The latest figure is 48,000,000. Not dollars. Not the unemployed. Not the deficit. 48,000,000 Americans who are uninsured. No medical insurance. Now, isn’t that terrible? Doesn’t it give one nightmares? Funny, but I can sleep at night in spite of the figure. Obama and his Democrat stooges plus probably a lot of Republicans also, will take care of that pretty quickly, I am sure. They’ve been trying for decades. We’ll all wake up one morning and find that everyone has free medical care. After all, how can the Democrats and lots of Republicans stay in those offices, unless they vote to give everyone free medical care? They’ll do it, as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow. The fiction is that when government runs things, they will be cheap and efficient. The exact opposite happens to be true.
In spite of the hideous repercussions, and economic disaster, they’ll vote for it. Stop and think about it for a minute: First of all, when something’s ’free,’ everyone will want all they can get. That’s why the budget of fire departments has gone through the roof. They forcibly bought out all the for profit ambulance companies, and made it ’public medicine.’ Happened right here in my town too, and the fire department budget more than tripled. Do they collect for all those red ambulances, with sirens screaming, rushing here and there? Of course not! Us taxpayers pay for all ’public medicine.’ If there is a fender-bender, here comes the public medicine wagon, on my tab. Offer anything ’free,’ or paid by the taxpayers, and the use is constant, and to the limit of available services.
Yesterday, in talking to doctors, Obama tried to swoon them with complacent gibberish that he wasn’t talking about ’socialized medicine,’ but that’s exactly what he is talking about. He, and his Democrats, want medicine free to everyone, on my tab, and we all know it. Even his so-called ’plan,’ according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), will cost a trillion dollars a year. He says he’ll pay for it with ’efficiency and fewer tests.’ Nonsense, but that’s not the main point here, which I haven’t (as usual) heard anyone talk about.
With 48 million new partakers of free medicine, may I ask who will take care of them? Currently, most doctors are booked to their absolute limit, and I’ll guarantee you that if the ’plan’ is put into operation, thousands will conveniently retire. As it is, many docs won’t take Medicare and Medicaid patients, because the pay is so bad. Currently, hospitals are going broke because of all the freebies they must accept. Where are the hospitals who will care for 48 million more patients? I know a chiropractor who will take no insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid patients, as he doesn’t want to hire one or two to do the paperwork, and then get underpaid anyway.
What’s happened to the health care system already, thanks to politicians who needed the votes to stay in office, has been to virtually destroy it. If public medicine for the elderly hadn’t been legislated in the first place, we’d have thousands fewer nursing homes, far more responsible people, and a healthy system, which we had before public medicine. If hospitals weren’t forced to treat everyone freely, there’d be more hospitals and healthier ones that are left. “Public” anything, be it rest rooms, housing, or anything else, are not desirable, plus are very expensive. All the bailouts have been a total waste of fading dollars.
Every single ’plan,’ promulgated by the D.C. Gang, no matter what, has resulted in disaster and unbelievable costs, cloaked under the mask of ’humanity,’ ’help the poor,’ or other such nonsense. The way to help the poor is to give them a job. The way to help the poor is to close the borders. The way to help the poor is to allow them to make their own way or die, which is what they always did before government intervention. Now, they are not only poor, but lazy and criminal, we are over run with them, and they have bankrupted us. The process will continue till we are a third world nation, which we are approaching as I write this.
Obama’s economic knowledge is pitiful, or he is literally trying to make us into a communistic, socialistic nation. The more government there is, the less we will prosper. The higher taxes there are, the less we will prosper. The more dollars that are printed, the less we will prosper. Prosperity does not come from huge government. Good health, happiness, and prosperity, comes from persons caring for themselves and depending on themselves, their parents, and church maybe, but not government or its handouts.