Public Citizen.org,
self-described as “advocates for a healthier and more equitable world,” sent a
fundraising letter to Democrat voters, claiming that “millionaires who run the
largest corporations on Earth want to slash the social insurance programs the
rest of us rely on.” By slashing, they are referring to the logical proposal to
increase eligibility age for Medicare, to correlate Medicare to income, and to
modernize/privatize it.
Who are these “mega-corporations”
that apparently want to destroy our healthcare? Public Citizen points out that
CEOs of AT&T, Boeing, Dow Chemical, Exxon, Mobil, General Electric,
JPMorgan, and Wal-Mart have no idea “what it’s like to worry if you can retire
with dignity and security.”
So far, class division and
envy rhetoric, blaming the “evil” rich for the world’s problems and social
injustice, has worked for progressives because they appeal to the lowest
information voters, people who watch “reality” television and take their news
information from comedians on the alphabet soup channels, the media machine of
the Democrat Party.
It is not the CEOs who
have destroyed the middle class and the opportunity to succeed in America, it
is the race baiters, politicians, and the community organizers who keep the low
information voters misinformed and beholden to their supposed saviors, the very
people who control them and benefit from their misfortunes.
Public Citizen, a
progressive organization for the “defense of democracy from corporate greed”
and for social justice, with specialists in Community Organizing, lobbyists, environmentalism,
and attorneys is “fighting not only to preserve Medicare, but to improve and
expand it into the universal, single-payer health insurance system our nation
needs to make the ideal of health care as a human right the reality for every
American.”
Somebody needs to tell low
information Democrats that medical care is not a human right, it is a service,
provided by medical professionals who expect to be paid for their service, expertise,
and the many years they’ve spent in medical school studying diligently for
exams, writing papers, dissecting, doing 36-hour rotations at hospitals for
free, paying high tuition fees, and buying high-priced specialty books. These
medical professionals have loans to repay, families to feed, bills to pay,
office overhead costs, malpractice insurance (due to the extremely litigious
society that we live in), and employees who must be paid for their work as
well.
Somebody should also tell uninformed
Democrats that Medicare was not designed as a universal, single-payer health
insurance system and that it is President Obama who is stripping Medicare of
$719 billion over the next ten years in order to fund his unaffordable Affordable
Care Act. Additionally, Americans have not asked for a single-payer, national
socialized health care system but they got it, it is the law; even if ACA is
defunded completely, all Americans must still pay the tax next year if they do
not have proof of insurance.
Public Citizen claims that
“an immoral (and ineffective) for-profit health insurance regime” dominates in
our country. The medical system has its problems and is in need of tort reform
and insurance portability across state lines, but it is the best health care
system in the world, everyone who needs serious medical care comes to the
United States for surgery. It is not an immoral system, anybody who comes to an
emergency room is treated, and nobody is refused care.
On the contrary, millions
of illegal immigrants take advantage of our generous health care system and
overuse emergency rooms as their private doctors and as their OBGYNs, forcing
taxpayers to foot the bills for the delivery of anchor babies and the care of
their mothers while Americans buy insurance for their families. Americans, who
cannot afford premiums because they fall below the poverty line, receive
medical treatment through Medicaid.
“The private, for-profit
health insurance establishment” has been able to offer free medical care to all
people who could not afford to pay but needed care. Nobody died unnecessarily
because they were turned away as the Public Citizen fundraising letter implies.
Unfortunately, with the
new Obamacare, rationing will become the norm and people will be turned down
for treatment based on their age and utility to society, they will become “units.”
There is a 15-member death panel written into Obamacare. We will find out soon
enough when the unfortunately-named Affordable Care Act starts enrolling people
on October 1, 2013.
Public Citizen is
mobilizing the “public and allies in Congress to block any cuts to Medicare.”
Pushing a “national
single-payer system,” they are joined by “Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. John
Conyers, the congressional champions of single-payer legislation.”
The letter concludes, “We
are supporting state efforts to adopt a single-payer system in the framework of
the Affordable Care Act.” The truth is that many states are pushing back and do
not wish to have a single-payer system because it is unworkable and they lack
the funds to do so.
Unions want Obamacare
repealed or defunded because their members wish to keep their current Cadillac
health insurance plans and their doctors, as promised by the President. Congress,
who wrote the bill, does not want Obamacare for themselves and their staffers.
They have strategized and manipulated behind closed doors until the President
gave them a special status and a 75% subsidy towards the annual premium.
Giving potential donors
misguided statistics on the status of our healthcare, Public Citizen’s
President ends his message of gloom and doom with the chilling “onward.” “Onward”
is an interesting variant to “forward,” euphemisms recognizable to me as
socialist slogans.
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