Friday Evening Post: Random Ramblings
BySummer is winding down. It seems like it just began. Here in the northeast it took a while for the weather to catch up with the calendar. If we’re lucky global warming will descend upon us and extend summer just a bit. I won’t hold my breath.
The Obama family is taking yet another vacation. I wonder if Michelle will wear shorts again on Air Force One. I know, it’s not a big story, but couldn’t she have thrown protocol out the window with business casual? Not that I have a problem with shorts, I’m wearing a pair now. But I’m not the First Lady. If I were I’d show a bit more respect to the folks paying my air fare.
I’m sick and tired of hearing about the health care “debate” in Washington. The American people might be having a debate, but in Washington all we’re getting from the democrats is “my way or the highway.” Perhaps “my way or the nuclear option” is more appropriate. Did you know the republicans have a health care bill that won’t increase the deficit, create death panels, or impinge upon our freedoms? If not, it’s not your fault. The media shies away from this sort of story.
Class warfare is alive and well here in the US. It’s really kind of sad. I see it every day here in the comments. Just today, my post questioning whether nationalized health care is constitutional I received the following comment from Christopher Clark:
“In other words, the necessary and proper clause cannot itself authorize national public health insurance. One would have to show that national public health insurance is necessary and proper to execute some other power granted in the Constitution. This puts the proponents of nationalized healthcare back where they started.”
In our system, the poor die. I am a cancer survivor, but only because my doctors treated me for no charge. If I had had other physicians, I would have died.
What more proof is needed that national insurance is necessary than the pathetic mess our health system is in? We have the worst system of any major country, and quite a few minor countries have systems that are superior. Those who believe otherwise are either ignorant, heartless, or both.
So Mr. Clark says he is poor and would have died if not for his physician treating him for free. Then he argues that we need nationalized health insurance so poor people don’t die. So in his mind, keeping poor people from dying is constitutional. But he’s here today, obviously using a computer or a mobile device to comment on my blog to tell me he should be dead because we don’t have nationalized health care.
Does he believe his is the only physician in America willing to treat patients on a sliding scale or free of charge? Does he believe there are no charitable organizations to help the poor? He’s living proof that American goodness is alive and well. And he wants to destroy the system that made it possible? Does Christopher think his doctor could have afforded to keep him alive free of charge if he weren’t making a living?
Christopher is a classic lib. He threw out some emotional rhetoric, then accused me of being “either ignorant, heartless, or both.” In fact I am neither ignorant nor heartless. Does Christopher realize that the United States has higher cancer survival rates than they do in the UK? Probably not. If health care in the US is so bad, why is he still alive? And why does Canada, where socialized medicine has been in place for years, send patients to the United States for specialized treatment?
I’m sure Christopher won’t come back to answer these questions. But enough about him.
Like every other sane American, I do see a need for health care reform. And there are plenty of common sense ideas out there. I cover them constantly. But the democrats refuse, absolutely refuse, to consider those common sense solutions. They can’t pass tort reform because they get a lot of dough from trial lawyers. They can’t allow insurance policies to be sold across state lines because that puts the power in the hands of the consumer, not Washington. You get the drift.
The poor in America already have welfare, Medicaid, Schip, Section 8, HEAP, the EITC, food stamps and WIC. In summary, we’re already providing them with medical insurance, housing, heat, cash and food. What more do they want from us, their butts wiped?
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Do you believe the Constitution is the rule of law? Do you believe in the original intent of our founding fathers? Do you want to reform Congress? If your answer is yes, we have to work together to make this happen.
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