I just found this PDF, Shattered Lives: One Hundred Victims of Governmental Health Care and I think you should read it. If you’re a fan of UHC (universal health care), you’re probably going to pass this off as right-wing propaganda. Sorry to disapoint, but everything is footnoted and backed up with news stories.

You may also think, “It’s just 100 stories over eight countries, it’s insignificant anecdotal stores.” Okay, do YOU want to take the chance that you might be one of them? Then there is the “Private-run health care is the same.” Is it? Truly? Read some of the stories, like a man who waits 36 months for a 20 minute operation. Like the woman who only had one part of an operation done. And on, and on, and on. While they might seem to be anecdotal, they are actually a sampling of a wider problem in each of these countries. You cannot read these stories and not be moved by them. They are the reasons why UHC doesn’t work. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Be wise.

I am hot on this health care thing for many reasons. I don’t want my health controled by Washington. I don’t want to have anyone but me making decisions for me. I don’t want 15% of our economy nationalized. Take your pick.

Don’t let President Obama get away with this. Keep pressuring your Congressmen and pushing them on the subject. Get them to vote no on H. R. 3200. Make sure they kill this dead, dead, dead so it does not rise from the grave like a zombie. Pelosi and Reid may push it, but if enough vote against it, then it won’t pass.

This thought came to me a day or two ago. It will show just how insidious and terrifing socialized health care really is.

Do you remember the writing by the Protestant minister in Nazi Germany? You know, “At first they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I didn’t speak up. Then they came for the Catholics…..”

It will soon be replaced by something like, “At first they came for the obese, but I was not overweight, …” If the federal government gets control of your health care, they will demand behavior modification in order “to keep costs down.” So, you will be refused health care, or your rates will go up if you are not at “the ideal weight.” They will outlaw hamburgers, fries and soft drinks, because everyone knows they cause obese people. So, McDonalds, Burger King, et.al., will all be forced out of buisness, or into the salad only market.

Then they will go after smokers. Then after that they will outlaw motorcycles because of their high heath rate. Who knows where they will go after that. All I know is they will force themselves into every aspect of our lives.

Which brings me to my next point. I went to a presentation on the Obama health care plan by an economist. He was very neutral and did not express his opinion one way or the other. But some of the points he covered were very interesting.

First of all, he talked about the “iron triangle,” which consists of “slowing the growth of health care costs,” “quality,” and “number of people covered.” It’s like the old addage, “Fast, cheap, good. Pick any two.” Well, he said we could cover two of these corners, and while possible, it is very unlikely to cover all three points of the iron triangle.

Second, he said that there is no “Obama health care plan.” He’s been speaking a lot of words, but hasn’t written any of them down as yet. The only thing that’s on paper is H.R. 3200, which I have talked about at length before. That’s Congress’s plan, not Obamas.

Third, H.R. 3200 is only a framework, to be fleshed out later. So, those of us on the Right are fearful that H. R. 3200 is a “trojan horse” to which that more bad things will be attached once the Liberals get H. R. 3200 in the door. That fear is justified, as all you have to do is look at history.

When Liberals and Conservatives compromise on something, the Conservative thinks the matter is done. The liberal thinks that it is only the first step. So, Liberals come back next week, and ask to compromise again, this time at the 25 yard line, then the 12, 6, 3, 1, and finally the Liberal gets exactly what he wants. Which is why Conservatives must work to destroy Liberalism rather than compromise, because Liberalism is working to destroy Conservativeism.

To get back to the original point, remember that if Obama gets his way, you will lose your ability to choose because in the name of the “public interest” your obedience will be demanded.

Okay. I just finished skimming over all 1,017 pages of the health care reform bill.

First thing, I hate lawerese. I am reminded of the old NBC series “Ed,” where an ex-lawyer comes back to his hometown to run a bowling alley. He revealed in one episode why he did what he did. He drew up a contract, and put one comma in the wrong place. The law firm he worked at lost $2.5 million for that comma in the wrong spot.

Anyhow, it’s full of exacting language as to who does what, who can do what, and so on. I’m no lawyer, so I am no expert on this. So, I did a Google search and came up with this explaination. It’s a chilling read.

Your privacy would go out the door. Your choices would go out the door. Your freedom by a large margin would go out the door, never to return.

You should speak out against this bill. The nationalization of 15% of our economy should be enough to serve as a warning as to what the President wants to do. President Obama has surrounded himself with self-admitted Socialists and Communists. With them in power, you should take a tight grip upon your freedoms and not let them go.

And as with all things government, once they start something, getting them to stop it is impossible.

If you are not speaking out against this bill, you should be, but only if you value your freedoms. Write your Congressperson about this. They might not listen to just your letter, but if your letter is the 10,000th one to cross their desk, it might just be the one to change their mind. My Congresscritter has already said flat out on the radio that he’s going to vote the way he wants to, rather than listening to the people of his district. Remember things like that on Election Day, when you vote his sorry ass out and vote in someone who will listen to the will of the people.

It’s the job of a citizen to keep his mouth open. Make sure you are voicing your own opinion and not what the 10 second sound bites are telling you to think.

I have found a copy of  H. R. 3200, the health care reform bill. I am going over it line by line, and will let you know what I find.

Okay folks, I found this article a few days ago, and I have been mulling over it.

The article talks about how health care is already rationed. Like the story of the 80 year-old smoker who is not getting a lung transplant, doctors decide who lives and who dies, based on what level of care exists to take care of everybody.

Liberals have things backwards. They view the “economic pie” of the United States and see it as a static size, where if you add more people, everyone gets thinner slices. But when they look at the “health care pie,” they see it as a limitless expansion, and everybody, no matter how many there are, gets a full slice of the pie. But those views are inverted.

You see, America economically has almost limitless expansion. When you start a business and hire people to work for you, this expands the size of the economic pie. Granted, some get a bigger slice than others, but if you look closer, you will see that there is a big difference in effort expended between the executive with the 7-figure income and the minimum wage worker at a fast-food place. The guy who has the 7-figure income started at a burger joint, but worked to put himself through college, earned an MBA, then worked countless overtime hours to make it to where he is now. The other guy who is still at the minimum wage job after 3 years spends his off time doing drugs and impregnating random females. Do you see the disparity there? Liberals don’t.

But when you look at the health care pie, this is a fixed size. There is literally only so many doctors, nurses and medical equipment. A doctor can only see so many patients in a day. If we add 47 million more people (don’t worry, the true number of those who are involuntarily insured is more like 11.5 million) without adding more capacity, what do you think will happen?

If you thought the health care crisis is bad now, wait until all of those people are given “free” health care. It will be like Canada, where you will wait months for any non-emergency surgery or procedure that isn’t immediately life-threatening. I ruptured a disc in my back some 15 years ago while out of town. I had it fixed within 7 days of my return to Memphis. Now, can you imagine the pain and unnecessary paralysis of my foot, not to mention potential permanent damage because I didn’t get it fixed in a timely manner? That’s what you’ll get when you have Canada style rationing.

Just remember, which way are the people going? How many Americans are boarding badly built rafts and risk their lives to cross 90 minles of open water to land in Cuba? How many Americans are fleeing the US to get needed procedures and tests from Canada? The Americans aren’t, but the Cubans and Canadians are.

As a final thought, Socialism is said (by those who don’t have to live under it) to be a workers paradise. It is a paradise, but only for those in charge. You know, the ones that are “more equal” than everybody else?