The Left Pushes Linguistic Lunacies in Health Care by Michael Rulle
The Bear on Oct 18 2009 at 8:16 am | Filed under: Health Care
It is difficult watching the various discussions on “health care reform.” With health care back in the spotlight as the top story, so too comes the insane language the Left needs to use in order to push through this scheme.
Almost everything one hears about health care is a lie.
First, Medicare will be made smaller no matter what happens. Therefore, when Republicans defend Medicare in the service of (correctly) opposing the Democrats’ plan, it is dishonest. Any government program which gives consumers more of something than it costs to create will, naturally, be very popular. But Medicare is unsustainable at its current growth rate. Since senior citizens are the most passionately opposed to the Democratic plan, we won’t hear anything negative about Medicare from Republicans any time soon.
Second, the various news people should just stop using the phrase health care “reform.” Reform implies improvement. These proposals are true monstrosities. Even those who oppose the Democratic plans speak unwittingly on their behalf when they call these proposals “reforms.”
The language and phrasing by various politicians is a true wonder to behold. Senator Max Baucus said something like “we can’t afford not to do something,” as if any “something” will suffice. It is like a patient with a broken arm entering a hospital seeking relief. The head ER physician tells the patient, “we need to break your other arm.” When questioned by the patient, she is told, “we can’t afford not to do something.”
But the inanity of Baucus’ comment pales in comparison to Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill’s remarks yesterday on the O’Reilly Factor. She characterized the Baucus plan as constituting “a raise” for Americans. The Government mandates higher taxes, requires people to purchase insurance or be fined, insures more people by fiat, creates incentives for insurance companies to hike premiums, and funds this by promising to reduce Medicare expenditures “later.” Yet McCaskill says this bill will give “a raise” to the American people. She then invoked “States’ Rights” when questioned why she opposed interstate insurance competition. Now that is funny.
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What people here don’t understand is that health care reform has nothing to do with improving anything but the Government’s control over your life. The Republicans, along with the likes of Glenn Beck, no less, are helping enormously. Here’s how…they push for reform that says, basically, if you’re X, then you pay more for health care insurance, or risk not getting covered at all. This is simply behavior modification by fiat, the government’s way of telling you to start or stop doing whatever it thinks at the moment is the right thing to do. This should be fought from all sides, but no, those healthy people are just as fascist in their thinking as the left is. They see a chance to lessen, or so they think, their own health care costs (even though it will actually still go up, they’ll tell you the lie that it “went up less”, and you’ll swallow it), at the expense of others, and they take it. One of the shows, I forget which, had a great story about this effect. A poor couple was given a box with a button, and if they pushed this button, someone “they didn’t even know” would die, but they would get a lot of money. Eventually, they pushed it, and the guy came back, gave them the money, and took the box. They asked him, on his way out, what he would do with the box, and he said, “We’ll give it to someone else. Someone you don’t even know”. Everyone wants the money, but they don’t realize that it’s like, you want a dollar? Okay, give me five. You want ten, great, no problem, give me a hundred. You don’t like the deal now? Too bad, give me a hundred for bothering me, and tuck in that shirt, and quit smoking, or you can give me another five hundred. When is it time to shoot the monster, when it’s small and cute and killable, or when it’s so large everyone can tell it’s a monster and unkillable?