Obama Healthcare is DOA

Obama's Healthcare Plan appears DOA for several reasons: First, it's ridiculously expensive at a time when the country is near-broke. Second, Obama has done a poor job at even explaining what it is. People don't understand. Third, his cost justifications are absurd. He says that he is going to save hundreds of billions of dollars by eliminating "unnecessary tests". How on earth do government burocrats know what "unnecessary tests" are? If doctors prescribe tests, then it is presumed that they are necessary.

Obama should forget about an "insurance" solution and simply focus on providing low cost services for free to the poor: Build free health clinics and free "charity" hospitals. The poor can be taken care of there, but there should be "means testing".

I think that Obama is full of BS when he says that our healthcare system is "broken". It is one of the best in the world, if not THE best. Even many poor people are taken care of via Medicare and Medicaid.

And what about Obama's seeming assumption that the alleged 48 million uninsured are all tragically too poor to pay for health insurance. Is that really the case? How many of the uninsured simply prefer to spend their money on something else? Insurance is an intangible, and a lot of people simply ignore it, until it's too late. Especially if they aren't very bright.

Also,, large numbers of the uninsured are not American citizens, and are not our responsibility. if they want to live and work here, then they should be paying for insurance.

A good solution might be to simply expand the EXISTING public health service, as well as Veteran's medical services. Perhaps the uninsured could get medical care thru Veterans' or an expanded military medical corp.

The army medical corp is very practical. If you are sick, you do not immediately see a doctor. You first see a medic, who is an enlisted man with a few months of training. If the person is indeed sick, they can progress to a nurse, GP or medical specialist, as needed.

There needs to be a realization that you get what you pay for. The government should not be providing the poor with free Rolls Royces. But mass transportation should be available. Free clinics and hospitals would probably involve fairly long waits and might not have the best doctors. There would be much more use made of medics and physicians assistants.

A Little ObaHypocrisy on Private Jets

Remember when the CEO's of the former Big 3 automakers came to Washington? Obama and the rest of the Democrats made this whole big deal about how these horrible, terrible CEO's were flying on private jets. Apparently they were supposed to come to Washington on Amtrak or something.

But we see Obama's massive hypocrisy when he takes Airforce One, and 5 jillion Secret Service guys with him as he takes Michelle out for a date. Pretty expensive date. But no problem, the taxpayer is paying. Just taxpayers making over $250,000 a year, I'm shore.

Isn't it rather inappropriate for a government that is $3,456,333,555,555,222,666 in debt to be taking spit-shined, corporate jumbo jets out for a date?

But getting back to the CEO's, this IDIOTIC obsession that top corporate executives are supposed to fly economy class reveals the fact that Congress is TOTALLY DEVOID of business knowledge.

Here's a couple things to think about. The hourly wage of the CEO's of any of the Big 3 automakers is probably almost as much as a first class ticket. 1. Does it make economic sense to have the CEO standing in line for 2 hours waiting to get frisked? Does it make sense to have the most important man at GM or Ford sitting on a runway somewhere for an hour or two while the flight is delayed? Does it make sense for him to have to sit at Timbuktoo International Airport because flights were cancelled due to bad weather in New York? Does it make sense to have the most important person at GM or Ford UNABLE to use his cell phone or laptop for a couple hours? Does it make sense for him to have to delay critical meetings because the next flight to the coast doesn't leave for 5 hours?

The fact that the BOZO in Congress was making a big deal about these guys not taking public transportation reveals how totally CLUELESS some of these Congressional AIRHEADS are. They know absolutely NOTHING about the functioning of a huge, critical corporation.

Sure, there are lots of problems with the Big 3. But the solution is NOT to have the CEO waste hours and hours on public transportation! That is just a waste of a valuable resource.

draft 2: 6/16/09

Obama's Health Care Plan is DOA

Obama's health care plan is DOA. It is a dim-witted plan that will yield massive corruption and degrade American medical care.

A much better plan is to simply leave the U.S. health care system alone. More free clinics and charity hospitals could be built that would take care of the poor and the uninsured. No, they would not be able to get non-essential services for free. Yes, they might have to wait for a long time. No, they would not be able to select their own doctors. Yes, they might get lousier doctors. Good doctors want to make money (they aren't idiots).

A good approach would be expand the public health system, and possible the Veteran's Administration and even the military medical corps. In the army, when you have a cold, you don't get to see a doctor. You see a medic, who has had a couple months of training.

Hey, yuh get what yuh pay for!!!

Obama says that he is going to pay for his plan by saving billions of dollars on un-necessary tests. So are government burocrats now going to tell doctors that the tests that they are prescribing are "unnecessary"? I don't get it. How is Obama going to eliminate billions of dollars in "unnecessary" tests.

And when is a test "unnecessary"? If they gave you a test for cancer, and it turned out negative, was that "unnecessary"? How does a freeking lawyer like Obama know so freeking much about medicine? For that matter, how does he more about the auto industry than all 3 CEO's of the Big 3 combined?

Obama keeps blathering about how the American health care system is "broken". I would say that that is hardly the case. The American system is the best in the world. Top doctors from all over the world would KILL to come to America. The people who go into medicine are the smartest people around. But that will no longer be the case if Obama starts making them work at minimum wage.

Who wants to go thru 30 years of rigorous education, internships and residencies just to make the same salary as a plumber? If doctors don't make big money, then the smartest people will no longer go into medicine. That's the way the world works.

And another thing. Obama talks about the alleged 48 million uninsured as if they are all victims of economic catastrophy. This is not necessarily the case. If you look a little closer, you'll probably that 10 or 20 million of those people COULD afford health insurance, but they would rather spend the money on other things. After all, insurance is an "intangible" that a lot of (dumb) people don't think is really necessary.

Another thing is that HUGE numbers of uninsured are recent or illegal immigrants.

So this idea that all of the alleged 48 million uninsured are tragic victims who could not possible afford health insurance is simply not accurate.

It also should be noted that huge numbers of poor people get free or cheap medical care thru Medicare or Medicaid. So Obama should keep his big yap shut.

During the campaign, Obama kept harping away about how bad the economy was until HE broke it. He broke it by undermining confidence in the American economy. Obama is apparently too inexperienced and too stupid to understand the effect of his words.

Draft 1: Not very good. 6/16/09