With a rush on in the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and by President Barack Obama to impose a ruinously bureaucratic and costly system of socialized medicine upon Americans, it is interesting that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the Senate version of proposed legislation would cost "only" $849 billion!
Other, more realistic, estimates suggest the cost would be more than a trillion dollars, to serve many more people less well by no more doctors and hospitals, with many prescriptions. It's a formula for low quality and high costs.
But whether the prospective cost would be "more than a trillion dollars" or "only $849 billion" over several years, where would the money come from? It wouldn't be "free."
The government is not about to provide more medical care for more people without huge cost. The cost would not be passed on to "somebody else." It would cost us all.
And what major federal government program do you recall that did not cost much more than the preliminary estimates? It's interesting that more than half of our people seem to be wisely opposing any of the various ObamaCare plans.
Our government has spent or pledged trillions of dollars to bail out shareholders and financial institutions,foreign and domestic,from their bad business decisions. Many have called this socialism for the rich.
We now have an opportunity to extend health care coverage to the least fortunate for about 80 billion dollars per year. Can we only afford to help the rich in a financial crisis? Have we lost all sense of community well being? That's not the America I grew up in.
WHO pledged trillions of dollars to bail out shareholders and financial institutions from bad decisions? THE GOVERNMENT is the answer! I know of no one who supported bailouts by either the former(blame them)administration or the current(not their fault)one. That same irresponsible body is proposing extended health care with no real plan to pay for it except in ways we have previously been unable to pay for other things. I agree we have lost a sense of community well-being. Government will never enable us to do that. I wish that were not the case. So we pay. My contention is we really never lack funds to do what we need to do health care, education or otherwise. We simply misappropriate too much in order to remain empowered. Surely we do not deceive ourselves into thinking the new all-encompassing Obamacare will not be used as a continued empowerment program. It's a whole new world America, enjoy it!
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