VA Senator Mark Warner had a couple of articles published over the weekend, one on economic/monetary policy, and one on health care.? Unfortunately I was not surprised by his view on either issue.? What he proposes in his articles is, of course, more government.?
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The Answer….More Government?
Monday, June 29th, 2009Government run… anything (or everything?)
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009I am in the IT industry and ran across this article concerning Obama’s plans for Healthcare IT. While I don’t have a problem with the goals that Mr. Obama is setting, I do have a problem that government thinks that it needs to get involved in the process. As we all know from past experience, government run anything is always less efficient than a privately run version. What we’re going to end up with is a one-size fits all implementation of health “care”, similar to what we now have in our government run schools. It is simply too expensive for a large beauracracy like the federal government to do anything except meet the lowest common denominator, they cannot possibly have rules for all contingencies, and cannot allow lee-way in making exceptions as that will lead to corruption of the system (not that corruption won’t happen anyway). I’m not writing this to bust on one party or the other, as George W had this as a goal for us as well, Obama is just being more aggresive with the timeline. What I would like to see is someone that would take us back to the expressly allowed powers granted to the Federal government, not someone that wants to expand the government to run everything.
Happy Election Year
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008Wow, Neal goes on a great big rant today about people who should not be allowed to vote. For the most part I agree with him. I am of the opinion that there needs to be some criteria you need to pass (other than having survivied to be 18) in order to be allowed to vote. My dad came up with one, that you get one vote for every $10,000 you pay in taxes per year. Not sure I completely agree with that one, but it couldn’t be worse than what we have now. Maybe have that be a cutoff, you don’t get to vote unless you pay $10,000 in taxes per year, but you only get one vote. We have to have some way of keeping people from voting themselves the ability to steal other peoples stuff.
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If you squandered every opportunity for an education to end up an unemployable semi-literate loser, that’s your problem, not mine. If you’ve destroyed your health with cigarettes and fast food … then by what right do you demand that people who lived their lives more responsibly than you cover the cost of your medical care. You cry about your “right” to health care. You dare to claim a right to the services of another human being to correct problems you created for yourself? Further, if it is more important for you to spend your money on a cell phone, flat-screen televisions, the best new car, meals at expensive restaurants and fancy vacations than it is to spend your money on a health insurance policy .. then you should be on your own. Don’t beg the government to steal from someone else so that you don’t have to change your lifestyle.
And a word for you welfare brood mares out there. That’s right .. welfare brood mares .. it’s time for someone to call you out for what you are. Perhaps one of the greatest social wrongs a person can commit in this country is to have a child that you cannot afford to care for. Do you really think that it’s perfectly OK for you to get yourself knocked up, download your baby, and then tell the taxpayers “Hey, look what I did! Now you folks cough up the money I need to take care of this child.” Yeah .. that’s what America is all about .. and you’re going to be right there in November to vote for Hillary, aren’t you. In fact all of you are: the uneducated and unmotivated, the “I’m not responsible for my own health care” crowd, and the single moms. All of you want someone else to step in and take care of you after you’ve screwed up your own lives, and who better than Hillary, a woman more than ready to use the police power of government to reward you for your votes.
You do know, don’t you, that you have absolutely no constitutional right to cast a vote in this presidential election. No .. you probably don’t know that. That would mean you are educated, but you’re not. You were educated by the government … and the government sure isn’t going to disclose that inconvenient little fact to you. Somehow the media in this country has bought the politician’s about this “right to vote.” It’s not there. Doesn’t exist. And to save this country we need to figure out a way to get tens of millions the parasite class off the voter roles. Welfare? No vote. Illiterate? Stay home on election day. Begging for the government to be your lifetime nanny? Let the doers, the achievers cast the votes. Just stay away.
Historians have said that this country will start to slide when the people learn that they can vote largess for themselves out of the public treasury. Well, you’ve learned, and now you’re heading to the polls later this year to vote for government as an instrument of plunder .. plunder for you .. plunder to pay you for your votes. It’s all about you, your wants and needs. Look for the politician who promises to transfer the most wealth from the achievers to you … and that’s the politician who gets your vote. You don’t care even a little bit about the type of America you’ll leave generations to come … it’s all about you, right now, right here.
Don’t you have some soap operas you need to catch up to on election day?
House votes to expand health insurance program for children
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007House votes to expand health insurance program for children
”How does anyone of us decide, ‘You will have health care and you will not,’ in a country as great as ours when you are talking about children,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, said Tuesday night in a speech on the House floor.
I’ll tell you how – YOU DON’T. If someone ones to buy health care then that is their decision, not the government’s to make for them. “But the children!” they scream! What did the children do before there was health insurance? Why, the same thing we should all be doing today, paying your own bills. What we’re buying today isn’t health insurance, but a health care payment plan. A lot of people out there want to pay $x per month to get all the health care they want. And that’s fine, if you want to do that then go buy that plan, but government has not place fixing prices for those plans. The private market should be handling that. That way, if you only want catastrophic (actual health insurance), then you would be able to buy that plan as well, but government has to get it’s fingers in and screw with things. Why? Power, pure and simple. If they control your access to health care, through forcing you to purchase one of their approved plans, and they control what doctors you can see, and what specialists you get referrals to, and then they make it illegal to pay privately, why they then control you.
Feds Reject NYs Bid to Insure More Kids
Friday, September 7th, 2007Feds Reject NYs Bid to Insure More Kids
The Bush administration demonstrated Friday it will strictly adhere to new guidelines that limit the scope of a popular childrens health insurance program. It rejected an application from New York to let more middle-income families participate.
The administration issued its guidelines just three weeks ago. Democrats and governors from both parties have said the rules are misguided and will result in more uninsured children.The guidelines require that a state assure the federal government that it has already enrolled at least 95 percent of poor children in public health programs when expanding eligibility to higher-income children. Poor children in this instance are families with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty level – $34,340 for a family of three.
Wow, the Feds got something right for a change. How often do you hear about the fed denying any program claiming to be “for the children”? Not very often I tell you. Now, if they would only roll the entire SCHIP program back…
