While driving across the desert and mountain Southwest to visit friends and family, I listened to the better part of David Hackett Fischer’s Washington’s Crossing. In the penultimate chapter, that Pulitzer Prize-winning historian quotes John Adams on the uprisings of the people of New Jersey after Washington’s victories at Trenton and Princeton:
[They] begin to raise their Spirits exceedingly, and to be firmer than ever. They are actuated by Resentment now, and Resentment coinciding with Principle is a very powerful motive.
We resent how President Obama is attempting to increase the size and scope of government while promising to hold the line on spending. The principle, now as then, is freedom–liberty.
*as President of the United States
So you are saying that you don’t have a problem with the insurance companies rationing health care by imposing pre existing conditions exclusions, dropping people when they get sick and actually need the coverage, imposing lifetime caps and causing a great many of Americans to endure bankrupcies due to catastrophic medical conditions. Well most of the country does and the only way to put a stop to all of this abuse by the insurance companies is to provide a robust public option. How are those multi-million CEO salaries working for you?
Um, NJ Liberal, where did I say any of those things in this post? Why don’t you address the point I made or find a more appropriate post to attach you string string of accusatory questions?
Why did Obama lie last night and say he wasn’t going to cover illegal aliens?
And NJBigot comes back.
He’s decreased my safety by continuing the last democrat administration’s policies of releasing terrorists. His economic policies have extended the depression reminding me of FDR. He’s elevated his friends in the slave trade to now receive government money. He’s encouraged intimidation and violence at the voting booth. His ‘green policies’ will restrict my freedom of movement faster. While in congress he voted for the previously largest bailout in history.
Just a few examples.
So you are saying that you don’t have a problem with the insurance companies rationing health care
Unfortunately, you don’t understand the concept of “rationing”.
Rationing is scarcity of a resource, not your unwillingness to pay the price for it. Your argument is akin to saying that BMWs are “rationed” because not everyone chooses to spend the money to buy one.
In your blabbering attempt at arguing that private insurance is “rationing”, you forget that, with private insurers, you have a choice; drop them and go to another one. If they won’t cover your treatment, you are free to go find someone else who does.
When the government takes over, that won’t happen. It can’t happen, because the government will be the only provider. You will have no choice to do otherwise.
And before you start to babble about how you could choose to pay your own money under government care, don’t forget; you already babbled that having to pay extra for health care constitutes “rationing”, so you are in essence already admitting that the government will TRULY ration care.