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Every wannabe recipient of Hillarycare or Socialized Medicine or Republican FedMed Lite or Universal Health Slavery or whatever plan du jour the powercrats are peddling with the promise that everyone can have free medical care at the expense of everyone else needs to study the text below. New Orleans has been trashed by a trio of disasters since 2005. The first, of course, was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes in U.S. history, which bitch-slapped the Big Easy upside the head and made every mama-to-be forget about ever naming a girlchild Katrina. The second calamity was man-made: The levees broke. The federally built levees in the system burst asunder in more than 50 places. Expert testimony before Senate committeecrats included this: "Most of the flooding of New Orleans was due to man's follies." The Army Corps of Engineers eventually fessed up that their levee-building stunk. The third disaster was also man-made: The bureaubrains from FEMA responded. They responded late, and slowly, and stupidly, and threw billions of taxbucks about while doing it. One way FEMAcrats threw taxbucks about was paying out millions in emergency aid to hucksters and grifters who weren't entitled to the handouts. FEMA also paid $2.7 billion for 145,000 crappy trailers that were deployed weeks and months and even years later to house Katrina survivors. But Katrina survivors may not survive the FEMA trailers. People bake in the summer and freeze in the winter, all the while sucking in unhealthy levels of formaldehyde gas given off by wood and glue in the trailers. Thousands of the infamous "FEMA trailers" could not be used in flood zones. Thousands are simply rusting away, unused. Thousands more are being auctioned off at pennies on the (tax) dollar. As if officialdom's bureaucratic bungling isn't bad enough, the whole enterprise has been fraught with fraud from the first. Millions of taxbucks flooding into the flooded Crescent City have fostered a flood of official corruption. Hundreds of picayune politicos, including cops, teachers, judges, highway officials, city councilcrats, and a former school-board president have been charged with bribery, fraud, payoffs, and shakedowns. The final score isn't in yet, but bureaucratic bungling and corruption will likely cost American taxpayers more than the bashing New Orleans took from Katrina. So what does all of this have to do with the proposals to impose a nationalized health-delivery scheme upon us all? Like a dog that can't pass a tree without giving it a hind-legged salute, government can't do anything without creating a bureaucracy. This will be the mother of all bureaucracies, spending not billions but trillions of taxbucks, administered by bureaucrats just like those FEMA functionaries, swindled for millions by people like the counterfeit Katrina victims, and plundered for billions by the multitudes of powercrats nationwide. Libertarians like to quote the Iron Law of Bureaucracy: All bureaucracies exist primarily to benefit the people who run them. Patients will be nothing more than the fodder that fertilizes the federal medical factory that feeds the bureaucrats. Expect to sit for months while cynical civil servants decide whether to rubber-stamp requests for cancer treatments or critical surgeries - or to simply let you die waiting. Every person now employed in any phase of medical care will become slaves of the bureaucrats. They will no longer serve their patients. They will serve the shiftless paper-shufflers. Doctors with even an eyedropper of self-esteem will flee the system and set up clinics in places such as Mexico and Costa Rica and Thailand. And that's where moneyed patients will go. But don't worry about the ruling classes in Washington and statehouses nationwide. They'll have a taxpayer-paid premier health system set up just for themselves and their families. Powercrats always take care of their own. Government health care is not about health. It's about control. Welcome to FEMAcare.
More of Garry Reed's writing can be found at (http://www.freecannon.com).
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  written by Sunni Maravillosa, November 29, 2007
You are, sadly, quite right about how universal health care will end up. And how the powercrats will evade the mess they make. It's the way of socialism.
written by lewlew, November 29, 2007
Excellent observations, Mr. Reed. I really like how you've used a current gov-bungle that everyone can relate to, to explain how universal health care will follow in kind.
There's a reason why moneyed Canadian patients come to the states for medical care, and their M.D.s come here to practice after their state-paid schooling. You are spot on, in the same thing will happen here if the gov't meddles in health care any more than it does now.
written by Nedda, November 29, 2007
If you want to see how government health care will work, look no further than the V.A. hospitals. Even the mainstream media has reported on the lousy conditions found there.
written by Robert Alexander, November 30, 2007
Advocates of different forms of government run healthcare always imagine a best-case scenario. When they compare that to the status quo, obviously their imagination wins.
But many of the problems will remain. For example, I've been fighting with my insurance company because they received two bills from my doctor for services on the same day: an examination, and lab tests. The insurance company thinks they're duplicate bills (even though they're different amounts). Government funded care would still run into confusions like this. They can't just pay every bill blindly, or they'd be wide open to fraud. Granted, my problem is relatively small. But before jumping on the government bandwagon, think hard about what limitations the government would have to impose in real-world scenarios. It's not going to be a perfect system, and as Garry points out, it could be severely flawed.
written by Michael-DAV, November 30, 2007
Very good points all around. I think that Robert Alexander probably touched on the main problem facing health care in this country:Insurance Companies.
I know that Insurance is often times connected to health care, but they are actually competing institutions. Insurance companies do not want to help. Health care professionals do want to help. This is the obvious problem. Health costs are skyrocketing not because the doctors want more money, but because the insurance companies keep low balling them on payments. If a health care professional bills the correct amount for the care, they get half. The way to combat this is to charge double so that they get what they should have received in the first place. Law states that everyone must be charged the same amounts so the non-insured end up paying the inflated costs caused by the insurance companies unwillingness to pay the correct amounts. It seems to me we should be reforming the insurance companies rather than the health care institutions. That will never happen because the insurance companies have got more money than God or Country and therefore are beholden to neither allowing them to be unrestricted by morals or laws. They pay for legislative action because it is cheaper than paying for their customers to get the proper care.
written by Michael-DAV, November 30, 2007
By the way, I think the proper terminology should be FEMAcans in order to not misrepresent the president who is solely responsible for putting complete morons in charge of important offices. That being said, I don't want to add CAN to the word since it is obvious that they CAN'T. Maybe FEMAcraticans might be the most appropriate.
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