socialized medicine.

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Sen. Clinton thinks the public might be back in the mood for socialized medicine. You know, rather than people actually paying for things themselves, or purchasing private insurance...government would pay for everything
The disastrous Medicare prescription drug plan just took effect. This will lead people to expect the feds to pay for their pills. Already we're seeing stories about how the Medicare prescription drug plan (and it's $1 trillion+ price tag) is not doing enough. Hillary says she's going to fix it. She also says "I'm determined to do the same with access to affordable health care as well."
The private market place has a mechanism to handle affordable health care. They're called health savings accounts, or HSA's. A person in need of insurance buys one, puts money into it, pays for their own small bills, and the major medical insurance covers large, unexpected expenses. But Hillary doesn't like that either.
Socialized medicine in the United States is coming, and I don't think that there is anything that can stop it. Slow it down, maybe. Stop it? No way. Over the past two or three generations Americans have almost formed a universal belief that their health care is not their personal responsibility. Health care is something that should be paid for by the government or by an employer, but never by the individual.
Just why do you think your employer can deduct the cost of a health insurance policy it provides to you, but you can't deduct the cost of a health insurance policy you buy for yourself? Why is that? Come on, folks. THINK for a moment. I know you went to government schools, but really strain on this one? Why? It's easy! Because the politicians want you to adopt the attitude that it is always somebody else's responsibility to provide you with health care, never your responsibility. This is all to soften you up for the idea of socialized medicine.
Make no mistake. Politicians will love socialized medicine. The political class knows full well that when you control someone's access to health care, you control that person. A government that can tell you which doctor to go to, and when; a government that can threaten to put you in jail if you dare to go to a doctor on your own without the requisite government stamp of approval; a government that can control your access to prescription medicine .. that's a government that has you by the short hairs. To the Beltway crowd, it's all about making you weaker and government stronger. Strength equals power ... and power is a political aphrodisiac.


Boortz