Month: May 2016

 

At my place of employment I’m surrounded by flaming libs many people of  the “liberal” persuasion.  Being one of the few “out of the closet” conservatives there, I get the chance to banter about politics and other social issues with them.  The conversations have to be brief and to the point as we usually do this on our employers dime. Usually it goes like this, for example, I bring some news reports of some  progressive outrage against peoples constitutional rights on college  campuses.  They look at me bewildered and say “What! no way!  It’s like they have no idea what’s going on around them.  Now these are very nice people. Our rapport is always civil. They have their opinions I have mine.  Most are staunch Bernie supporters and don’t have  a very high opinion of Hillary. They are appalled that Bernie seems to be winning the votes but losing the delegates.    In the end though if Hillary gets the nomination a good percentage will vote for her because she is A. a women, B. a progressive democrat, C. a Clinton, D. the alternative is Trump and finally E. any republican. They live in a liberal bubble where all their information comes from “The New York Times. the Times Argus, and Time magazine.

Well deepred what about you? Don’t you live in a conservative bubble? Well I say it’s impossible to live in a conservative bubble. With ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN and 95 % of the print media, academia, and Yahoo,   all towing the party line. And it’s not so much what that report but what they choose not to.  The White house press corps are such know nothing sycophants that even Obama has no respect for them. Ben Rhodes the White House national security advisor and one of Obama’s closest aides is currently trying to backtrack on his gaff.  A gaff as you know is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

David Horowitz, David Mamet. and the late Andrew Breitbart, to name three were all left leaning personalities would had a “come to Reagan” conversion, abandoned the liberal dogma,  realized that inside most committed  liberals is a totalitarian screaming to get out.  President Obama is a prime example with his latest “edict” that says that women and girls can no longer expect the privacy of their own gender in the “ladies room” and that insurance companies will now be forced to underwrite “sex change operations”. Obama is not a king but when the so called opposition party crawls into the fetal position every time he makes and “executive order”, well it’s understandable.

In the meantime North Korea is getting Nukes, China and Russia are kicking sand in our faces. we’re $20 Trillion in debt, And the Constitution is slowly going through the shredder.

The libs I know just want the rich to pay their “fair share”, everyone to use renewable energy to combat climate change, and to have “free healthcare” for everyone.  They’re not bad people but what they want can’t be achieved except by government force. And that’s when things will get sticky.

Oxymoron: Tolerant liberal

 

 

From The Daily  Wire.  Hopefully what happened to Nikolai Bukharin won’t happen to Ms.  Camille Paglia for the crime of failing to tow the party line .

It’s coming, government control of health care. “Population Health”,  here is how I see it.

• ” What does it mean?” It means Hospitals will no longer have to try and attract customers. They will be assigned. By who? I’m guessing our state government under the direction of the federal.  And who are the people going to be assigned, not “everyone” in a community of course…right.  Maybe just the 3.7%  without health insurance?   But isn’t everyone required by law to purchase it? A lot of people work part time, they can’t afford it. Many are not in the work force at all. They are not counted as unemployed, but they are still part of the community.  what of illegal aliens all the “undocumented people” that are streaming across our border…everyday. Those that settle in our community, will they be assigned? Of course they will. Will the elderly also be assigned?    As an added bonus you’re no longer responsible for your own health or the health of your offspring. It’s the hospitals responsibility “From birth to death”.
• “How do we fit in?” The hospital wants a person to stay healthy. Nothing wrong with that. Most normal people want to be healthy. But as in most cases it’s 20% of the population that account for 80% of the cost. You have cigarette smokers, drug abusers,  people who are very overweight,  alcoholics,  depressed people.  People being beaten up regularly by their “significant others”. Finally the elderly who with age related ailments put an increasing strain on hospital services, and are an ever growing percentage.   Looking at the all these “factors”, their “physical and social environments or their individual habits and behaviors” one can certainly encourage a person that a change in lifestyle would greatly benefit their physical and emotional well being. But what if encouragement and an offering of other options and services doesn’t work? Will it take some form of coercion?
• “How do we get paid now?” People who have coverage through an employer pay premiums pre-taxed out of their paychecks, (the employer subsidizes a large portion also, sometimes well over half the cost). The patient has a co-pay of a set amount for medications, doctors visits or trips to the ER. The Hospital or Doctor submits a bill to the insurance company for say $9000.  The insurance reimburses $4900. The patient gets a “statement” in the mail that all he owes is the co-pay.  This seem to work as it also helps cover the cost of people who have no means of paying anything.  The Vermont health exchange sells policies with varying premiums and deductibles, which for some is still out of reach.  But if this new system is working which according to the media it is, then why are we headed to “population health”?
• “How would payment work? The hospital would be “paid a fixed dollar amount” by the government from taxpayers to care for “everyone in a community assigned to our care.”  “The focus is to drive down cost…and prevent hospital admissions.” .

So it appears that in the future there will be “X” amount of dollars to take care “X” number of people. Will there be a set dollar amount for each person regardless of their health status. Lets for example say that the hospital receives “$5,000,000 a year to care for 500 people “assigned from birth till death” That’s $10,000 per person. Not much since dozens of people will shoot past that amount. Many through no fault of their own. Many on account of their lifestyle and bad habits. Will “tough love” be employed.  Clean up your act or no further treatment!  And what of the elderly? They say that the last six months of life can be the most expensive. Physician assisted suicide will be available. Will it be encouraged…to save money. Will parents with fetuses that could have possible birth defects be encouraged to abort…to save money. This is of course rationing. Help those who can be helped and want to help themselves. Reject those who can’t be helped or won’t help themselves.

Government has access to everyone’s medical records. They’re only a mouse click away.  Will decisions of life and death that were the preview of the patient, the patients family and the physician now include a forth, a  government bureaucrat who will decide yea or nay bases on cost? He who pays the piper calls the tune.

This is a brave new world we’re entering.  A nation of former free individuals with free will slowly becoming a herd… “the population”. And it seems the slide is inexorable.

Obamacare was intended to fail from the beginning. So single payer and further government control over the people will be the final result.