Health Care?
The President and Congress need to ask the right question: Not how, but should?
The real question isn’t “how” to provide equal health care to everyone, but “should” citizens authorize the federal
government to expand its power through a new amendment
to the U.S. Constitution that authorizes governance over health care.
Every citizen has the right to purchase their own health care; but socialized health care is not a federal
power enumerated in the U.S. Constitution. Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs were never authorized
through a constitutional amendment. But, Mr. Obama
is not seeking an amendment to legitimize his vision of
socialized, government-controlled medicine.
Emotionally based arguments for more money do not erase the fact that the federal government has not earned the trust of the already overburdened taxpayer.
Mr. Obama stated that two-thirds of the cost of his new health-care plan could be recouped from Medicare and Medicaid. A more prudent course of action would be to improve efficiency, costs, and coverage in Medicare and
Medicaid, while simultaneously seeking an amendment to the Constitution authorizing federal government intrusion.
Mr. Obama stated that his plan would be revenue neutral – not adding a cent to the deficit, which is not fiscally possible. The government cannot increase spending for the health care of 30 million people without increasing cost. This is an intellectually dishonest promise of hope over reality. Anyone with an ounce of common sense can spot a snake oil sales pitch; unfortunately, few of our elected officials possess one ounce.
On September 9th 2009, during a televised speech, Mr. Obama stated, “The plan will not add to our deficit. The middle-class will realize greater security, not higher taxes. And if we are able to slow the growth of health care costs by just one-tenth of one percent each year, it will actually reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over the long term.”
Let’s do the math: (two trillion X 0.10% = two billion)
If we save one-tenth of one percent each year, it would take 2,000 years to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion. Do they teach math at Occidental College, Columbia University, or Harvard Law School? Tea Partiers want to know!