Rut-Roh!

Alternative title: Doh!

President Buckethead, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have spent the better part of the last six months demonizing and punishing the health insurance industry in the tin echo chamber court of opinion that is our mainstream media.

Insurance companies have been termed as "evil" and "greedy" and "villainous" and laughingly, "immoral." Who is evil again? I'll readily admit that I am no fan of insurance companies, but the fact is, we have a capitalist society which functions on the necessary "greed" of profit-making. Add to that profit-driven economy reams of governmental regulations to all phases of healthcare and prices, in due course, will rise as each part of the economic chain adds the necessary cost to the "product" in order to maintain profitability.

You don't have to be Milton Freidmen to figure that much out.



So why would our government want to fundamentally undermine an industry by creating volumes of new fees, taxation, and the creation of a subsidized governmental insurance system in which profits are highly unlikely nor particularly necessary? This does little to foment competition between existing insurance carriers and runs counter to all capitalistic economic theory. Wouldn't an easier and more economically sound recommendation for overhaul be to remove the state mandates that prohibit a person living in one state from buying a better or more affordable policy in another? Seems logical to me. Open competition unimpeded by the federal or state governments. Let's give that a shot first before we sink the whole kit and caboodle through higher taxation and fees that choke off innovation, discovery and competition.

Here is a fine example of social medicine at work in Britain and this interesting table may open a few eyes about those claim denials that the left enjoys harping about. Who is tops on that list again? EVIL!

Governments, fed and state, have proven over and over, that they cannot create, monitor and maintain an economically sound entity and the examples are far and wide: AMTRAK, Medicare, Social Security, United States Postal Service, the state of California. Yeah, let's just dump another 16% of our GDP in the lap of Congress and the Obama administration. Uh, negative Ghost Rider.

Well, the answer to all of the above is two-fold: votes and power for the Democratic party. They think that by shrugging off the majority of Americans who realize the great foible of this healthcare "reform" will win over the much needed and coveted votes from minority groups. Further tightening the knot of co-dependency from which the two groups thrive.

Sadly, the losers of this whole debacle will be the common working man and woman. The heart of this country, the ones who wake at dawn and work late into the night to support and care for their families. The ones that pay taxes, the ones whose creative and free minds spawn the efficiencies and innovations that have kept America on the leading edge of economic power.

Forget all that. Liberals have been working for this equalized utopian society for decades and they are closer than ever to achieving just that. Free thought and will are slowly being legislated into oblivion as the competent masses will be expected to continue sweating and toiling away to support the scurvied, angry, degenerating and culturally morose multitudes who produce nothing except more socially-challenged and governmentally-dependent people.

It's no longer power to the people; it's power to the people in power.

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