All Your Base Are Belong To Us — The Kip Lange Homepage

Alright. What are we most concerned about? First, access. Big Gov Obamacare will no doubt increase access — to some sort of plan. By this I mean basic access to a basic health insurance plan that’s better than nothing. Although how many people need more access? The figure bandied about is 47 million, but of those, some are young people who choose not to have health care and some are people who could be on Medicare or Medicaid but just don’t realize it and fill out the paperwork. So you have to agree that “47 million uninsured” is a misnomer.

So Obamacare will increase access, I’ll give you that. But after that? I’ll tell you, I’m on a Medicaid program myself, and the number of participating doctors is small. I also have one doctor who has said he would continue to see me if I fell off insurance completely. I know of another doctor who used to accept my plan, but no longer does, and says he wishes he does, but the government simply won’t let him. That’s Medicaid. That’s government care. I said access to a plan, not a doctor. You think this will cure emergency room jam-ups? Are you kidding me? You’re going to have to wait longer under the “public option”.

I’ve also had Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and I know how easy those systems work compared to government-provided health care. But that is exactly because they’re private sector.

In the workplace, are more employers simply going to save on health care costs by insisting workers take Obamacare? I think so. Does overall care decline because of that? Absolutely. I don’t trust the government to run a damned C/T machine.

Tort reform, which is actually worthwhile, is off the table, as Howard Dean admitted, because of the trial lawyers. Tort reform would reduce restrictions on doctors treating you and lead to a decrease of batteries of unnecessary tests that are routinely administered to anyone complaining of a slight headache. Tort reform would clear up the jam in hospital rooms.

Here’s the first thing I want to know about.

Obama, as well as most people (including me), agree that Medicare and Medicaid are broke, and we have uninsured people (smaller than the amount you hear, though, because so many can get it yet choose not to) we need to insure.

Right. Medicare, Medicaid, broke. System needs reform. Obama’s solution?

Create another huge bureaucracy, the same as Medicare or Medicaid, to the tune of a few trillion dollars expected.

This is what I don’t understand, Mr. President. Two government bureaucracies that were both created to govern healthcare are broke, and need fixing, so to fix them, we’ll create another layer? We can’t just try to fix Medicare and Medicaid, maybe, first?

It’s a fundamental contradiction — a glaring one, I’d say — in Obama’s argument for health care reform.

As for these townhalls, I’m sorry people like Maureen Dowd don’t see the “radiant young diverse idealists”, or whatever the hell she recently said (she sees old bitter white men, basically). What, we should come to you with a caucus of wise Latina women? Are you kidding me? Yeah, there is some organization in some of the groups coming from a higher level, but the Left in America organizes the crap out of everything! It’s how Obama got elected, don’t give me that! And we don’t have the right to peacefully petition and lobby? Notice it says, “peacefully”, not “amicably”. Well, so far as I know, no one’s been shot at any of these damn townhall meetings, so sod off with that bit, too, eh? We’re allowed to be loud.

Two words: Code Pink. Now between them and the townhall folk, you tell me which one better represents America.

And it is also important, as some have pointed out, to recognize that a lot of this is fear of the unkown, because we don’t — and really, can’t, in a way — know exactly what’s in this behemoth of a bill they want to pass. Why do you think they wanted it rushed through, anyway? Why do you think Obama wanted it in August? So no one would have a chance to talk about it, and elected officials wouldn’t have to get earfuls from angry constituents about how they’ll vote their asses out if they go along with this bill.

So, basically, my humble suggestion is that we plug all the holes in Medicare and Medicaid, rather than embark on a whole new government, well, takeover of public health care — and subsequently, public rights – in a free market.

And, yeah, my townhall two cents — most of you guys can go shove it. You don’t speak for me. You will only speak for me by directly opposing this legislation, by fighting to stop it. By doing something proactive to stop it, stop it right now, to stop socialized health care, stop it here and let it go no further.

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