Government Health Care is Rationed Health Care!

If the government runs health care, it will ration it. Bureaucrats will set the quantity and price of care, limiting what can be consumed. This is also known as a command economy.

For those of you not familiar with command economies, they currently exist in Cuba, China, and North Korea. Command economies for health care exist in most of Western Europe, Japan, many other states.

If much of the developed world relies on a system of government-owned and operated health insurance/delivery, why shouldn't the US?

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Simply stated, the US is the most demand-driven economy in the world. The understanding of liberty and personal freedom in the US means citizens spend their money on the goods and services they demand, in the quantities they demand, with the government butting out. While this statement isn't 100% accurate, it is pretty close.

In 2009, most US citizens have health insurance, and most are satisfied with it. There is a dispute about how many residents don't have health insurance, yet US law requires equal treatment of all patients, regardless of the ability to pay.

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Americans recoil, rightly, when they read about rationed care in Canada, namely this story out of the Vancouver Sun:

Vancouver Coastal — which oversees the budget for Vancouver General and St. Paul’s hospitals, among other health-care facilities — is looking to close nearly a quarter of its operating rooms starting in September and to cut 6,250 surgeries, including 24 per cent of cases scheduled from September to March and 10 per cent of all medically necessary elective procedures this fiscal year.

So, if you were one of the 6,250 cases to have waited for surgery between September '09 and March '10, well, sorry about that. Perhaps you should get in your car and drive to Seattle and get the surgery you need tomorrow. While I am not going to relate every horror story from socialized medicine, such as the case of the women delivering on a sidewalk due to no ambulance, or the case of Oregon paying for assisted suicide, but not cancer treatment, rather, it is to highlight the loss of liberty in socialized medicine.

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As I have stated above, in socialized medicine, the government, who delivers the service, also sets the quantity to be consumed, and must pay for it. Government will set the budget based on political constraints, and not on the medical needs of individuals. Government also becomes free to regulate other elements of people's lives in the name of "health care." In short, socialized medicine is overwhelming regulation of human behavior and destruction of personal liberty.

To help you better understand this point of view, let late President Ronald Reagan explain it to you. This speech, given in 1961, is critical to understanding what is at stake in today's socialized medicine debate.

It's Good to Be the King

When it comes to socialized medicine, President Teleprompter will be using private doctors, thank you very much.

Although I didn't watch the Obamacare infomercial on ABC, I did read some incredibly elitist statements by the Dear Leader on abc.com. Great fares to India on Air France!

Here is the relevant quotation:

"Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise not to seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he's proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get. The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if "it's my family member, if it's my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care. "

OK, so the rest of us would suffer under Peasant Care, while the elites enjoy the best treatment. Boy, that sounds strangely similar to dictatorships of yore, or the IRS special treatment of Charlie Rangel and Timothy Geithnerof! Compare Long Term Care Insurance Quotes and Save!

Here is the proof that President Teleprompter has absolutely no clue how government competing with private business will destroy private business.

"The president rebuffed that, arguing that "we can set up a public option where they're collecting premiums just like any private insurer and doctors can collect rates," but because the public plan will have lower administrative costs "we can keep them [private insurance companies] honest."

Isn't it nice that he believes private insurance is dishonest? Funny how he also thinks a government-run program will have lower administrative costs. That is hilarious! Perhaps my tin foil hat is on just a little too tight, but perhaps his plan is to have socialized medicine, and this is just the first step to run out private insurance. Cheap? No. 100% Free. Trade stocks for free on Zecco.com. The Free Trading Community. www.zecco.com

Dear readers, if you wish to stop this free fall into socialized medicine, you better call your elected representatives today and register your complaints. You should also consider voicing your opposition to this cap and trade nonsense.

Tax and Spend is not Change

I warned you, Obama wants to spend like a drunken sailor and tax like crazy.

First, the $787 billion "Stimulus" package, and now the Democrats want to spend another $401 billion, with Obama wanting taxpayers to bail out everything from mice to McMansion-owning bus drivers.

How does he and the Congress propose to pay for this massive redistribution scheme? The simple answer since Karl Marx is to tax "the rich." While there is great speculation as to who "the rich" really are, I will stick with some basic facts.

Anybody who is currently in the 36% federal income tax bracket will now be taxed at 39.6% at the expiration of the "Bush" tax cut. Maybe that's too broad of a group so let's look at a more discrete set of folks.

According to the Wall Street Journal (really read this article, its worth it),

Roughly 3.8 million filers had adjusted gross incomes above $200,000 in 2006. (That's about 7% of all returns; the data aren't broken down at the $250,000 point.) These people paid about $522 billion in income taxes, or roughly 62% of all federal individual income receipts. The richest 1% -- about 1.65 million filers making above $388,806 -- paid some $408 billion, or 39.9% of all income tax revenues, while earning about 22% of all reported U.S. income.

Did you get that? The top 2% pay 62% of ALL federal individual income tax. I think that is more than their fair share, especially since they don't get additional services. Further, the top 50% pay over 96% of individual income tax. So, according to John Edwards, we really do have two Americas, those who pay income tax, and those who consume it through government benefits.

Just in case you didn't think you were paying enough, Obama wants to nationalize health care. Haven't we learned enough from the United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada that government health care is not only an atrocious waste of money, but also leads to poorer care??

Citizens and taxpayers of the United States, now is the time to contact your representatives in Congress and demand they stop wasting your money. These massive, and I mean more massive than we have ever seen, deficits spell hyperinflation. That is bad for everybody. Also demand that as a taxpayer, you don't want your taxes funding the 9000 earmarks in the Democrats new budget. In case you support these things, and are in the top 50% of taxpayers, get used to socialism and a declining standard of living, as that is what is happening.

Wake up America! Its happening right in front of your eyes!!