On the Drudge Report I link titled "Flashback..." this morning I read what I thought was a very telling parallel drawn between the actions of South Carolina Rep. (R) Joe Wilson's outburst and the heckling of Bush and Clinton speeches.
Does Joe Wilson really just stand alone on this? If you were watching the president address the joint session of congress didn't you also see some of the president's remarks as combative? Is this a sign that the line of decency has been crossed? That the time for bipartisan chivalry has come to an end? Is Joe Wilson really just trying to get the president to understand that his constituents as well as a super majority of the entire rest of the nation will no longer tolerate being lied to?
Didn't
Barack Huesein Obama apply for the job of President of the United States of America? In doing so didn't he tell us all the he saw as being wrong and what effect his "change" was going to have on the current system? Isn't that why politicians tell us how their plan, their idea and their vision is going to function before we vote?
So ask yourself this; Has Obama done anything of what he promised since he has taken office? Does he just need some more time and money to make happen; what's up??? No, President Obama is pitching stones in the shadows trying to misdirect our attention while his true vision moves us closer to his real agenda.
The Democrat party for the first time in history or as I can recall it tagged President George W. Bush as simply "Mr. Bush". This was a deliberate an insult as when Ted Kennedy deliberately called Barack Obama, "Osama Obama". The idea that this president can himself skip-out on protocol and then give the nation a lecture on health care reform is outrageous. The president himself to this date has never presented a plan that could be vote on and signed into law.
Sarah Palin called him out on "death panels" very effectively I might add. But the truth is their is such a panel; it's not a court, or an independent review board. Nothing as imperfect as a human being; that would have to come with an appeals process and we've seen what that does to the cost. No the "death panel" is an obscure group with visible head and it's job is to write 'the book' on what is and what is not the proper and legal uses of all health care resources. Doctors will be forced to perform consistent with this new law which will "pull the plug on grandma".
By now it should be obvious that their is not going to be any serious debate this year on illegal immigration. As the much anticipated mid-term elections approach in 2010 any Democrat legislation on the topic would ring like a suicidal pact. When President Obama speaks about illegal aliens not being included in health care reform he is simply as Joe Wilson stated "lying". We can't solve a problem we refuse to acknowledge exists.
Today illegal immigrants are one of the main causes of sky rocketing health care cost because they don't pay into the system. What is outrageous is the fact that for all the so called "cheap labor" benefits illegals are claimed to provide American business with. The consequences are absolutely ignored. We've all heard the stats or read them on some email but check out the
DEA's most wanted list;
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/fugitives/stlouis/stl-list.htm these aren't junk scientific stats this is reality.
Based on the presidents talk about pre-existing conditions the basic cost of health care is going threw the roof. He says he wants to cap out of pocket expenses without raising the cost. His plan call for free healthcare for the indigent; some of whom make bad life choices while at the same time making it law that bad choices be a factor in the level of care.
Our court system has allowed the cost of process overtake the necessity for justice in society. It's not just about ridiculous settlements for medical malpractice claims. It's about the more common occurrence that claims get settled out of court because the cost outweighs the risk for the insurance company. The problem is that in most of these cases there is no risk the parties who sue the insurance company; because most injury law is paid on a contingency fee agreement.
When a doctor pays $300,000 per year to insure his practice an attorney can get giant settlement checks. When hospital has to write off the millions for treatment non-payment while medi-care dictates payment schedules to doctors. So your rates went from $100 per month to $500 per month in 10 years because your insurance companies do pay the hospitals and your confused?
What are we going to have next Media-Care for public fairness???