The Ghouls of Health Care

I keep hearing from the koolaid drinkers that we just don't understand how really great government health care will be. We're being sold a bill of goods by __ fill in the blank (insurance companies, right-wingers, conservatives, agitators, mindless rich people, greedy doctors, or any one of the usual suspects that the koolaid drinkers think are the reason people with real neurons do things) — of course the reality is that koolaid drinkers are motivated by the agenda. They are agenda-driven. Some of us are interested in self-determination, independence, and freedom. Our agenda is our own and not someone elses'. We think we should decide our fate without a lot of government pressure or help.

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The point is that most of the health care dollars are spent by the very ill, who are also by and large the elderly. So when you want to trim costs the expedient way, and government only knows one way to trim costs and it is never to increase efficiency, as I said the expedient way is to cut back on services. There are two pretty simple ways to do that, direct denial of services is the straight-forward way and that is done by profiling. "You're too old to receive that expensive procedure, take a pain pill." The other approach is to raise obstacles which cause delay of delivery of service and that's easy enough to do especially for bureaucrats. The example given of the "Death Book" which has been reinstated by the Obama administration's Veteran's Administration. Death Panels may be a somewhat unfair characterization of government counsels in so far as their stated purpose which is "bang for the buck" and you can't get any bang from the elderly and the very sick. Bring on the koolaid.