My brother sent out an e-mail about taking the 10th Amendment option with the new health care plan in my home state of Virginia. Basically he was asking us to support a state bill that would exclude Virginia from Obamacare, if passed.
He sent it to a bunch of people and one person responded with a very long response in support of government health care. Unfortunately, I don’t want to bore you all with the whole thing, but I’d like to respond to some the highlights:
Regulation is not a bad thing. There’s a line that shouldn’t be crossed – don’t get me wrong. But this isn’t that line. American lives should not be part of that line. It’s funny, the second that congress starts tinkering with Credit Card companies and the amount of interest they’re allowed to charge customers – I don’t think I’ve ever heard from anyone: “Oh my! Isn’t it awful that Congress is mandating limits on how much interest credit card companies can charge us?!!?! 30% Interest rates aren’t high enough. I think credit card companies should be able to charge whatever they want – whenever they want – and be able to change their rules and “policies” along the way too!!” … … …No-No. I’ve never heard anything like that from anybody. Which makes pretty good sense I think. …The banking industry, though flawed, has been regulated for as long as anyone can remember. Why shouldn’t health care be regulated to ensure coverage? Look at the FDIC (Federal Deposit INSURANCE Corporation ). If your bank closes – you’re insured for the $$$ in your account up to certain limits. It seems that Americans are all aboard the Regulation-Express to lower their credit card interest rates and make sure that their money is at their bank for withdraw when they actually go to withdraw it. That’s regulation. But, when we talk about other people’s lives… and health care along with Insurance, regulation is off limits?
If you had any sense at all, you’d know that it is because of agencies like the FDIC that allow the banks to overcharge customers and practice fraction reserve banking. If you had any grain of common sense, you’d also know that you don’t have to have a credit card. I don’t and I am proud of this simple fact. Oh, and the FDIC is flat broke, so good luck putting your hope in that agency.
Rescue, fire, police, transportation departments that make and maintain our roads, the postal service, education … are all regulated and controlled by the government, We the People.
Typical Statist tactic by comparing services that we all enjoy at the local level with a national health plan. The sad fact is that the free market has been doing a pretty good job so far as poll after poll finds 70+% of Americans satisfied with their health care plan. Did this guy ever think that the services mentioned could also be provided in the free market as well and that there are free market options that are denied to Americans by law?
Quickly look at Medicare; it’s über successful. Underfunded – but significantly triumphant. The American Medical Association (AMA) and even AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), both historically raging opponents of health care reform, are in support of a public option. That should mean something. It should mean a lot!
Health care reform would create desperately needed competition and finally allow the insurance companies to relinquish control of their monopolization strongholds that has plagued our nation for far too long.
No, Medicare is a failure and going bankrupt. That’s because the generation that needs it aborted millions of potential workers and placed millions more on welfare programs. There are trillions of unpaid liabilities in Medicare funds for future generations that will go unpaid. Oh and did I mention that Medicare nursing homes suck balls?
Here are three questions for you… Where and what is the republican plan for health care reform? Every poll in existence shows American support for some version of reform and now more than not – support a public option. Second: For all of the Americans who have recently lost their jobs, should they be denied Unemployment Benefits to keep their families fed, clothed, and sheltered? Ugh-Oh! That’s a “government run” plan!! Finally, currently there is an age trigger at 65. When you turn 65 years old - why is it then OK to have government provided health care, but not before?? We ensure health protection for retired seniors but younger people who keep the country going are on our own? That’s a ‘sound’ plan we have intact, I tell ya… You know what’s really strange, seniors have been the #1 advocate against a Public Option or “Government-Run Health Care.” Someone should really enlighten others as to who runs Medicare.
- Why do the Republicans need to offer a plan when the American people like their current plan? The only reason Americans want some kind of reform is because they know that either the free market can do it better and want better access to it or they are simply worried about their neighbor’s health care.
- Nobody in government is calling for rolling back of Unemployment benefits right now. Besides, if you have 3-6 months of personal expenses saved up, you don’t need to go on unemployment when you are laid off for being a lazy worker.
- Actually I doubt that when any of us turn 65 we will be able to go on Medicare anyway, so it’s really a moot point.
Look, we have Social Security. It’s past time for a Health Security. American lives are being protected by all of the aforementioned government run programs. Why not at least the “option” of health-insurance security???
Social Security is going broke as well. My last Social Security statement even said it on the front page of the document. With even the government agency admitting that they are going broke, how can you even entertain the thought of comparing it to “Health Security”. Americans have tons of options in health care because there are over one thousand health insurance companies to pick from. The only reason there aren’t more options is because the government, at both the state and Federal level, are forcing insurance companies to provide services that should be left up to the consumer.
I don’t have much hope for this guy. It’s pretty clear to me that he’s an intellectual moron and probably couldn’t explain the basics of economic theory.
He’s obviously too stupid to not know the difference between “Reply” and “Reply to All” in his e-mail.