The 12 Percent Problem

We are a nation of consumers. Almost 70 percent of our economy is based upon consumerism. From coupon shoppers, to Internet searchers, to barterers, to newspaper sales ad readers, to hagglers, we are a nation of consumers who almost daily exercise our right to find the best deal for our money. So why do we ignore our consumer roots when it comes to purchasing healthcare? According to Real Clear Markets Americans only control 12 percent of their healthcare dollar. The other 88 percent is spent on our behalf.

The current healthcare model is driven by the fact that most of us are only responsible for a relatively small co-pay of twenty or twenty-five dollars. Most of us are so pampered that the doctor's staff is responsible for sending in the paperwork to claim the remainder of their fee for services rendered. Most if not all of us rarely ever notice or care about what the doctor actually charges. We do notice and review our healthcare plan whenever it comes up for renewal. We may even opt to increase or decrease our co-pays or change providers so that we are not even responsible for making co-pay charges. So for most, as long as our co-pays remain manageable, we really don't care about what the doctor actually charges! And therein lies the problem. We act like responsible consumers for our co-pays and basically ignore the larger 88 percent of actual costs, which is the real cost driver. No wonder that healthcare costs are rising!

If we are to control healthcare spending, then we need to become consumers for the entire about we spend and not just 12 percent.

The Road to Perdition is Paved with Compassion

Obama Care is a mistake. Look at the test systems in Massachusetts and Maine. Both are costing much more than predicted, have increased healthcare fees and are bankrupting their respective states. I do not think anyone can point to one example of a program that cost less than the amount government said. Big government is expensive in terms of the money it sucks from our pockets and maniacal abuses it foments from power hungry progressives. Our founding fathers understood the problems with big government and emphasized small government and self reliance instead.

Progressives say healthcare is the compassionate thing to do. They laugh and ridicule anyone who suggests otherwise. But is it? Obama Care basically takes from the rich and gives to the poor. In reality isn't that the same as giving a man a fish as in the old saying: "Give a man to fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." The better and more lasting solution is to teach everyone how to fish, so they can become self reliant and pursue their own course to happiness.

Progressives use compassion as a fashionable, powerful, motivating and pretentious aphrodisiac to ruin this country. The party of NO should take pride in standing up for individual freedoms and fiscal probity.

Rep. Wilson got it RIGHT, President Obama Lied

The Prevaricator-in-Chief put on a stunning performance the other night when he addressed Congress, once again obfuscating every bit of truth. Sure Obama Care will be everything to everyone ... so why wait 4 years to put it in place? Because, despite claims to the contrary President Obama wants to be re-elected before the light of the truth shines on him.

The Obamanation started out lying and kept right on lying all the way through. In my opinion Representative Joe Wilson showed remarkable constraint waiting as long as he did!

To illustrate, I'll stroke the Obamanation like he disingenuously stoked Republicans by first saying that I agree, no where in any of the Obama Care bills does it say there will be death panels. No where. But it doesn't say there won't be either.

Instead the bill advocates death counseling because, well, we could possibly cut costs if old people come to grips with the fact that they will or are dying and eschew expensive end of life treatments.

Question. Unless you are God (in which case this question is totally pointless) how will you know when you are actually going to die? This is not a rhetorical question without consequence. The obvious answer is that YOU DON'T! DOH!

But some people, bless their souls, will opt for the morphine drip and pass on because they will think they are dying and, you know, its the right thing to do for their family, friends and society. They will believe after they have received their "counseling" that they don't want to waste away or spend a bunch of money needlessly. Needlessly? To resort to the same moral rhetoric as the Obamanation if we save or extend just one life for a year, isn't the cost worth it?

So, yeah the "truth" is Obama Care doesn't include death panels, but that is clearly the net effect. Some people will die earlier because they will forgo every medical procedure available to them. Ergo sometimes death counseling will lead to premature deaths. The semantic advantage goes NOT to the Obamanation, but to critics like Rep Wilson and myself who, after examining the facts, undoubtedly believe that the Obamanation lied!

Another thing, I totally agree that Obama Care needs to be paid for before it’s enacted! But what if the costs soar over the Obamanation’s incredibly optimistic cost estimates just like the Congressional Budget Office say they will? Does the bill also contain protections and prohibitions that would render it void and discarded? NAY NAY. Another semantic advantage tending to prove that the Obamanation lied.

For every omission or half truth the Obamanation uttered there was an equal and most likely outcome that he denounced as a scare tactic! It's okay for the Dimwitocrats to assert falsehoods to scare people, but not critics. That's un-American and it sure doesn’t alleviate the inconsistencies and potential for misery that exudes from this liberal, progressive fantasy like stink on poo.

BS you say?? Fine. You don't have to take my word for it, the following WSJ article Medicare for Dummies details many of the Obamanation's manipulations of the truth!

Still not satisfied? OK, what if I said that I could embrace Obama Care IF it included ironclad prohibitions or expirations for every evil that any thinking person knows will happen. Sadly I am on solid ground here because Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the intellectually challenged Dimwitocrats won't include ironclad guarantees because they know the truth. To wit, that the criticisms against the bill are true or have a very high probability of coming about because the bill just doesn’t include exact, unambiguous language of the type that everyone reads and agrees says what it says!

The only explanation that makes any sense to me is that the Obamanation is so enamored of what he perceives will be and surely, rightfully is his place in history, he just can’t let this go. Yes he did make one hell of a fine pitch for Obama Care; but I just don’t believe what this liar is selling. I didn't believe him as candidate Obama and every single one of his actions since he has taken office concretely support that Rep. Wilson and I made the right assessment then as now. Obama lied!

For everyone out there who will think I am merely providing additional noise to the cacophony that is the health care debate I offer the following. I know it would be pointless for me to attempt to educate the Obamanation, but still, if I had a moment to speak with him I would suggest that he embrace the free market reforms advocated by the Cato Institute. I would stress that free market reforms would not be as alluring as his fantasy, but they sure make sense and cost nothing to implement! And from that standpoint alone they deserve a chance, unlike Obama Care which should be absolutely and totally abandoned and soon forgotten!

Share this Chart and Annoy Speark Pelosi

Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas designed this colorful chart depicting Obama Care that Speaker Pelosi and other Dimwitocrats don't want the public too see. Interestingly, they are not complaining that the chart is wrong or misleading, but Speaker Pelosi is preventing House members from using their Franking or mailing privileges to send the chart to their constituents.

Speaker Pelosi's decision begs the question, why is she afraid of this little chart? Could it be that too much information in the hands of the public is not a good thing? Could it be that the Dimwitocrats are afraid to tell voters what is contained in Obama Care before its enacted? Things like the Office of Minority Health? Or Office of Civil Rights? Or Health Choices Administration? Maybe!?!

But who cares! Nows our your chance to annoy Speaker Pelosi like she's been annoying us! Past this chart along to everyone you know and let them know how you feel about Obama Care!!!