by admin | November 5th, 2009
Healthcare, provided DMV style to the masses, but…for our elected “representatives?” Special extra good, but not for us, health care access to them. The rest of the story? It’s a pack of lies, buried deep in a long document, that won’t be easily discovered until things “go into motion,” or if someone really does a good forensic reading, tracing back each and every referenced item.
I know. I used to live by government documents and learned how to make sure I fully complied with all that was in there. You have to do it with one person. If you don’t the “connectivity” of all the requirements will be missed, as to their impact from, or on other parts, which will be required during actual implementation. Yes, I wrote a few myself, too. Making it clear, within that type of culture and format was still a challenge. Side effect: trying to update/change? Big effort, and the bigger the document, the longer it takes. Been there, done that, too.
Back to the irregularly scheduled commentary:
Oh, and do you think Congress think they think they own the fruits of your labor? Oh, yes they do. Let’s wrap this in the sheep’s clothing of “Universal Health Care.” Remember we were only talking a $1.6T Health Care cost? Now it’s a wee bit bigger…and it’s your dollars at their work (to secure more votes, from people too ignorant, coming out of a failed educational system, who think everything is for free, if a politician promises it to them), now it’s more: $2.4T! Oh, yes, and in 5 years, the “you can keep your health care promise? For 5 years….then they own you and your liver, heart, and probably what you are allowed to drink and not smoke and will put a GPS unit on you to make sure you go to the Guv’ment workout facility as scheduled, or you’ll be denied care, since you didn’t prevent your condition you’re now at the emergency room for…lovely. Hey, good luck with a Guv’ment contracted health club being top of the line with well paid and well educated staff. Do you see that anywhere else, besides the US Military, and then the pay isn’t that spectacular?
Side note: What government program has even come in on or even under budget? What has not, in every major program the federal Government has crafted, not blown way past the estimates when al lis said and done? Yep, you’re right. None of them. So, how stupid are we to believe the same people who keep telling us how much something is going to cost keep being shown to be wrong, and we quote them as though they have it perfectly managed?
“Pre-existing conditions” covered? Fools! You thought they meant that? Yeah…if you can wait 6 months. If you’ve got the time, you can research how that’s working out in Britain and Canada, and other socialized medicine countries: Either it’s and evil method to control big costs, or it’s a purely pragmatic recognition of the way the “evil insurance” companies were doing business, so as to not loose money and go out of business. At the end of the day, it just “clears the docket” (lawyer speak for “someone just plead and we don’t have to set up for an expensive trial and backlog the overloaded already schedule”), but this time it means the funeral business is about to become the best investment you can make! I should see if some investigative reporter can find out it the White House and Congressional office holders are already invested in such enterprises. Call me cynical, but aren’t all these links making my very point?
Nope, there will be no “Death Panels!” Yeah! Oh, wait. What will occur is in the pragmatism that will be necessary to comply with the reduced funding is a medical professional typing in the desired protocols for treatment for your malady, the computer being tied directly to the central health care system in DC (or Chicago). After some moments of the systems communicating, you will have get a “I’m very sorry. The budget for that treatment was all used up in the first 18 days of the fiscal year. Would you like to come back in Early October and see if we can apply again?” What’s your response? “No…what can we do to help me ‘handle” this?” I’m sure those “blue pills” will be made available quickly. No doors with “Death Panel Board Room” stenciled on them. Instead, it will say “Doctor ________’s Office.” and the occupants will not be doing it out of choice, but out of the reality of the economic stresses of the system, and the control by a centralized office that decided what’s good for the society as a whole and the individual there is but a numbered citizen, noting more. It shall not be done intentionally, and I susepct, some will leave the medical care profession, for they will not be able to bear up to that necessary discussion. One the other hand, from the Government’s view, it will make them help “us” take “personal responsibility” for not being a burden on the system.
States being allowed to “opt out?” Good luck with that. If your citizens ever want to see another dime of the money from taxpayers in another state, then you’re now most likely obligated to stick with the plan. States Rights? Hey, it’s in The Constitution, but why does that matter to the “leadership” anymore? If they are willing to contract out to automate scraping any and all commentary about the President, you know…for “history’s sake,” then they don’t really care about the spirit, they’re lawyers and it’s all about just the words….you know, it depends on the definition of what “is” means, right? In a 1990+ page bill, I’m sure the bureaucrats managed to make sure the path to “getting out” is long, laborious (maybe even ensures it’s not even the Governors who can decide) set of processes, which, if all else is a possibility of happening, can be slow rolled in an in basket, long enough that you have to either “start over” or can only do it one time, and one time only…Yes, that’s how it works. Ask those people who had Federal funding to build a runway at the Hampton Roads Regional airport, and the land offsets approved…it hung around at the EPA until the Federal money to do it expired legislatively…so…no bigger airport for you General Aviation people, might chase a few squirrels and snakes away.
Add to this another interesting legal concept, which, may not even be an original observation by me: “Choice Crime.” It’s an interim step before full blown “Thought Crime” criminality. Yes, ladies and gentlemen and children of majority ages! If you “choose” not to participate as you are directed (yeah, I saw that no where in the main legal document this country now only pretends to live up to), you can be charged, fined and possibly sent to “incarceration.” this is but a method of using the law to demand access to more of your money, for you know, we promised not to raise “taxes.” Like typical lawyers, who see words and not concepts (but they sure will tell us it’s “the SPIRIT!” of the law if the words aren’t there), making you pay a fee for service out of your post tax dollars it makes it not “tax” but the cost of service…you know, like keeping your roads and bridges functional, and the schools operating, using “tax” money…oops! I’m sure I’m not supposed to connect those existing methods to this discussion for fear of reminding people how things already are and what they are called and for what purpose.
Next stop: “Thought Crimes!” Oh, wait…that happened last week in the FY 2010 DoD Budget signed by the President to protect our Nation, and to protect those who are offended if someone else voices an opinion. Nice association!
I’ll go out on a limb and some predictions:
Prediction 1: The legislation for Government mandated health care begins taking money soon, but does not functionally. “We the People” will not actually see how this massive system, which by that description alone should tell a story, will impact our daily lives and out future until Oct 2013 (the beginning of the fiscal year). By then, President Obama may have been re-elected, and then, have time to settle back into working at the White House, but with enough lead time, if the voices cry out loud enough, to then call for a reversal of the “failed strategy.” It would be in character. He would, however, also have to ask for more money to repair the blighted (by his own hand, and his Party’s) to rebuild the medical system, having forced/chased most professionals out of the system by then.
Prediction 2: If he survives the first onslaught, or it never comes, the 5 years from now, when the “single payer system will be one of two (yes, two – the Politicians will have there, we will have “single payer”) will look to take over completely, closing down the entire medical insurance industry, he will also have that “trip wire” to turn around and become the “Savior” of the industry and those it serves, after, by his own hand and that of his Party’s) pretty much decimating it.
If I was to buy into a quite cynical and Machiavellian construct, then I’d like to know where the President and his close inner circle have placed their money. An analysis now may not tell the answer, but if when the stock prices of those two portions of the industry begin to become penny stocks, the flow of cash in will tell who has been planning what. It would be much like the Al Gore model of telling us we all need carbon credits (I guess there wasn’t any methane credit company), while investing in a company that should them, and while convincing the federal Government, via his political influence, to send stimulus money to his own privately held invested in company. If the President and his close advisers and the power brokers in Congress, now that they real estate market has collapsed, could position themselves to drain the working capital out of the medical industry…..
On a humorous note: Diane Sawyer confronted Al Gore a few nights back about how methane is 20x more damaging to the atmosphere than CO2. He still has settled on telling us CO2 needs to be offset. Referring to my parenthetical comment above, I guessing there hasn’t been a methane mitigating process developed, like we have with CO2 (plants absorb what we give off). So, if someone can come up with a way to offset cow farts….actually any and all farts created on the planet, I’d say you stand to be a worth $20B off your investment in at least proving you can sell “fart credits.”
On a not so humorous note: This will be a divisive, ugly mess, in just getting it signed, to what happens in medical offices all around the nation. The “great Uniter” doesn’t care about our voices, only his agenda. The pools tell us that clearly. I bet no one is telling him what he needs to know. Probably spells expulsion from the inner circles or power, with prejudice, and a dead fish in your bed.
When the effects of this malignancy are seen, its architects will be hunted down like rabid dogs.