Where Our Priorities Are

Concerning the "Health Care" bill, I expected no less from those in power. Sometimes I really hate being a pessimist who is proved right.

I look around at this country that held so much promise for so many people and weep in frustration that, in less that one quarter of the time it has been in existence, it is going the way of other once great powers that had the ability to last much longer than we have.

Nate Silver had a good point: the public option was never going to happen, and the bill that's on the table is actual, honest-to-God reform. Seriously, if the whiners would just actually read the goddamn bill, they'd realize Obama got everything BUT the public option.

Oh good, that makes me feel MUCH better.

Here's a pessimistic prediction for you. Ten years down the line, health care will be more broken than ever: prices will be higher, drugs will be more expensive, hospitals will be more crowded and less efficient, and the insurance people will be excoriated as even more evil and greedy bastards than they supposedly are now. In response, Washington will say that they tried to give private enterprise a chance, honest they did, but now they see that private enterprise simply can't handle the production and delivery of such a vital national product as health care and we must go to public-option or single-payer in the name of the little people who never had a chance.

That prediction of course, assumes that the anticipated economic meltdown from printing and spending so much money over these last two years won't have occurred by then, which I think is actually very optimistic when you take a look at this nation's finances. As for Europe's and Japan's finances, let's not even go there.

Government is not your friend. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Stop trying to find one, for your own sake, before you end up like these guys.

http://health-insurance-carriers.com/blog/japanese-health-care/

I'm not looking for a free lunch. I actually buy my own health insurance, because I live in Massachusetts.

And let me tell you, while I dislike the way the bill is written with regards to the younger middle class (i.e. yours truly), I can tell you this: life for the poor, you know, the people who get shafted, the people who can have one medical problem ruin their life, here has gotten a lot better and medical care for everyone else hasn't been negatively affected.

So save your NHS state-care-is-the-devil boogety-boogety bullshit for RedState. I'm not buying, because unlike you, I pay attention.

Oh, while I'm at it: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/12/why-progressives-are-batshit-crazy-to.html

Humph, not surprised. America was founded on genocide and treachery, and lately run by robber-barons and war-profiteers.

Go far enough back into any nation's history and you will find that the core group founded their society on genocide and treachery.

Genocide often took the form of 'absorbing' the indigenous peoples into the overlords society and treachery was often accomplished by taking the young of the former ruling class and bringing them up with their overlords ideals.

Oh I know.. I'm descended from Vikings, and my family got the sharp end of it when the Normans came over.