POTUS Rushing Health Care Plan Seems Fishy

Does it seem fishy to anyone else that President Obama is pressuring Congress to come up with a health care plan quickly?  It becomes even more fishy if he’s only working with Democrats and not making health care a bipartisan issue.

According to Jim Angle from Fox News,

“President Obama  insists that any new health care plan will be paid for and will not add to the deficit.  But Republicans are suspicious, in part because Obama has been working only with Democrats, even meeting with them exclusively just before he left on his overseas trip.”

If they’ve got a good plan, why not just come out with it and tell us all about.  If he’s got an answer, I’m all ears… but I don’t think they have a viable solution and that’s what’s got me worried.

It seems to me that POTUS is going off half-cocked like he did with closing GITMO, throwing money at the banks, CIA memos, and bailing out GM just to force them into bankrupcy anyway.

In my line of work we would call that Ready, Fire, Aim.

Although in Obama’s case, I would probably call it Aim, Fire, Ready because once he get’s something in his sights he seems to consistently start “fixing” it before he has a viable solution on how to reasonably fix it.

I’m really worried that the Aim, Fire, Ready strategy will, in fact, be applied to health care.  If that does happen, then we’re all going to end up paying a lot for an even more defunct system than we have now.

1.  Doctors won’t make enough money to pay their own insurance, let alone support their families, because Uncle Sam will control how much they are paid for their services.

2.  Drug companies will stop researching new drugs and treatments because they will never be able to recoup their research expenses in a government controlled system.  The same is true for new medical equipment.

3.  Waiting lists for the most basic treatment may be months because

• There will be fewer doctors and health care staff (The best and brightest will find better professions.)
• There will be fewer facilities because the government has to build and maintain them.
• When people aren’t paying for their own care, they will seek health care when it’s unnecessary.

4.  Every procedure or test that your doctor thinks you need in order to diagnose you condition will undergo a cost-benefit analysis be a third party bureaucrat.  That means your doctor doesn’t decide your care — some geek in an office cubicle does.  The geek’s job is to save Uncle Sam money whenever possible, not to make sure you get the tests and treatments you need.

I’ve been exposed to the national health care systems in other countries and it stinks.

I lived many years without any health care when I was a young adult and it just wasn’t that big of a deal.  When I needed more extensive care and I couldn’t pay for it, which has happened to me twice in my life, kind doctors took my case pro bono and I still got the care I needed.  That’s called charity, and I never forgot that I got a hand up when I needed it.

In fact, I would say that it made me more motivated to stand on my own two feet so that I wouldn’t have to rely on the charity of others again.

But state mandated charity is wrong.

I venture to guess that the best health care system that America could adopt would be to completely sever the relationship between the government and the health care industry.

Let the market regulate health care.

Then take it a step further and create various charity organizations to help pay for patients who need help.  You see this kind of thing all the time for catastrophic illnesses in charities such as St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or Kosair Children’s Hospital.  These charities know what they’re doing and they manage their system very well without Uncle Sam getting involved.

And just think about how much money it would save Americans if we didn’t have to pay for any type of health care!

But, back to the fishy part of the story…

Why would President Obama be in such a hurry to reform health care, especially when they don’t have a plan yet, if it were the right thing for the country?

Doesn’t he think we, the people, would recognize a good thing if we saw it?

I think he’s trying to pull a fast one before we realize what’s happened.

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