Why?

It seems to me that our president is doing all the wrong things:

He is fixing health care so:
Insurance premiums will go up.
Spending on health care will go up.
We are using slight of hand to make it seem less devastating to the economy
(ie. Paying for the first 5 years of care with 10 years of financing.
He says that it won't add one dime to the deficit and no on believes him.
The first green shoots of health care rationing are already sprouting (Later mammograms, etc.)
They say that it will only cost $1,000,000,000 in new taxes and that won't hurt the economy?
They never talk about the costs of about 50 new commissions, boards and advisory committees. (phones, office space, office machines, payroll, "Cadillac" government health care, and on and on.

One has to ask WHY?

Now we learn about the absolute fraud that the climate control freaks have been trying to dump on us. Scientists. The ones that WANT facts and trying to manipulate the facts and silents some real facts.

One has to ask WHY?

Do What Works

We know what can work to cut down health care costs and we know what might (probably will) happen if comprehensive health care reform is passed.

What will happen if a large health care reform bill is passed;

1. It will cost more than they say. The talk on Friday was that the House bill will (Hooray) cost less than $900,000,000 over ten years. Take that with a grain of salt and your cancer will be curred!
2. We will grow the government payroll.
3. We will grow the number of public employees union members.
4. We have no idea if what is proposed will work.
5. We know that waste, fraud and abuse will gros.
6. We know it will grow the deficit
7. We know we will have to borrow more and more money!
8. We know care will be rationed.
9. We know with care rationed, more lawsuits
10. and costs will go up.

What can work?

1. If indeed we can cut waste fraud and abuse in Medicare, let's do it and see if it can be done.
2. We know competition cuts prices. Let insurance companies sell across state lines.
3. Limit lawsuits

Let's do what we know works before we leap off the ledge into the unknown

Let's Pretend

Let's pretend that we can take on 20-30-40 million people and provide health care and not increase the deficit.

Let's pretend that by taxing everything in sight to make it work that it will not impact the economy.

Let's pretend that we can get nearly $500 billion out of Medicare and not impact the quality of care.

Let's pretend that the government can manage another big bureaucracy efficiently.

Let's pretend that what the politicians tell us on projections is correct.

Let's pretend that a system that has not worked EVER around the world will work here.

Let's pretend we do not have a serious problem with Medicare and Social Security.

Let's pretend that our kids will not eventually find out what we are doing to them.

Yes, Let's pretend and then we can pass health care reform

Screw up, Fix, Screw up. Fix until it is not Fixable

The government steps in and "fixes" a problem. But because they are not "long term" thinkers the "Fix" always has unintended consequences...that need fixing.

And on and on it goes until it is beyond fix. Are we at that point in healthcare "reform". the latest bill proposes to mandate individuals have insurance. But one of the ways they propose to finance it is to tax health insurers. Huh!!!!! So we are going to "fix" the high cost of healthcare by increasing the cost of healthcare.

Only congress could come up with that.

Controlling Healthcare Costs

The mantra now is the we must control healthcare costs. But this is an unreachable goal. Sure we can reduce costs by limiting service, but limiting payments, but these always come with unintended consequences and are not really controlling costs, but mus managing healthcare.

The government, since it is already headlong into healthcare must think this; We must create the environment to enable the market to function and to produce the best care at the optimum price.

To do;

Create a competitive environment and not with a government option when the government controls all the rules and when the government is made up of people (from that old song...) who can' say "No".

To make the environment better on costs some limits on the option to sue. The environment now just encourages lawsuits. To start a lawsuit costs little and may generate a tsunami of money for the lawyers and the plaintive. If they lose, so what, little ventured.

The customer has to have skin in the game. No one should go to the doctor without having to pay someting. Every doctor should know and make avaiable "How much this will cost".

More later

The Dirty Little Secret

A healthcare plan has passed a key committee in the house and headed to the floor for debate and vote in September. Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that any such bill will be "Paid for". The President says that he will not sign any bill that adds to the deficit.

This apparently tell us the the President and the Speaker know how much it will cost. Also they must know the actual revenue from new taxes enacted to "Pay" for it.

The dirty little secret is that they both have no idea how much it will cost or how much revenue is needed to pay for it.

The argument about health care is not about health care. No one in his right mind would advocate a health care system that has never succeeded in providing excellent health care.

It is about control, it is about making government bigger, more government jobs, more voters on the puplic payroll, more advocates of big government.

Until they address the problems of health care the fight is about control. Who controls you? You or the government. It is your call.