Unlike Benedict Arnold, Ben Nelson Didn’t Even Put Up a Fight

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Posted by rx | Posted on 21-12-2009

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Before he became a turncoat, Benedict Arnold was a gallant warrior and brilliant general who led the colonists to the turning-point victory over the British at Saratoga in our Revolutionary War.

A modern-day turncoat, Ben Nelson, Democratic Senator of Nebraska, didn’t even bother to fight–for his so-called principles or even for common sense. Supposedly against any health care reform that funded abortions, Nelson caved at the expected moment when Harry Reid threw a few million dollars his way to buy votes back home. He’s now one of the happy band of 60 Demo-idiots preparing to rule and ruin American health care from here to eternity.

Michelle Malkin on her blog has a letter from a Nebraska physician to Senator Nelson. It’s a must read. As the author notes, the so-called abortion language that convinced Nelson to vote for health care reform is as illusory as the savings the bill is supposed to wring from the nation’s medical spending.

That’s what you get for when you put Demofiends in power–government by illusion.

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Gee, Medicare Is Bankrupt, So What This Country Needs Is a ‘Public Option’–Brilliant!

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Posted by rx | Posted on 29-10-2009

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The obvious intent of including a so-called public option in the so-called health care reform going on in D.C. (I hate to even call it the nation’s capital anymore; it’s been occupied by foreign forces out to destroy the nation) is to put private insurers out of business, aggregate all health care in the hands of government to create an entitlement, and thereby assure the perpetual re-election of Democrats because, "The Republicans will take away your health care."

That’s the intent in the long run. In the short run, the intent is to shift all discussion of health care reform from where it belongs–on our already bankrupt public option known as Medicare–to what the Demofiends hope the public perceives as "free" health care, the so-called public option.

If Medicare, which pays about 80 percent or less of what doctors and hospitals say their services are worth, is going bankrupt while undercutting the private insurances and private health care practitioners, what the hell is a public option going to do except exactly the same on a grander scale?

So, what you have here–much like the battle over executive pay–is to shift the blame from government (which runs the public option of Medicare and has botched it entirely to the private insurers, who are now being demonized when, in fact, the great majority of insured Americans are more than happy with their insurance and don’t want to give it up. The great pool of uninsured is largely those who choose not to pay for insurance and those who are here illegally, plus many who are eligible for Medicaid but don’t bother to sign up.

I thought Arnold Kling, writing for the site Library of Economics and Liberty, said it best:

Incidentally, the debate over the ‘public option’ in health reform also can be viewed as an exercise in symbolic politics and diversion. The point is to divert attention away from the bankruptcy of Medicare.

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The Feds’ Nigerian 419 Health Care Reform Plan to Bind Us All

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Posted by rx | Posted on 23-10-2009

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Among the many items in so-called health care reform never discussed by the traditional (read: brainwashed, complicit liberal) media is the start date of ALL the health care plans circulating through Congress–2013.

The obvious reason for this is that the Demofiends don’t want to inflict the pain inherent in their reform plans until after Barak Obama (oh, sorrowful day) is re-elected president. Of course, it could just as easily be Sarah Palin and a Republican Congress in 2013, but you can’t accuse the Demobastards of not at least aiming high.

The less obvious, and also never discussed, aspect of this start date is the Nigeran 419 aspect of health care reform.

A brief primer on the Nigerian 419 scam: You receive an e-mail stating that somehow millions of dollars have been left in your name in some (non-existent) Nigerian bank. Send $25,000, and the e-mail sender will negotiate for the release of the money. Of course, it’s pretty easy to see what happens next. Nothing. You’ve just lost $25,000.

Health care reform hinges on a similar principle. To make "universal" health care appear affordable, the measures are all loaded with up-front revenue enhancers, whether in the form of taxes or fees or some other euphemism for taxation and a government raid of your income, that kick in immediately. The Feds are thereby able to build up a war chest (in theory anyway since in practice the money would be immediately spent) for 2013 when the costs of implementing health care reform kick in. And these costs will be huge and quickly runaway from projections (see Massachusetts, Tennesse, etc.).

Like the Nigerian 419 scheme, you pay the Democrats up front, and what do you get after 2013?

Nothing.

 ’Cept for further expenses for health care insurance, whether at work or in your personal mailbox, and then some health care "czar" will set about rationing and denying treatment and medicines.

Change maybe you can believe it, but not me.

I ain’t no sucka.

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