Related Link » Why Obamacare Is SinkingAnd the week after that, there will be legislation to provide free lunch for everyone, and a partridge in a pear tree. And if that doesn't buy your vote or float your boat, you can trade up for five golden rings, or 72 virgins. Anything the tooth fairy can do, The Obaminator can do better. That's a promise.
“This is not about politics? Then why is it, to take but the most egregious example, that in this grand health-care debate we hear not a word about one of the worst sources of waste in American medicine: the insane cost and arbitrary rewards of our malpractice system? When a neurosurgeon pays $200,000 a year for malpractice insurance before he even turns on the light in his office or hires his first nurse, who do you think pays? Patients, in higher doctor fees to cover the insurance. And with jackpot justice that awards one claimant zillions while others get nothing -- and one-third of everything goes to the lawyers -- where do you think that money comes from? The insurance companies, which then pass it on to you in higher premiums. But the greatest waste is the hidden cost of defensive medicine: tests and procedures that doctors order for no good reason other than to protect themselves from lawsuits. Every doctor knows, as I did when I practiced years ago, how much unnecessary medical cost is incurred with an eye not on medicine but on the law. Tort reform would yield tens of billions in savings. Yet you cannot find it in the Democratic bills. And Obama breathed not a word about it in the full hour of his health-care news conference. Why? No mystery. The Democrats are parasitically dependent on huge donations from trial lawyers. Didn't Obama promise a new politics that puts people over special interests? Sure. And now he promises expanded, portable, secure, higher-quality medical care -- at lower cost! The only thing he hasn't promised is to extirpate evil from the human heart. That legislation will be introduced next week.”
— By Charles Krauthammer; Friday, July 24, 2009
Am I being too cynical? Perhaps. Perhaps not cynical enough, though. Who can forget the video of the woman at the Obama Election-Victory Celebration, who rapturously welcomed the second coming because she no longer had to worry about her mortgage or putting gas in her car?
No, it's not about politics. It's about smoke, mirrors, greed, narcissism, cynicism, Communism, botulism, and every other-ism — except patriotism.
Post #863 This is not about politics?
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