A word on Health Care Reform |
| Posted by The Masked Crusader (cschalk) on Mar 23 2010 |
| The Masked Blog >> Politics |
I want to clear up a few things for the American people about this health care reform. A lot of the democrat, liberal citizens of this country think the proposed reform is great and that it will help the country. While I agree that a reform is necessary, the proposed reform is incorrect, and I'll give you reasons and examples of misconceptions as to why.
First, we live in America, The land of the Free. Never before has there been a law on the books where there is a penalty for NOT doing something. Every law before the health care reform has affixed a penalty on actually committing an action. A murder is penalized for killing someone, if you don't want to suffer the penalty, don't kill. A police officer will write you a ticket for speeding, you don't want the ticket, don't speed. Never before has a law said "If you don't buy an orange, we'll cut your knees off" but the health care reform does! It penalized an American for NOT purchasing health care. What are the penalties? An annual $695 fee, plus a percentage of your annual earnings as well as the IRS now has abilities to garnish wages, withhold returns and the like. All penalties for NOT doing something. They've taken away your freedom, and isn't that what this country is built upon, Freedom?!? Even a unemployed, homeless beggar is penalized for not buying health care. He is penalized with the same fees as others, except he's given credits to pay the fees because he is poor.
Another misconception is that everyone gets healthcare, a blanket coverage which allows everyone to just walk into a clinic and be seen. This is not the case. The universal policy is one of last resort. As mentioned above, you must purchase your own policy, and if you cannot purchase a policy on your own, then you can pay the penalty and premiums for the gov't policy. Then you can be seen. In so doing, Medicare and Medicaid will suffer because instead of these programs, the sick and afflicted will be under the Universal policy. So, the liberals who are on medicare and think this will help you, you are gravely mistaken.
Reform will bring prices down! - Wrong! Have you ever taken an Economics class? If not, there is a principle in Economics that's called Supply and Demand. If the supply is low and the demand is high, prices go up. If the supply is high and the demand is low the prices go down, and if they are both high or low, prices generally remain the same. How does this apply to Health Care Reform and Insurance Premiums? Listen to this little allegory:
You are one of 10 people selling oranges in a farmer's market. Only oranges are available, nothing else. Everyone set's their prices to $1 an orange. Passers by, if they feel the need, buy an orange and you make a living. Every now and again, one of the sellers will get a good batch and mark the price up because the orange is extra ripe and tasty. As the day wears on, your supply diminishes and you go home.
This goes on every day until one day when a man in a black suit shows up and with a box of oranges and a gun. He tells everyone that they must purchase an orange or be shot in the leg. If they don't purchase an orange from you for a $1, they can buy a wrinkled old one from him for $3. Suddenly, there are thousands of people forced into buying oranges that they don't want, but your supply hasn't changed.
You know this rush is coming again tomorrow and you know the black suit man is charging $3 for an orange, so you get with the other orange sellers and jack your prices up to $2.95 since it'll still be cheaper than the black suit man's oranges. Your prices have just tripled, and people are forced to buy.
This may sound silly, but it's what the Health Care Reform demands. The oranges are Insurance Policies, the sellers are the Insurance Companies, the black suit man is the government and the bullet is the penalty for not buying a policy. Did you see what happened to the price of the oranges (the insurance policies)? they all went up because it is now compulsory to purchase an orange. It's like a monopoly that everyone can participate in. Sure there's still competition, but their prices only have to remain below the government's set price for their policy. Are you starting to see that this is a bad thing?
My final point in this discussion is the Abortion part of the Health Care reform: Abortions are paid for by tax-payer money. I have a real problem with abortions for a lot of reasons, but the biggest is that it is murder. Murder is defined as "the deliberate and illegal killing of a person". What is a person? Someone who has been born or can a fetus still be a person. My daughter was born at 25 weeks gestation and is still alive today. She was a person at 25 weeks, regardless if she remained in the womb or not. A better definition of Murder is the "intentional stopping of the heart of a human being, no matter the age." If you screwed up and got pregnant, killing that child is not a viable answer. There are people on adoption lists who want children. There are mothers out there that desperately want kids, but can't have any of her own. Your selfish decision to murder your unborn child is not only hurting you and your child, it is also hurting the thousands of adults who want kids, but cannot have any.
The battle that Republicans have with the bill is not all about the health care part of it. I am totally in favor of a reform of the health care industry. Put pricing caps in place, regulate premiums, do something, but making a broken system compulsory for the public is not the answer. The biggest pain is that your freedom has just been robbed from you. You now cannot make a decision on your own, but have to yield your health and your body to the government. Do you like how the DMV runs? Do you like the 4 hour wait for a renewed driver license? How about the social security office where you have to wait 4 hours just to fill out a tiny application to get your card reprinted. With universal health care, this is what doctor offices and emergency rooms will be, long queues of people who desperately need help, but just can't get it because the whole system is run by the government.
Please think about it when you vote this November. Together we can repeal this heinous bill and develop one that works without taking away America's freedoms which we hold so dear. It's not so much about Health Care anymore, it's about our freedoms in the Land of Liberty!
Last changed: Mar 29 2010 at 7:52 AM
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