Shots Across the Bow

In a market based system, you can buy as much healthcare as you can afford. In a government run model, you get what they give you.

Period.

Put another way, in a market system, your access to healthcare is dependent solely on your ability to earn money and the relative priority you set on it. In a government system, your healthcare is dependent solely on who you know in the bureau and your status in the Party. Ask any former resident of the Soviet Union. Better still, ask a Democrat congresscritter why he thinks Congress should be exempted from the plan.

If you support the Health care plan as proposed in the House, even knowing that Congress has made sure that they are exempt from it's requirements and restrictions, even knowing that the President himself has said that he would go outside the plan for care for his family, then you are stupid.

Yes, I mean stupid. Not ignorant, misinformed, or mistaken.

Stupid.

In effect, you are saying that you will allow your representative to bind you to a healthcare system that is inferior to the one he enjoys simply because of his status as an elected representative. You are saying that you are willing to cede control of a large portion of your life to an unelected Washington bureaucrat who faces no accountability for his decisions and is not subject to the same requirements and restrictions he can enforce on you.

There's no other word that fits but stupid.

Yeah, I know, this isn't the way to convince anyone, but let's be honest. If you know that Congress voted down an amendment to place them and their families under this plan, and you still support the plan, then there's really nothing that would convince you to change your mind, right? So why should I bother? You've renounced your status as a citizen and accepted status as a ward of the state, surrendering your autonomy for second tier care, and you're happy with it.

And don't bother trying to tell me how wonderful the care is in Europe and Canada and Cuba; if it was going to be so good, the President and Congress would not exempt themselves from it.

I'm sure government run health care will operate every bit as effectively and efficiently as the various stimulus packages: TARP 1, TARP 2, the auto company bailouts, Cash for Clunkers, etc. To be honest, that is setting the bar fairly low, isn't it?

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