Healthcare Bill: Why defeat is needed
Heath Suddleson guests today with his usual clear thinking.
Today he writes:
Why the Obama/Reid/Pelosi Healthcare Bill should be defeated. Stated in the simplest of terms.
There are about 3.5 million homeless people in the US. That’s about 1% of our population. Would you give up your home and live in government controlled housing so that everyone can have a home?
There are about 30 million uninsured in the US. That’s about 10% of our population. The Democrats are asking us to give up our health care system so that everyone can have government controlled health care. There are more uninsured by choice than homeless by choice.
There are two categories of Americans. Those who produce taxes and those who consume them. Those who derive income from private sector companies produce taxes. Those who work for the government consume taxes. Even if they pay personal income taxes, the funding for their salary is based on the payment of taxes from private industry. The health care plan seeks to turn 1/6th of our economy from tax producing to tax consuming, and then the costs are going to increase. What impact do you think that is going to produce?
Lastly, to pass this into law, the Democrats are trying to find every way to short cut and avoid our legislative processes. How would the liberals react if the Republicans were doing this to outlaw gay marriage or ban abortions nationwide? They would freak out, and so would I, because the process is more important than the legislation being passed. The process is what guarantees that our society operates properly. The subversion of the process to pass laws that would not pass without popular support is the means by which dictators seize control of a society before the society knows what has happened. Don’t let the process be abandoned for this or any other issue.
Health care is already available to everyone who needs care through clinics and hospitals. Improvements can be made to the current system without turning over our health care to those who have already bankrupted Medicare and Social Security. With less than 10% of the population truly uninsured, we do not have a health care crisis, but we will have a crisis if this legislation passes.
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