DEMOCRATS WIN DEBATE --- FREEDOM LOSES
The debate over the so-called “Patient’s Bill of Rights” will continue this week in the Senate. My guess? The Democratic Socialists will win and liberty will lose. As one Democrat spokesman said over the weekend, “How can Bush afford to veto anything called The Patient’s Bill of Rights?”
This spokesman hit the nail on the head. It’s all in the name. It’s all in the title. He knows, as so many other Democrats and Republicans do, that the dumb masses in this country will not look one word further than the title. No extra reading, no investigation, no questions … nothing. The title is good enough for them, as the politicians pushing it knew it would be. The mental debate of the average American goes only so far. Everybody knows that anything called a “Bill of Rights” must be good. This thing is called a “Bill of Rights,” therefore, it must be OK. End of thought process.
So, what is the goal of this bill? Admittedly, the goal is to address some of the problems that have arisen in our move to HMOs, PPOs and other types of managed care. The socialists in government, though, have hijacked this bill and added provisions that are aimed at just one goal – creating chaos in the delivery of medical care.
Since the 1950s the singular goal of the Democrat Party in this country insofar as health care is concerned has been to establish some form of socialized medicine in the United States. Every single piece of legislation supported or proposed by Democrats for decades has moved us ever nearer to a full-fledged system of government managed health care.
Have Americans completely forgotten the ill-fated HillaryCare proposal of 1993? This proposal would have placed an additional 17 percent of our gross domestic product (our economy, for those of you with Camaros) under the direct control of the Imperial Federal Government. If you’ve forgotten that hideous piece of Democrat legislation, here’s a gentle reminder. Under HillaryCare if you decided to find a doctor to provide you with medical care outside of the government plan, and you took the money that you worked for and you earned and used that money to pay that doctor for his medical services, both you and your “private” doctor would have committed a crime and would be subject to criminal prosecution. Can you imagine that? Finding a licensed doctor to administer legal medical care, and paying that doctor for his services, would be a crime!!!
Oh, but it sounds so good, doesn’t it! Boortz says that this bill is going to create some degree of chaos. Boortz says that this bill will cause private employers to drop their insurance programs. Boortz says that health insurance costs, and premiums will increase! Don’t listen to the radio blowhard! He doesn’t know what he’s talking about!
To be sure, the Democrats assure us that there are “safe harbor” provisions in the act that will protect employers from medical malpractice lawsuits. Well, that’s just great, isn’t it! We’ll just take their word for it. They say that employers won’t get sued, that’s good enough for me!
But I seem to remember similar assurances from the leftists with another piece of legislation called the Americans with Disabilities Act. They told us that this bill wouldn’t lead to idiotic lawsuits too, didn’t they? They promised us that there were all sorts of protections built in the ADA for employers who made a good faith effort to comply with the law. And what do we end up with? Well, a school system in Florida can’t fire a superintendent with multiple shoplifting convictions because his thievery is the result of a disability. A trucking company can’t fire a driver with one eye. That’s discrimination. A strip club in California is cited because a stripper uses a portable shower stall in her act on stage – because the shower stall isn’t handicapped accessible.
Then there was the Clean Water Act. Hey! Who could argue with this? Wassamattau? You against clean water or something? Some right wing “reactionaries” said that the wetlands provisions in this bill would infringe on the rights of private landowners. “No way!” said the leftist enviro-radicals. We are assured that the bill is very plain – that the wetland provisions can only apply to waters “appurtenant to the navigable waterways of the United States.” So --- the Clean Water Act passes. What happens? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gets the nod for enforcing the wetlands provisions, the “Glancing Geese” doctrine is established, and homeowner are cited and fined for putting fill dirt in low-lying spots in their back yards --- many miles away from an “navigable waterway.”
Now these same alarmists right wing reactionaries who warned the country about the ADA and the Clean Water Act are sounding the alarm of the Patient’s Bill of Rights. Again, the left says “No way!” “That will never happen!” “The legislation forbids it!”
So, this time we’re going to believe them? This time we’re going to take them at their word? Isn’t that the definition of insanity? You know, doing the same thing time after time again and always expecting a different result? The left has placed that football on the kicking tee again --- and here comes right-wing Charlie Brown just ready to kick the dog squeeze out of it. If you’ve been reading the cartoon strip for any time at all you know just what is going to happen.
As Brit Hume said on Fox News Sunday yesterday …. “Why in the world would you put a provision in this bill allowing people to sue their employers? What is the thinking process behind that?”
Brit Hume knows what the thinking process is. Again – to create chaos. The Democrats absolutely want employers to drop their health insurance coverage. They want hundreds of thousands, even millions of additional Americans to become “uninsured!” And when they do become uninsured they want to make it as tough as they can for these people to go out there and buy their own health insurance policies. That’s why Democrats defeated an amendment to the Patient’s Bill of Rights making privately purchased health insurance policies tax deductible. Once these people are cut loose from their employer-provided health insurance, the leftists want them to flounder about with no real affordable options. Then – then they’ll demand a solution from --- guess who? --- GOVERNMENT!
It’s all so simple. Create the problem, then present yourself as the solution. It’s a game the left plays so well, and a game the right seems unable to defend against.
The debate over the so-called “Patient’s Bill of Rights” will continue this week in the Senate. My guess? The Democratic Socialists will win and liberty will lose. As one Democrat spokesman said over the weekend, “How can Bush afford to veto anything called The Patient’s Bill of Rights?”
This spokesman hit the nail on the head. It’s all in the name. It’s all in the title. He knows, as so many other Democrats and Republicans do, that the dumb masses in this country will not look one word further than the title. No extra reading, no investigation, no questions … nothing. The title is good enough for them, as the politicians pushing it knew it would be. The mental debate of the average American goes only so far. Everybody knows that anything called a “Bill of Rights” must be good. This thing is called a “Bill of Rights,” therefore, it must be OK. End of thought process.
So, what is the goal of this bill? Admittedly, the goal is to address some of the problems that have arisen in our move to HMOs, PPOs and other types of managed care. The socialists in government, though, have hijacked this bill and added provisions that are aimed at just one goal – creating chaos in the delivery of medical care.
Since the 1950s the singular goal of the Democrat Party in this country insofar as health care is concerned has been to establish some form of socialized medicine in the United States. Every single piece of legislation supported or proposed by Democrats for decades has moved us ever nearer to a full-fledged system of government managed health care.
Have Americans completely forgotten the ill-fated HillaryCare proposal of 1993? This proposal would have placed an additional 17 percent of our gross domestic product (our economy, for those of you with Camaros) under the direct control of the Imperial Federal Government. If you’ve forgotten that hideous piece of Democrat legislation, here’s a gentle reminder. Under HillaryCare if you decided to find a doctor to provide you with medical care outside of the government plan, and you took the money that you worked for and you earned and used that money to pay that doctor for his medical services, both you and your “private” doctor would have committed a crime and would be subject to criminal prosecution. Can you imagine that? Finding a licensed doctor to administer legal medical care, and paying that doctor for his services, would be a crime!!!
Oh, but it sounds so good, doesn’t it! Boortz says that this bill is going to create some degree of chaos. Boortz says that this bill will cause private employers to drop their insurance programs. Boortz says that health insurance costs, and premiums will increase! Don’t listen to the radio blowhard! He doesn’t know what he’s talking about!
To be sure, the Democrats assure us that there are “safe harbor” provisions in the act that will protect employers from medical malpractice lawsuits. Well, that’s just great, isn’t it! We’ll just take their word for it. They say that employers won’t get sued, that’s good enough for me!
But I seem to remember similar assurances from the leftists with another piece of legislation called the Americans with Disabilities Act. They told us that this bill wouldn’t lead to idiotic lawsuits too, didn’t they? They promised us that there were all sorts of protections built in the ADA for employers who made a good faith effort to comply with the law. And what do we end up with? Well, a school system in Florida can’t fire a superintendent with multiple shoplifting convictions because his thievery is the result of a disability. A trucking company can’t fire a driver with one eye. That’s discrimination. A strip club in California is cited because a stripper uses a portable shower stall in her act on stage – because the shower stall isn’t handicapped accessible.
Then there was the Clean Water Act. Hey! Who could argue with this? Wassamattau? You against clean water or something? Some right wing “reactionaries” said that the wetlands provisions in this bill would infringe on the rights of private landowners. “No way!” said the leftist enviro-radicals. We are assured that the bill is very plain – that the wetland provisions can only apply to waters “appurtenant to the navigable waterways of the United States.” So --- the Clean Water Act passes. What happens? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gets the nod for enforcing the wetlands provisions, the “Glancing Geese” doctrine is established, and homeowner are cited and fined for putting fill dirt in low-lying spots in their back yards --- many miles away from an “navigable waterway.”
Now these same alarmists right wing reactionaries who warned the country about the ADA and the Clean Water Act are sounding the alarm of the Patient’s Bill of Rights. Again, the left says “No way!” “That will never happen!” “The legislation forbids it!”
So, this time we’re going to believe them? This time we’re going to take them at their word? Isn’t that the definition of insanity? You know, doing the same thing time after time again and always expecting a different result? The left has placed that football on the kicking tee again --- and here comes right-wing Charlie Brown just ready to kick the dog squeeze out of it. If you’ve been reading the cartoon strip for any time at all you know just what is going to happen.
As Brit Hume said on Fox News Sunday yesterday …. “Why in the world would you put a provision in this bill allowing people to sue their employers? What is the thinking process behind that?”
Brit Hume knows what the thinking process is. Again – to create chaos. The Democrats absolutely want employers to drop their health insurance coverage. They want hundreds of thousands, even millions of additional Americans to become “uninsured!” And when they do become uninsured they want to make it as tough as they can for these people to go out there and buy their own health insurance policies. That’s why Democrats defeated an amendment to the Patient’s Bill of Rights making privately purchased health insurance policies tax deductible. Once these people are cut loose from their employer-provided health insurance, the leftists want them to flounder about with no real affordable options. Then – then they’ll demand a solution from --- guess who? --- GOVERNMENT!
It’s all so simple. Create the problem, then present yourself as the solution. It’s a game the left plays so well, and a game the right seems unable to defend against.
