So you may be wondering - why another blog from yet another conservative female? Isn't Ann Coulter enough? If she was enough, then this country would finally be headed down the right track. Without more of us using our voices and speaking out against all that is wrong with our federal government, we will never experience freedom in this day and age as we were meant to experience it when the founders established this country.
The founding fathers didn't found this country all by themselves. I know people tend to hear "Founding Fathers" and think of a bunch of white men standing around in their white wigs deciding what was best for the rest of the country. A country is not founded by a handful of people alone. Sure, they led the effort to break free of England's rule; but without the support of the people, they would have never succeeded.
I know there is a lot of information and conservative talk show hosts, radio hosts, etc. that will go on and on about our country's founding principles. These are very important. However, the heart of the matter is the liberty that is being trampled on now and a complete disregard for the Constitution that our elected officials have sworn (yes - every one of them) to uphold. Our liberty has been slowly drained Act by Act in congress over the last 70 years or so while the silent majority has been sleeping. I'm here to tell you - we are silent no more. We have been awakened by the request for enormous expansion of the federal government at the peril of individual freedoms, and without the consent of the people. Big Brother was not the friend of the people in the novel "1984", and it isn't a friend of the people today.
There are many countries today that have travelled the road we are on as a country to which we can view the outcome of this path. In Great Britain, Germany, France and many other countries, the people disdain their universal healthcare. I personally was subject to universal healthcare in Great Britain during a tour their a few years back and can tell you first hand - it's not all it's cracked up to be. The politicians promise better health care as a result of their massive bill. Tell me if you think this is better:
2 week waits for ALL lab results
Waiting lists for surgeries
Doctor assignments based on where you live - not on who will provide the best care
4 hour waits in general practioners offices
Lesser quality of care
Needing to ask for procedures such as lab work, MRIs and Xrays to be completed vs. the doctor recommending them
Do you think I'm exaggerating? Or maybe you think that the above won't happen to you? These were all experienced by me personally in two separate socialist medicine countries - the majority in England, but some also in Germany where I lived as a child. Are you wondering why all the waiting? Patient care takes a back burner to cost when the government is running things. That means fewer doctors with more patients and less time per patient. Quotas are generally imposed in order to meet ridiculous government standards. Healthcare is no longer about the patient and his/her illness. It becomes about how many minorities the doctor has treated this week and incentives not to prescribe expensive procedures for a few examples.
If you think the government will do a better job than the private insurance companies at keeping costs down, just consider a few other government programs and how well you think they fair - both in economical and efficiency terms:
The US Postal Service - net loss of $3.8 Billion in fiscal year 2009
Medicare - $68 Billion in Fraud in 2009 alone
Medicaid - $33 Billion in Annual Fraud
And the government has a poor track record of estimating costs of their gigantic programs. Even if you get to keep your health insurance, the health care bill is going to cost you in taxes and in freedoms.
One thing I know to be true - until you have read the bill, you have no right to discuss it, have no right to judge it, have no right to be for or against it. Because until you have read the bill, you won't know what the bill will or will not do. So my next post will be the bill itself - HR 4872.
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