There are
traditional ways to explain and define issues, then there are interesting ways
to do so.
There
has been much said about the so named “Obama-Care”, proposed by the President
to, eventually and if it actually works, supply health care to all. Because of all the nuances involved, I do not
believe even those who put it into law truly could fully describe it, nor could
they begin to explain how it is that this mammoth undertaking will truly be paid.
Of
course, all the political pundits on both sides are busy either pushing it or
taking potshots at it. The only problem is that because of the very hugeness
of the proposed project, no one really can either explain it or attack it with
enough clarity for the average individual to grasp and/or understand the message.
Today
I received an email from a long time friend. It was a short –about 2 minutes long-
presentation by a lady who seems to be a doctor and she was speaking out
against the plan, so I will assume this was from the Romney camp. It was a
funny way to present a viewpoint; I don’t basically agree with the plan or with
many of the present administration’s ways to manage money and society. I thought this long winded sentence was indeed funny and yet, quite
complete in its explanation of a proposed plan which not many really know how
it may, or not, function and how it will be managed and paid. Unfortunately, I could not
get the name of the lady… I would have been nice to remember and to give credit
where credit is due.
So
it goes:
“We are gifted with a health
care program we are forced to buy and fined if we don’t and which will add 10
million patients without adding a single doctor but which will provide for
16,000 new IRS agents subject to a committee whose chairman admits he does not fully understand, passed by a Congress that has not really read the law –but who
exempts its members from it- and signed by a President who smokes, to be
administered by Treasure Department personnel who haven’t paid taxes and for
which we taxpayers will be taxed for the next four years, before a single
benefit goes into effect and that is to be managed by a government which has
already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by an obese
Surgeon General and financed by a country that is broke… Sooo… What the
(@@#$%%$) could possibly go wrong with this scenario?”
Granted…
perhaps a funny and somewhat simplistic view but… not too far astray from the
truth. From my humble viewpoint, after some 40 years in the personal insurance
field, I know that health insurance cannot be mandated unto the health care
providing companies (regardless if they are private or government managed)
without a well thought out financial backing and risk taking plan in place. It’s not that easy… and it’s not
very realistic to say otherwise.
We
are in the midst of a campaign that as usual, slings mud both ways. I think
that we as voters have to look beyond the nice speeches and pretty marketing
pictures that both camps present to the public, and understand individual
qualifications and shown respect and support for a way of life… OUR way of life.
This
country cannot really support a social gifting oriented government;
it was not built on that financial premise. It was built on the premise that we
all have an equal opportunity to try, to fail and to try again. As many times as it may be necessary to achieve a goal. And that those who
actually make it, are not to be punished for it, but lauded and looked at as
examples to follow. Not every one is born to be a leader; not everyone is bred
to be a risk taker. We need those and we need the ones who quietly toil day in
and day out. As a team, we make this economy go and grow in synergy. Don't think it is really that difficult to understand... Or, is it?
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