Obamanation Health-Care
Reality. What a concept.
In what he is describing as yet another historic opportunity Barack Obama stood before the American Medical Association and tried to explain his vision for lowering the consumer price of health-care while improving quality to all and availability to the poor and uninsured while absolutely refusing to do anything to lower the main driving factors in the cost structure of providing that care.
I have to marvel at the complete lack of realistic thinking that goes into some of his misguided ideas. Thanks to a campaign that promised nothing but theoretic rhetoric the country is now saddled with a president who honestly believes things will work out the way he envisions simply because he says so. His concepts and ideas defy even the most rudimentary principles of cognitive thought by simply claiming a governmental mandate that 2 + 2 no longer equals 4.
It is the mind of a socialist community activist attempting to right nonexistent wrongs that is now threatening the very health and survival of the elderly and infirmed in America.
Where as in the past if a president from either party made outrageous claims or accusations at least some of the press would endeavor to do some fact checking and question those statements. Outside of some of the staunch conservative talk show hosts, none of the major media news outlets is willing to question anything this president is purporting. Some of what the president said at this AMA convention is just blatantly false and most of the rest has the facts so skewed that it would be nearly impossible for anybody other than him to connect the dots.
Being careful to avoid the obvious comparisons to the failed “Hillary Health-Care” plan of the Clinton administration, Obama said “We are spending over $2 trillion a year on health care, almost 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. For all this spending, more of our citizens are uninsured, the quality of our care is often lower and we aren’t any healthier.”
The attempt at deception contained in this statement is profound. First, we are spending more on health-care because we are living longer and we are now aggressively and successfully treating illnesses that only a few years ago meant certain death. Secondly, the number of uninsured Americans has nothing to do with the quality or availability of health-care. And third, to believe we are receiving a lower standard of care then previously given or that we as a nation are not living longer is completely contrary to every statistic available on life expectancy and quality of life, including those compiled by the US government.
The president refuses to even acknowledge that in the cost structure of health care the number one item is malpractice insurance and the number two item is unpaid medical bills. The crowd at the AMA conference was polite and gave the president the respect his office demands, but the one time they booed was when Obama said he opposed setting any limits on awards for malpractice lawsuits. He said nothing about the influx of illegal aliens using hospital emergency rooms as their regular physician and then skipping on the bill. The most recent statistics show a nearly 90% default rate on undocumented patients.
No, for this socialist, the costs involved in providing the health-care mean nothing. It’s all about the greed and profit mindset of doctors, hospitals, drug companies and health-care companies. Unfortunately reality once again is left out in the cold.
To be sure, the voters who bought the slick campaign ads and chanted with glee the mantras of “Change” and “Yes We Can” may indeed get of what they were promised, but not what they expected.
Can this president put a stick in the spokes of the highest quality health-care available on the planet? Yes he can. And when doctors can no longer practice due to the ever increasing rates charged by their insurance carriers, or when doctors can longer afford to accept Medicare patients because the amount allowed for payment doesn’t cover the cost, or when even more hospitals are forced to close because of mounting debt due to unpaid bills for services provided there will indeed be a change.
Hillary Health-Care was a bad idea that even Democrats rallied against. This Obamanation Health-Care plan is even worse.
Can we take our national life expectancy back down from its current average of 79 to where it was 50 years ago?
Yes We Can!
