Thanks for the ping, Kaslin.
Posted on 08/23/2010 4:34:59 PM PDT by Kaslin
There is so much political spin, and so many numbers games being played, when it comes to medical care, that we have to go back to square one and the simplest common sense in order to get some rational idea of what government-run medical care means.
In particular, we need to examine the claim that the government can "bring down the cost of medical care."
The most basic fact is that it is cheaper to remain sick than to get medical treatment. What is cheapest of all is to die instead of getting lifesaving medications and treatment, which can be very expensive.
Despite these facts, most of us tend to take a somewhat more parochial view of the situation when it is we ourselves who are sick or who face a potentially fatal illness. But what if that decision is taken out of your hands under ObamaCare and is being made for you by a bureaucrat in Washington?
We won't know what that leads to until the time comes. As Nancy Pelosi said, we will find out what is in the bill after it has passed. But even now, after ObamaCare has been passed, not many people want to read its 2,400 pages. Even if you did, you would still not know what it would be like in practice, after more than 150 boards and commissions issue their specific regulations.
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“The most basic fact is that it is cheaper to remain sick than to get medical treatment. What is cheapest of all is to die instead of getting lifesaving medications and treatment, which can be very expensive.”
Indeed. Truth from Dr. Sowell
” you would still not know what it would be like in practice, after more than 150 boards and commissions issue their specific regulations “
Our Legislative System (Congress and President) no longer make law, but has degenerated into ‘Manufacturers of Bureaucracies’ - and it’s the unaccountable and unsupervised Bureaucracies that make the laws....
In modern America, “Representative Democracy” has become a hollow joke....
I agree
Thanks for the ping, Kaslin.
You are very welcome
It’s infuriating.
He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their Substance.How in hell do we get our selves out of this mess we have created. Step one I believe starts on Nov. 2, 2010.
Bump for later...
we need to examine the claim that the government can "bring down the cost of medical care.". . . we have "higher infant mortality rates" than other countries with government medical care systems. But we count every baby that dies and other countries do not.. . . The most basic fact is that it is cheaper to remain sick than to get medical treatment. What is cheapest of all is to die.. . . if you leave out people who are victims of homicide or who die in automobile accidents, Americans live longer than people in any other Western country . . . Doctors do not prevent homicides or car crashes
. . . In the things that doctors can affect, such as the survival rates of cancer patients, the United States leads the world.
An organization which is recommended as "the worst form of government - except for all the others" can only inspire limited trust.An organization which, having already taken responsibility (via Social Security) for supporting your lifestyle,
takes responsibility toseizes all authority over efforts to keep you living, is demanding that you trust it.To willingly accede to any such demand, from anyone, is foolish and craven.
Thanks for the ping.
“I’m not sure at what point that bureaucratic regulations took on the force of law.”
I believe they call it an “enabling act.”
To willingly accede to any such demand, from anyone, is foolish and craven.
BTTT!
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