Most Americans are satisfied with their health care, as an August Rasmussen poll showed that 80 percent of Americans rate their health care insurance as “good” or “excellent.”
And, as Obama tries to ram through his health care takeover — in less time than his family took to pick its dog — voters disapprove by a 52-39 percent margin of his handling of health care (Quinnipiac poll).
It’s not just his actions, but his word — which has proven absolutely worthless on health care. Time after time, Obama has butchered the truth, and it’s become obvious to millions of voters.
“I have been as clear as I can be,” Obama said recently. “Under the reform I’ve proposed, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor — if you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan.”
Obama ought to read page 16 of the 1,018-page House of Representatives bill he supports, that makes it impossible to buy individual medical insurance without going through the government.
The nonpartisan firm the Lewin Group has estimated that as many as 118.5 million people, roughly two-thirds of those with medical insurance today, could be dumped from private to public coverage. That’s a whole lot of people losing their medical coverage and doctors.
To justify assuming control of another one-sixth of the economy, Obama has argued that health care is a crisis and the nation has to adopt his government takeover to save money. That’s balderdash.
After creating the worst budget deficit — $1.8 trillion — in American history, Obama urges a massive new federal expenditure for health care that will cost at least $1.6 trillion over the next decade.
The director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has said the plan would worsen an already bleak budget outlook, increase deficit projections and drive the nation more deeply into debt. Even The Washington Post has accused Obama of hiding the cost of his nationalized health care.
During a New Hampshire health care town hall on Aug. 11, Obama told the audience he had never said he was a supporter of a single-payer universal health care plan, or government health care.
He should have checked his facts. On May 29, 2007, at the University of Iowa, he said: “The very first promise I made on this campaign was that as president I will sign a universal health care plan into law by the end of my first term in office.”
In 2003, he told the Illinois AFL-CIO, “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.”
Obama has long wanted a government takeover.
Instead of seriously addressing the concerns of voters, such as the Democrats’ plan to give health care to illegal aliens, their provision to skim $500 billion from Medicare and rationing, the Democrats have instead resorted to attacking citizens who disagree with them. They’ve called them thugs, extremists, mobs, un-American, Nazis and worse.
While Americans like their health care, more than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and British adults say their health system needs either “fundamental change” or “complete rebuilding.”
By a vast majority, Americans like the health insurance they have and boast a system that is the envy of the world.
Why should we trade our health care for a third-rate government system that most of the people in those nations want to dismantle?
It makes no sense, except to socialists.
• A Tracy native, Steve Wampler has a master’s degree in political science from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.
I don't think you support socialism. I think the country should NOT be spending money we don't have.
I feel that we should be focused on the issue of the economy, jobs.... First.
Second healthcare.
What's this socialist tag you seem to think I support? If being a republican is being a socialist, we are all in trouble. Maybe we should bring back the BIG WIG PARTY.
I know somewhere here someone listed them before. Some good some bad??? Some good til recently but are affected by the economy?? Anyone?
Pass the Vodka please.
-Signed: Drunk Aeroflot Pilot
We need to start some dialog with the voters,and give them a chance to decide what plan is best for everyone. To date there does not seem to be a plan in place that works for everyone. There seems to be too many pages of nothing in the bill, to date.
Maybe Steve Wampler coming from a liberal college as the University of Kent in Canterbury England, can give us some insight into socialized Medicine and how it works.
Checks and balances. Keeps Democrats from being too liberal. Yep, I guess it works both ways.
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/news/article/5930
America’s Democrats, President Barack Obama, Sen. Harry Reid, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and our own liberal congressman, Rep. Jerry McNerney, are in a headlong rush to pull off a government takeover of our nation’s health care system.
While Obama took six months to select a dog for his family, he wants to nationalize the health care industry within 90 days, adding a $1.6 trillion bill over the next decade to a $1.8 trillion deficit for the current fiscal year.
These Democrats might want to do their homework. Astoundingly, more than 70 percent of German, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and British adults (who have socialized medicine) say their health systems need either “fundamental change” or “complete rebuilding.”
At the same time, an August poll by the Rasmussen organization showed that 80 percent of Americans rate their health care insurance as good or excellent.
So even though we prefer our health insurance and the folks with socialized medicine don’t like their systems, our liberal politicians want to stick nationalized health care down our throats. I have a better idea; let’s get rid of our politicians quickly before they can destroy the world’s best health care system.