At the last election many of us were hoping for a centrist president and administration. We feared anyone who would continue the Bush years. But we got a collectivist spender instead. This president happens on the scene after a Republican administration that worked to destroy more American values than many in generations, while enacting more collectivist policies. The trend toward collectivism that began in the 1930s (or even earlier with Progressivism) had already gone too far. It is amazing that people who claim to support individual rights did not get angry and speak out against this government sooner.
The Obama administration has overstepped the line. This is the last straw. If Obama's health care bill, HR3200 or anything close to it, this country is finished.
Collectivism has been growing in this country, sometimes with changes you could call communistic, sometimes fascist, but always statist. And now as if that had not gone far enough, the Obama administration seeks to add more: look at their agenda . Moreover, if you examine it closely, you will find many of the final steps toward fulfilling another agenda. America has been moving steadily for seventy years towards this set of 10 goals:
- Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. [ALMOST DONE*]
- A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. [DONE]
- Abolition of all rights of inheritance. [TAXING IT HEAVILY]
- Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. [PROPERTY SUSPECTED OF INVOLVEMENT IN A CRIME – EVEN IF OWNER IS PROVEN INNOCENT[
- Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. [DONE, PLUS THE HIDDEN TAX OF INFLATION OF THE MONEY SUPPLY]
- Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state. [NEARLY ALL UNDER CONTROL
- Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. [OWNS POST OFFICE, ONE AUTO MAKER, TWO MORTGAGE LENDERS, PARTS OF SOME BANKS]
- Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
- Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
- Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. [ALMOST DONE]
* "The ultimate ownership of all property is in the State; individual so-called "ownership" is only by virtue of Government, i.e., law, amounting to mere user; and that use must be in accordance with law and subordinate to the necessities of the State." Senate Resolution #62 , April 1933.
Less than 10 percent of the American population can name the source of those 10 goals: The Communist Manifesto . Several goals have already been achieved in the USA and the Democratic Party is busy trying to implement the remainder.
This administration intends to destroy the Free Market. It is clearly out to destroy health insurance firms, does not understand insurance or hedge funds. It will not tell you in honesty that its goal is to destroy capitalism. Capitalism is the system under which men trade for mutual benefit, subject to no more legal controls than individuals are, it is the system that for most of our history made this country the most productive and wealthy.
This administration will not defend individual rights such as is described in the Bill of Rights, but regretfully allows us a few privileges that the administration can tolerate and which support its goals.
Keep this administration, allow it free reign and kiss your freedoms goodbye.
It is not at all just about health care. But that is a real problem. Wait and listen for more. The administration tries to take our attention off it once in awhile with Presidential medal awards and speeches about a whole new approach to education, but health care is the major current problem for the administration. When they are done with health insurance, they will come for more.
This author is not alleging any crime against America 's elderly. It is acknowledged that the brouhaha about free counseling for end of life options was poorly chosen as a way to support the elderly, and that it was introduced into the House bill by Republicans. That is not the problem.
The problem is that no one that I have heard of has identified the cause of the unduly high medical expenses in this country and the exclusion of millions from current insurance options.
First, the facts about who is uninsured :
Of the 46 million who lack medical care insurance, in other words, subtract 12 million who are eligible for existing insurance programs need to be directed to apply for Medicaid or SCHIP (although these programs should be abolished as they, along with many programs, build on legalized theft to redistribute income), and 9 million should be allowed to continue their “self-insurance” approach. This leaves 5 to 13 million American citizens that we should be able to take care of through voluntary charitable contributions.
We must not put the cruel harnesses of government coercion on the whole population in order to deal with the problems of any portion of the people, let alone three percent (3%) of the population.
Next, What Factors Drive up Medical Costs
- In the face of malpractice suits doctors have had to react in two ways:
- they have had to pay much higher insurance premiums and
- they have begun to prescribe more MRI usage and blood tests, etc.
- they may prescribe more medications than necessary.
In addition to this, medical insurance firms are prevented by state governments from full and complete competition across the country. State laws even prevent Doctors Without Borders from doing pro bono clinical care outside their own state.
When the government begins to talk about “negotiating” with pharmaceutical firms about prices, you should realize that both sides are aware of the government having the gun. That is lowering prices by the use of coercion. Nothing will lower a patient's costs at the doctor's office as well as when the patient begins to negotiate with the doctor!
94 percent of health insurance markets in the United States are now highly concentrated, and insurers are thriving in the anti-competitive marketplace. See the American Medical Association study which is summarized by state at the blog Blurbomat.com , showing that in most states the market is dominated by one or two insurance firms.
The only way to correct this is to apply the original meaning of the constitution, which gave congress the power to “regulate commerce among the states” – in this case congress has the power to stop the states from making commerce across their borders irregular and less competitive.
The Obama administration is aiming at a single-payer health care system. That may not be what they seek to do immediately, but that is their long term goal. Like the Fabians, these people will resort to “baby steps” if opposition is somewhat effective. Whatever comes out under the heading of health care reform this year or next will go in that direction, even though only a first step. Our opposition must be total.
Supposedly you can keep your doctor and you can keep your current health care plan. What they soft-pedal or omit is that your private health care plan will be changing . When the prices charged for specific services are forced down directly or by subsidies, private insurance firms will not profit and will legitimately stop offering coverage for those services. The government will not tell your health care insurance company what care you may or may not receive. That is up to your doctor. On the other hand, your doctor may receive “suggestions” from the government.
It does not matter that without the “public option” you will not have reform. We do not need another government program, called “public option” or a subsidized co-op.
The Public Option or Subsidized Cooperatives
Private health care insurance will then become a thing of the past. HMOs, and other plans, whether in the form of individual policies or group, will disappear.
They may be outlawed or just squeezed out.
How can they be squeezed out? If you build enough restrictive fences such as maximum premiums, mandating new policy classes that lead to lower premiums, killing patent protection for prescription medications. Employers will have incentives, then, to drop their old plan and sign up their employees in the government's public option.
The next step might be to for the government to “negotiate” the pharmaceutical firms for lower prescription costs. You will then watch in horror as investments by pharmaceutical firms grind to a halt, and the pipeline of new wonder-working drugs will dry up.
The government can strangle or squeeze out private medical care insurance. Add on to that the same treatment of dental care, psychological counseling, etc., and eventually we will have what is called “socialized medicine” in other countries.
At some point a public medical care plan will be introduced. It will be subsidized. It will provide basic catastrophic coverage plus preventive care and cover routine doctor visits, whose competitive power will run private plans out of town. When the government steps in with a public option or with co-ops, it does not create a “new market.” Rather, the market that we have is damaged and eventually is wrecked. A government subsidized agency “competing” against an industry of hundreds of firms with government regulations imposed on them is not a market.
Later, all private health care plans will have to be processed through the centralized Federal health care Exchange .
There are hardly any steps left in making the U.S. government your single payer.
But just what is it that makes medical care that much more important than food, clothing and shelter?
Let this show go on and we could have a single-payer system for everything. And what do you call that? Statism. Collectivism.
The health care problem of America needs just three things:
- Cap medical malpractice damages to $250,000
- Make it illegal to prevent consumers from buying medical insurance from out of state firms
- Allow American consumers to buy prescription medications outside the country.
These steps protect individual rights and do not initiate coercion on anyone. To go further would violate individual rights, initiating coercive force by the government, which is unconstitutional. Far from being a “moral obligation,” the planned health care reform is an immoral attack on individual rights and the free market.
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