President Obama Focuses on Health Care

Posted on March 7, 2009 by billmanzi

President Barack Obama focuses on the staggering unemployment numbers for February, as well as the urgent need for health care reform. And before we hear any criticism let us consider what our current health care system has brought. An unsustainable cost structure that would, if left unattended, swallow the entire economy. It is swallowing huge swarths of it now. The emphasis is right, the prescription is on the way.

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8 Responses to President Obama Focuses on Health Care

  1. Jules Gordon says:
    March 7, 2009 at 7:52 am

    Your Honor,
    This is a large step on Obama’s drive to hijack our constitution democracy into a Socialism.

    It will create a huge federal bureaucracy that will initially be under funded. Over time the costs will rise and rationing will limit the patients treatment. Between Medicare, health care social security our entitlements will take a substantial part of the yearly budget, already overloaded with them.

    In the end the bureaucracy will become bloated and future “reforms” will add to the burden and, of course, the situation will become worse.

    You may also find a decline in health care givers. After all they will be relegated to being government employees.

    Now we will be taking the country one huge step toward socialism and making the populace beholding to the Democratic party. I can’t imagine using Massachusetts as a model for the federal government.

    Since the President has pulled together all this health care intelligentsia maybe they can come up with ideas that fits a true democracy.

    That’s my take on the matter.

    Jules

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  2. Jim says:
    March 7, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    To my well meaning friend Jules,

    You have such wisdom and knowledge to share with this country on all things political. Have you ever been asked to be an adviser on any presidential cabinet. If not, tsk, tsk on us. 😉

    Then, perhaps my good friend you could consider filling in for OxyRush Limpball on the divisive, right-wing airwaves should he die before health-care is enacted…

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  3. Jules Gordon says:
    March 7, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    Jim,

    How about answering my charge of socialism. I would say that by opposing the President’s policies (100%) he would not ask me. How about you? Has he asked you?

    Your rush rage is meaningless.

    Your well meaning friend, Jules

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  4. Fred Mertz says:
    March 8, 2009 at 6:58 am

    Jim:

    What our right honorable friend seems to forget is that we’ve tried his free market solution: HMOs and insurance companies spend more than 35% on every health care dollar on administration and profit margins. As a result, we pay the most in the world, and get the least results. He’s rightly afraid that someone is at last shining a light on the problem and beginning to address it, because his beloved oligarchs might have to sell a private plane, maybe give up a nanny so that the rest of us don’t have to pay seven dollars for an aspirin at the hospital. He really hasn’t looked and compared the administrative efficiency of programs such as Social(ist) Security and Medicare with the private sector, because he’s afraid of what he’ll find out. I’d predict it wouldn’t change his world view to know it, though, so no reason to illustrate the inconvenient truths for him.

    Don’t forget his party’s version of health care reform (Medicare Part D drug benefits) specifically disallow the government from negotiating on our (or his) behalf for the price of drugs, so we pay whatever the drug companies say we should. Now, I ask you, where else in the world would this be considered a good solution? Unless you’re a stock holder (oh, wait, those guys have taken quite a beating lately) or a bonus-baby executive, I guess.

    We always seem to know what they’re against (100%, ad hominem), but when it comes time to be for something constructive, what do we hear, what do they do? I guess the “terrorist” bell isn’t working as well as it used to, so let’s try “socialist” and see what happens. If we repeat it enough, maybe the Pavlovian dogs will drool for us one more time ….

    Don’t worry, Jim: I hear that our friends in the “we share one brain, the brain of Rush” party might have to find another outlet, what with Clear Channel’s financial issues …

    http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090211/big-media-debt-headaches-clear-channel-today-cbs-next-week/

    -FM

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  5. Jules Gordon says:
    March 8, 2009 at 8:55 am

    Jim and Fred,

    So the experiment in democracy begun by George Washington et al has failed.

    What model do you fellows want to change too?

    Jules

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  6. Jim says:
    March 8, 2009 at 12:03 pm

    Fred = the antithesis of Jules.

    My God men! Where do you find the time to do research?!!

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  7. Fred Mertz says:
    March 8, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    On the contrary, my good friend: the experiment in democracy lives and breathes, though on life support by the concentration of wealth and from the corrupting effects of money and the promotion of falsehood in politics.

    The experiment in global capitalism, however, lies wounded on the table. Its recovery is by no means certain, and will undoubtedly change in behavior and scope over the next succeeding years.

    Don’t confuse the two.

    -FM

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  8. Fred Mertz says:
    March 8, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    Jim:

    I have an unfortunate habit of surfing the web while watching evening television: that way, I can absorb neither and still believe I can effectively multitask.

    Ohh, look at that: Sarah Mclachlan and sad looking kittens.

    Now, where were we?

    -FM

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