Wednesday, April 14, 2010

My Health Is Cared For

The “healthcare bill” that was recently passed in spite of bi-partisan opposition only gives the federal government more control over our lives. It will not reduce costs. It will not improve care. It will however ensure that there is an equal distribution of misery among us, the people. I don’t like it. I want to be able to decide with my doctor how to address my health issues - not have the government do it for me through some faceless bureaucrat in a cubicle somewhere in Washington D.C. Who in their right mind wants to have the most intimately personal choices in their life dictated by someone whose chief interests are payday and quitting time? Yes, I know that’s not what the President said when he was smearing lipstick on this pig and bribing his own party with our money in order to pass it. What government has done to American healthcare over the last 50 years is like the busy-body neighbor who comes over uninvited to help paint your house and somehow manages to burn it to the ground. We’ll soon be like our neighbors to the north where you have to wait 18 months for a hip replacement but you can get a sex change operation the next day. Perhaps we’ll be reduced to scraping up bribes to get doctors to do what we need instead of what the feds will allow. If in need of a new hip, we can sign up for a sex change and just say,”well, since you’re switching around things in the general area and I’m under anesthesia anyway, here’s an extra five or ten large for you and the operating room team. Please fix my hip so I’ll be able to walk around and show off my new private pieces.”

Tuesday, April 13, 2010