Socialized Health Care – The Left’s Wet Dream

Socialized health care has been the Left’s wet dream for 40 years. Nearly all of the problems Americans face as regards health care (including those enumerated in President Obama’s speech on Sept. 9, 2009) have their genesis in government interference or the machinations of the Left. There is nothing in the current or modified legislation that addresses these; it only further coalesces the power of the government.
For the use of the reader, I have included the viable market solutions to reforming health care outlined by Whole Foods Markets’ CEO John Mackey in August of 2009, so that we know what to ask for:
1. Remove the legal obstacles which slow the creation of high deductible health insurance plans and Health Savings Accounts.
2. Change the tax laws so that that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have exactly the same tax benefits.
3. Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines.
4. Repeal all government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover.
5. Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors into paying insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
6. Make health care costs transparent so that consumers will understand what health care treatments cost.
7. Enact Medicare reform.
8. Permit individuals to make voluntary tax deductible donations on their IRS tax forms to help the millions of people who have no insurance.
Bear in mind that the government (particularly those on the Left) have no interest in enacting such reforms. It would be akin to asking a pimp to send his girls to college. The imperative in actualizing the necessary reforms in health care is the same as for most of the significant problems this nation faces: Vote the bums out!

Death of a Dangerous Pig

When I was younger, I worked at one of the nation’s leading cancer research hospitals. I watched my mother die of cancer in that very hospital. I deeply empathize with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy’s suffering and that of his family. No one should have to die in such a manner.

That said. I believe it is hypocrisy to lionize someone simply because they have suffered and died – particularly when that person deserves no lionization at all.

Ted Kennedy was a dangerous pig. An elitist who perceived average Americans as utensils for the machinations of avaricious scoundrels like his father Joe, who was a bootlegger and Nazi sympathizer, Teddy hid his money offshore while appropriating as much of ours as he could. Throughout his political career, he crafted legislation to accomplish the worst of the worst in terms of subjugating Americans’ liberties, weakening our foreign policy, stultifying our economy and compromising our borders.

He was a murderer; he left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in his car in 1969 whilst saving his own fat, drunken ass. He was a coward: He failed to report the accident for more than a day so as to sober up and get his story straight. He was a loud, boorish drunk, an adulterer and a womanizer.

Finally, to the end of his struggle with cancer, he connived to circumvent legal statutes he had instituted in order to keep his Senate seat within his own corrupt party.

In the practical sense, all I can say is: It’s a good day for America. Good riddance to some extremely bad rubbish.

How do they DO it?

What I'd like to know is how libs are so inerrantly right about everything. They know everything about government, they know everything about parenting (even if they've never had kids), they know everything about economics, finance - I mean, they know everything about everything, from interior decorating to geopolitics.

I mean, they went to the same schools as the rest of us. They spent just as much time there. They haven't lived any longer than anyone else, in the aggregate. Most of them have never been anywhere (except for bastions of lib dogma outside of their own lib enclaves), or done anything except for go to school and set aside for their own future.

How do they do it?

Oh... You mean it's just arrogance? You mean they don't know everything they say they do?