Health Care Entitlements

This is a followup post to the "Show me the Numbers" post on the proposed "universal" heath care system.

I cannot stress how important it is that Americans understand what is being proposed. Particularly, since I heard a member of the administration on CNBC this morning talking about how they were going to make health care more affordable by injecting competition into the
market. I do not want to repeat the entire "Show me the Numbers" post (you should read that one for context). But, I will repeat that competition is the only way to lower costs. Well, someone from the administration must be monitoring my posts (along with the thousands of
other folks blogging this issue - I am sure!). This morning, the spokesperson from the administration stated that they were going to lower health care costs by offering government health care as a "competitive" option. Now that is what I call a spin! The administration wants you to believe that by "giving" health care away, they are going to force other health care providers and insurers to lower their prices. They are disguising this entitlement as market
competition. This is a win-win situation for the administration. First, they get to do what they want to do: provide health care entitlements to a certain segment of the population for free. Second, they want you to believe that this will constitute competition for the rest of the health care industry. They need for you to believe that this will make everyone's health care costs go down. If you do not believe them, there is no way this legislation will get through. It is absolutely imperative that Americans do their homework on this issue.

Stick to the principals:

• Prices are lowered by competition, not by government regulation or spending
• Health care must not become another entitlement; any health care program must be run like a non profit venture or trust

The pundits are right, the Democrats are no longer a "tax and spend" party. The Democrats have evolved into a "borrow and spend" party. And, before all the Republicans start to strut around - this whole situation is your fault for losing the trust of the American people in the first place! If the Republicans had stuck to their fiscal conservative values, instead of trading them for "at any cost" social conservative values, we would not be in this situation.

The Democrats have figured out how to keep those voters, who are only interested in getting what they can out of the government, happy. And, they are going to be rewarded by votes that will keep them in office. Brilliant. Think about it, voters of today get the benefit, while the
voters of tomorrow get stuck with the bill.