I find it amazing how we have allowed our non-representing representatives and the media to frame the debate on health care. All of them act as though health care is either a given or at least should be a given. They behave as though health care has always been understood to be a right. They behave as though it would not be possible to get health care without insurance and so they all continually bring the numbers of people who don't have health care.
They never reflect on the fact that there was no such thing has health care insurance a little over 40 years so. This is a recent thing. It started out as a niche market and grew. Because the insurance people paid exorbitant amounts of money for procedures and eventually for basic visits the price naturally went up.
Guilt is also used extensively. The assumption is always that everyone ought to have health care and so the pressure is put on politicians and the American public why constantly asking the question: What about those 10-12-30-40- 50 million people who aren't insured. Yes, the numbers change every time you hear them. They don't even know how many people aren't insured. Further I don't believe they care what the number is except insofar as it makes it sound like more of a crisis if the numbers are really high.
The pressure is thus put on us to feel guilty that others don't have health care again as though health care was a given. It is interesting as well that they always use the term health care when it is actually insurance they are talking about. Of course if you say "insurance" people might wonder if you really have a right to it or even a right to our compassion for those who don't have it.
Occasionally someone in the media will correct someone and say it's not health care but insurance, but this doesn't happen often.
Because they frame the debate from the start as though insurance is a foregone conclusion from there the discussion immediately jumps to how it's going to be provided not whether it should be. Obviously if you question whether it should be provided the politically correct insensitivity police come and attack you for not being compassionate.
Insurance of any kind is not a constitutional right. Retirement is not a constitutional right. Education is not a constitutional right. None of these things is the job of the government.
The next subtle deception and distraction is for our leaders to say "SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE!" or "We were elected to do something." as though doing something, anything, is better than doing nothing and there for no matter what option is offered they should vote on it.
They frame the republicans as the party of "NO", but again this is nothing more than a distraction. After all haven't the democrats said no to every amendment or proposal put forward by the republicans. Even more than this they've said NO to the republicans even taking part in the discussion.
Now they're talking about a summit, but the democrats are already preparing to put forward their bill though the use of reconciliation. They don't care what the republicans want. They simply want to get their agenda through and in the process take over more than 15% of the economy, on top of what they're taking with social security, medicaid, medicare, education, and all the other entitlements.
The fact that we can't afford it and that it amounts to far more spending doesn't matter and isn't discussed.
I'm convinced that health care provided by the government to one extent or another will pass and would even get republican support because of the way the debate has already been framed and no one has the guts to stand up and say no this isn't constitutional.
What happened to the constitution in all this. Our non-representing representatives are making the constitution irrelevant by the very way they posture.
We need to send the message to Washington to stop the madness, stop the spending, stop the taxing and start cutting back in a serious way.
We don't the IRS if we go to a flat tax. We don't need to be taxed at the outrageous percentages we are.
Many forget that the reason people left Europe for America originally was because of the outrageous taxes imposed on them in Europe... What were those outrageous taxes? Well income tax as about 1.5%, they were also taxed about 40% on fruits and necessities such as tea.
Let's get a clue. We are Taxed Enough Already!
No more insanity!
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