a priority of the Obama Administration, and the president has voiced that he is determined to get the bill passed by the end of this year. The legislation regarding the bill is expected to begin in July, and debate should start in August.
Opposition to Obamacare maintains that government paid health insurance will require large tax increases, and harm the quality of medicine in the United States, while requiring the bureaucrats to ration health care, thus limiting the care patients will have access to. The industry will fall under governmentally micro-managed care which will eventually lead to procedures being denied because of the viability of the patient. Opponents to government-run health care also contend that the "free" health care insinuation will create long waiting lists for procedures and overcrowded waiting rooms. Publicly financed health systems worldwide have failed to show the ability to control health care costs, leading to a reduction in the financing of vital services. Individual choice will be eliminated, and another nail will be driven into the coffin of liberty.
Examples of problems with universal health systems include the tale of a Surrey woman last year on holiday in California in need of emergency surgery after her appendix burst, but she couldn't go home to Canada due to a lack of available hospital beds; in Massachusetts an attempt on a universal health care program wound up running several hundred million dollars over budget; in Hawaii a universal child health care program failed only seven months after it launched.
Is private health insurance a problem in this nation? Of course it is. Placing a third party between patient and provider, while encouraging patients to use insurance for every sniffle and cough, has driven up prices, and damaged the industry by removing competition and the patient-provider relationship. Patients, knowing insurance will pay the bill, are no longer willing to shop around, so competition and the quality of services offered by the industry have deteriorated as the costs have risen to accomodate the deep pockets of the insurance companies. Government regulations have also required insurance companies to follow governmental design, and have eliminated the ability of insurance companies to offer products privately to consumers with designs tailor fit for each individual consumer. Attempting to fix the ailing system with government intrusion, however, is not only not the best answer, but will ultimately remove the last remnants of individual choice, and will diminish the private part of the industry to the point of extinction.
Despite the evidence that a system run by the government is doomed to fail, President Barack Obama, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the gang of liberal Democrats, have pledged to bring about Government-paid health care by the end of the year, despite the cost during an economic downturn, and the promise to destroy the private industry's hundreds of thousands of jobs. The drive for cramming the system into place before the end of the year is motivated by power, and the knowledge that if the Democrats don't do this quickly, they may not get another chance.
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Obama: ‘Stars Are Aligned’ This Year for Health Care - The New York Times
Ready for Rationing? - Net Right Nation
Woman waits in California hospital for a bed to open up here - All News Radio News 1130
Massachusetts suffering fallout from universal health care program - One News Now
GOP's Coburn: Obama's Healthcare Will Devastate Seniors - NewsMax
A Frightening Prospect - Get Liberty
The Public Plan Threat to Accessible Health Care - The Heritage Foundation
Obamacare to Squeeze Private Insurance - TownHall
Universal Obamacare: Will It Bankrupt America? - NewsMax
In The Shadow of Socialized Medicine - GM Roper
Hawaii Ends Universal Child Health Care 7 Months After Start - Fox News
Obama Says Health-Care Plan Must Get Passed This Year - Bloomberg
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