Posted on 08/10/2009 2:15:39 PM PDT by fiscon1
The past week’s debate about health care has shown that in Washington the only things more stubborn than facts are politicians who evade them. In spite of a torrent of independent analyses showing that the so-called health-care “reform” bills moving through Congress will dramatically increase the deficit and cause millions of Americans to lose their health insurance, the politicians leading the effort have steadfastly refused to consider that their ideas and policies, rather than the character of their critics, may be flawed. At the same time, the politicians writing the bill still refuse to answer basic questions about how it will be paid for and how it will affect patients.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
I have one.
For those who don’t trust the insurance company they can get a different one.
What are those whom don’t trust the government supposed to do?
Excellent questions from Dr. Coburn, one of 2 physicians in the Senate.
“”1. Why do we need to increase spending on health care by at least $1.6 trillion and steal prosperity from our children and grandchildren when we spend nearly twice per person what other industrialized nations spend on health care?...
2. What programs will you cut and whose taxes will you raise to pay for health-care reform?
3. What earmarks or pet projects that you have sponsored will you sacrifice to help finance the cost of health-care reform?
4. Will you vote for a public option that requires taxpayer-funded abortion?
5. If the public option is so wonderful, will you lead by example and vote for a plan to enroll you and your family in the public option?
6. Will you vote for a plan that will allow a board of politicians and bureaucrats to override decisions made by you and your doctor?
7. If you support a “comparative effectiveness” board, what qualifies you, as a politician, to practice medicine? Have you delivered health care to a single person, much less entire classes of people you claim to represent, such as the poor, the uninsured, or children?
8. How will a government-run public option perform better than other failing government programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Indian Health Care?
9. If increasing spending on health care was the solution, why hasn’t it worked yet?
10. Are you more committed to doing reform right or quickly? Would you consider backing a thoughtful alternative to the public option? If so, which one?...””
My favorite is always “by what right?”.
How long before this guy is taken out back?? I don’t trust the left to leave anyone alone who does not back their plan!!
Mine is "At whose expense...?"
By what Constitutional authority?
“..the politicians leading the effort have steadfastly refused to consider that their ideas and policies, rather than the character of their critics, may be flawed.”
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They know that their ideas are flawed or they would have enthusiastically signed up for ObamaCare, which they haven’t. We’ve got a bunch of arrogant b*sterds trying to ram a health disaster down the people’s throats.
From the end of the article:
I’ve introduced a bill along with Sen. Richard Burr (R., N.C.) and Reps. Paul Ryan (R., Wisc.) and Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) called the Patient’s Choice Act that guarantees coverage and choice for every American without raising taxes or increasing spending. In fact, our bill will save taxpayers at least $70 billion. Many other members of Congress, both Republicans and Democrats, are working on alternatives that don’t herd the American people into a government-run program.
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