Replies

No form of a government health plan can be allowed to pass. The Stalinists only want to get some form of a plan passed. They don't care whether it comes anywhere close to what their final plan (1,000+ pages) looks like as long as they get something on the books. Once it is there it is only a matter of time before they will try to incrementally expand it. It may take years but the final result is exactly what we already see in the House bill. We can't let it start. We can't let them get a foot in the door. We can't allow them to get a toe in the door. We can't afford to open the door even if it is just a crack. The Income Tax code began as a 14 page document. Social Security payroll taxes were only a fraction of one percent of wages when it passed and payouts were tax exempt. The New Deal was a series of incremental programs (FDR couldn't afford to let the Depression end). Medicare didn't have Plan A, B, C, or D when it first passed. These disasters were the final products of plans which were sold as "just a minuscule fraction" of government expense. TODAY, THE COUNTRY IS BANKRUPT BECAUSE OF THESE PROGRAMS. We cannot accept any compromise upfront. THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE PLAN IS NO PLAN.

I’d be willing to see health care reform that:
1) reformed the scope/extent of lawsuits;
2) eliminated mandates that impose often silly requirements for private health care coverage;
3) required proof of citizenship for health care unless they had the cash to pay for it in their hands.

But you’ll never see that from Democrats. So I’m with you.

There is so much evidence that Democrats are trying to create a system that will LEAD TO GOVERNMENT CARE that I don’t trust them for ANY “reform.”

Medicare has an unfunded liability of $61.6 TRILLION dollars, and will go bankrupt by 2017. Maybe they could fix IT first before they screw up the rest of the health care system.