For anybody who has had to rely on the VA or military
healthcare, the VA scandal comes as no surprise. The military and our veterans have been given
the awful privilege of being the first victims of single-payer healthcare in
the country. For decades the military
has been subjected to government run hospitals and healthcare. Run by the government and accountable only to
the government, these healthcare systems produce results that are typical of
any government program. Veterans dying
while on fake waiting lists even as government bureaucrats give themselves
bonuses for reducing wait times.
Would you want the DMV to provide your healthcare? That's not really a rhetorical question. Functionally, that is what military members
and veterans have had to put up with.
And now, thanks to the inherent (you might say intentional) flaws of
Obamacare, within a few years of steadily poorer performance, all Americans
will probably be subjected to it as well.
The PPACA is not designed to provide cheaper healthcare, increase
wellness, reduce the deficit or do any of the other happy horse crap that Obama
promised. The PPACA was intended to be
the government camel's nose in the healthcare tent; a precursor to government-run
single payer healthcare.
Why would the Democrats want the government involved in
healthcare? Well, I guess because it
would make Americans dependent on the government for their healthcare. The Democrats have seen how that worked in
Europe and they want to replicate it here.
It doesn’t necessarily improve healthcare, but it does significantly
increase the size, scope and power of the government. When people are dependent on government for
their healthcare they are much more likely to continue voting for the party
that promises the ‘free’ healthcare.
When government pays for everybody’s healthcare it can also exercise an
enormous degree of control over them.
You think bans on transfats and 16 ounce sodas are intrusive, wait until
politicians and bureaucrats can use your healthcare costs as justification to
control your behavior.
There are many examples both here and abroad of what happens
when governments take control of healthcare; loss of economic vigor and
personal freedom are the norm. We have
the benefit of learning from those examples before were irrevocably commit
ourselves to that fate. We can choose to
avoid going done that destructive path.
If we do not, your quality of life and the very nature of America as we
know it will both change for the worse.
