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Obama doesn't really care about health care
Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:01 AM PDT
Barack Obama promises to give us all health care that costs less while providing more. Pure genius, but how is he ever going to deliver on such a promise?
And therein lies the multi-trillion-dollar question. He says that he can get it done by taxing only the "rich" and by squeezing the inefficiencies out of the system. Sorry, but that's code for taxing anything and everything, while squeezing the heart and soul out of every health care provider.
Obama is a very smart guy, though, and he has to understand by now that this "turkey" can't fly.
I mean, if you want to provide more service, while bringing down costs, then you're going to need more doctors, right? Which means that we're going to need more students in pre-med, also. OK, but what happens when the kids in pre-med figure out that "Obamacare" means more work and less money? That's right, they are going to make other career choices. Oops, I guess "Obamacare" means fewer doctors and less health care, now, doesn't it?
Look, the real problem with "Obamacare" is the total disregard for how human behavior factors into the equation. These guys (Obama and his czars) understand that their plan is a disincentive for the medical profession; but that doesn't matter to them because the "real plan" is to make all professions (besides government that is) equally undesirable.
In other words, if government doesn't own you already, then they'll tax you until they do. C'mon, that can't be the "change" you were "hoping" for.
He came with "hope" and promised change, but all we got was something strange.
Stan Taves
Lodi
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dyan wrote on Jul 31, 2009 10:47 AM:
I_Vote wrote on Jul 31, 2009 7:11 AM:
Jeff wrote on Jul 31, 2009 7:00 AM:
Jeff wrote on Jul 31, 2009 7:00 AM:
Brian wrote on Jul 31, 2009 5:49 AM:
ne ig $$ istake merica "
danielh wrote on Jul 30, 2009 6:22 PM:
steve wrote on Jul 30, 2009 6:03 PM:
danielh wrote on Jul 28, 2009 9:15 PM:
The system in Washington is so broke that it can't be fixed. The only way around Washington is to nullify its economics from an external source of funding.
This is why Secret Service gets very upset when people mint Ron Paul solvent coins that are backed by real funding. These have the effect of destroying the government in Washington. "
danielh wrote on Jul 28, 2009 9:11 PM:
danielh wrote on Jul 28, 2009 9:10 PM:
So the rush has nothing to do with health. It is about controlling US citizens. "
danielh wrote on Jul 28, 2009 9:08 PM:
It is not appropriate for the property to make any decisions for their owner.
If you are a people, then you can dictate to your public servants what to do, but if you don't know what I'm talking about, then you are a chattel property US citizen, and you have no right to decide when and how you will receive health care.
The Declaration of Independence was written by people who declared their freedom. It was not written by US citizens. "
lodidian wrote on Jul 28, 2009 8:49 PM:
Why the big rush to approve Obama's national healthcare program? Why does it take over 1,000 pages to document it? Why should the "rich" pay for it? Why force everyone to participate? Why not do some criticle annalysis of the current system, then begin working to improve it? "
danielh wrote on Jul 28, 2009 11:42 AM:
Yes, I included AIDS, and I mean it.
She was considered an enemy, not against people, but against a corporation called UNITED STATES. They raided her, seized all of her files and her laboratory equipment, and her money.
She did not have any funds to defend herself, and she did not have a laboratory to defend her own body against cancer.
The criminals in Washington care only to save the sinking vessel UNITED STATES, more than the lives that are lost to keep the ship afloat. "
danielh wrote on Jul 28, 2009 11:38 AM:
danielh wrote on Jul 28, 2009 11:37 AM:
Uhhh....
People are just starting to figure out, after it is aleady too late.
I was saying these things since before the internet was invented, and that was already too late.
If people are criticizing the elected officials in all three branches of government, they still do not have the key to get out of this trouble, and quite frankly, I don't know if I have the key either. "
Cogito wrote on Jul 28, 2009 10:11 AM:
stantaves wrote on Jul 28, 2009 9:42 AM:
Mazie wrote on Jul 28, 2009 8:48 AM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJFyRu3XLnE
just for a laugh LOL "
Cogito wrote on Jul 28, 2009 8:42 AM:
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Cogito wrote on Jul 28, 2009 8:29 AM:
stella wrote on Jul 28, 2009 7:37 AM:
Mazie wrote on Jul 28, 2009 7:18 AM:
Cogito wrote on Jul 28, 2009 7:16 AM:
Mazie wrote on Jul 28, 2009 7:15 AM:
Cogito wrote on Jul 28, 2009 7:14 AM:
voter wrote on Jul 28, 2009 6:48 AM:
Mazie wrote on Jul 28, 2009 6:20 AM:
God be with us if his health care passes. "
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