Healthscare

Let's be honest, President Barack Obama's plan for healthcare reform is not only a joke, but a bad one at that. The only thing worse than his plan, actually, is his public campaign in recent weeks that details the impending debacle should it be passed. Barry has shown how out of touch with the public he really is and his arrogance is truly wearing on voters. The plan is laughable, but this is what we've come to expect from a guy who couldn't run a lemonade stand.

Unless you've been under a rock for the last few weeks, you've likely seen excerpts from town hall meetings all over the country where the public discusses healthcare reform with its local representatives. You've probably also seen what a disaster the town hall meetings have turned into for Dems, as people with real concerns nearly riot against the reform. The meetings got so bad for Dems that they even resorted to planting fake doctors and exploiting children (whose mothers are Obama delegates and fundraising coordinators) to ask silly questions. Like you didn't think someone was going to do their homework and find that out??!! Laughable. And have you noticed what else the Dems do when they get cornered? They go on the defensive and all of a sudden, you become the crazy one. I have to listen to Rachel Madow tell me the American people are overreacting, the riots are staged, and we're all idiots. (Sidebar: Rachel Madow is the handsomest man on television...the Mike Mussina of TV talking heads, I'd say. Wait, I just looked Rachel up on Wikipedia and it said that she is a woman. Well I'm going to write that one off as Wikipedia's bad; someone must have entered some faulty data. That's certainly not true.) Obama can't even get his story straight, either. One day his plan includes a public option, the next it doesn't, depending on what mood he's in that day.

We realize that the public option exists in Canada and it sucks, right? In a public healthcare system, you no longer have the ability to choose your primary care physician--you just get who you're given. I don't know about you, but I certainly don't want to play roulette with my health. When you move into a new area and want to visit a doctor, what do you you? You ask people at work for the names of their PCP's and schedule an appointment based on what you think is the best referral. No longer viable in the public option--you could get Dr. Octopus for all I know. Moreover, in the public system, the best doctors in the country are hired out by the wealthy to serve as their personal physicians, further dwindling the pool of quality doctors available. To add on even more, doctors' salaries will decrease because they will be limited by the amount of funding received from Medicare and Medicaid. And I think we're all aware of the elephant in the room--who's going to pay for the trillion dollar Medicare and Medicaid programs? Our grandkids' kids, that's who. As doctors' salaries decrease, fewer med students will pursue a career as a PCP and will instead focus on specialty practices. So in one swift blow, we've significantly decreased the number of doctors in the country, increased the number of patients, and cut doctors' salaries. Alright, sweet. Got it.

What else do we want the government to control? It already owns several banks and automobile manufacturers, now we want to give up healthcare and insurance? Why stop there? Let's give up the hospitality industry, the NHL, and the music recording business. You realize that the government owns your house if your loan is serviced by one of the government-funded banks, right? It also now has a stake in most corporations via the banks, as well. I won't take credit for this conspiracy theory, but isn't it completely feasible that having an ownership stake in corporations via the banks was a primary motive of the government? It makes sense given the president's history--hell, his present! It's as if we're inching closer to socialism a little bit every day at the content of the people in power. Let's stand up to Obamarx...power to the people!