THE DEMOCRATS’ PERNICIOUS HEALTH HOAX

John F. Gaski, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame , IN 46556
(574) 631-5266
jgaski@nd.edu

By now the realization should be taking hold that the Democrats’ health care plan has been exposed as a hoax.  And it was the Democrats themselves who discredited and exposed it, but in a very ironic way.  Of course, you won’t hear this bombshell news reported by Democrat partisans Katie Couric, Charles Gibson, and Brian Williams.

As for the substance, remember the Democrats’ original rationale for their national health care takeover scheme?  They wanted all uninsured Americans to be covered, right?  Remember?  But now they concede that their mega-upheaval of a plan would still leave about 15 million without medical insurance.  Yet they still advocate the plan!  Why?

First, a digression:  Don’t believe that “47 million uninsured” number.  That canard is beyond a hoax.  It is a fraud and a lie.  For example, it includes at least 10 million illegal aliens (yes, that is the right term for those who enter our country by violating American law) and another five million or so legal foreign residents.  Those categories are not “uninsured Americans” because they are not Americans.  The notorious 47M also includes millions of wealthy people who do not purchase medical insurance—rendering themselves self-insured, not uninsured.  The biggest deceptions of all may be counting a large cohort of the young and vigorous who make the rational cost/benefit decision not to buy medical insurance yet, and several million others who qualify for free insurance and just don’t bother to sign up!  Bottom line, subtract out the un-uninsured and other inapplicable categories and the true number of Americans without health insurance is somewhere around seven million, maybe ten conservatively (compared with 15 million after Democrat “reform”?).  Google the issue for about ten minutes to verify.

Another way the Democrats inadvertently reveal their own national health insurance dishonesty is through infidelity to a second objective, cost control.  Remember that one?  They are hoping you don’t, especially since the Congressional Budget Office has reported that the Obama-Democrat scheme would add $1 trillion to the national health tab over the next decade.  Yet the Dems still want their plan.  Why?

Why, indeed?  It must be something else, therefore.  If their own action undermines their stated aims, and still they desperately favor the action, then the Democrats’ real purpose must be something different, something they will not reveal.  But what?  Simple:

Have you noticed how the Washington Democrats like to take control of things, particularly big things in the economy such as the major banks and the auto industry, as well as health care?  (Barack Obama has realized that he doesn’t have to literally own the banks to control them.  He can, instead, achiev e control through bank dependence on TARP money and through his own coercion and intimidation.  Step out of line, that is, and a bank will be publicly vilified by Barney Frank and other operatives, and maybe even have its executives prosecuted.) When American business, American jobs, and the American people become totally dependent on Barack Obama and the Democrats for money and credit, including student loans for good measure, how much power will that give the Obama Democrats over our country?  The portrait coming into focus is one of either totalitarian socialism or an unholy socialist hybrid with fascism.

And when you are dependent on the decision of a Democrat bureaucrat for crucial medical treatment, how much power does that give the Democrats over you?  (Do you suppose party registration or political contributions might enter the bureaucrat’s calculus?  Recall how, in the GM reorganization, the Dems axed profitable dealers who were known to be Republican.)  When the Democrats achieve literal death-grip power over the lives of all our people, that is when they also achieve their long-cherished dream of absolute power and a Democrat dictatorship.  Dictatorship in a virtual one-party state is the correct forecast because our present rulers can never be voted out of national power after they grant amnesty to the millions of illegal aliens, who would promptly be registered as mostly Democrat voters by Acorn!  Now do you see what the real scheme is?  Now does it all make sense? This is not your father’s Democrat party.

This is also not about health care, ultimately.  It is about raw political power and the long-promised socialist takeover of the United States .  (Note:  I cannot prove that President Obama is a socialist and I cannot prove he is a communist, but it is easy to prove that he is one or the other.  You could do that for yourself.  Ready?  When in the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama’s voting record was to the left of Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the one admitted socialist in that body—who naturally gravitates to the Democrats, for some reason.  If Barack Obama is further to the left than Senator Sanders politically, then he is either a more extreme socialist or something even more radical left.  Q.E.D.)

No public option, they now suggest?  Don’t believe it.  They’ll create a public option, soon to become the only option, by stealth—a kind of Fannie-Freddie co-op, because government control, in this case medical dictatorship, is an article of theology for the lib Dems.

We do not have a health care crisis in this country—because everyone already gets health care.  It is just that some rely on the emergency room as their private medical services provider, so the system is inefficient and definitely too expensive overall.  We do have a health insurance problem, and a health care cost crisis, but not a national health care crisis.  And both real problems are readily manageable if the Dems would only allow it. We need to permit and foster interstate insurance competition, medical savings accounts, and tort reform to help reduce costs, and tax credits for health insurance purchase to expand coverage—from about 98% of the population, in reality, to closer to 100%.  Those numbers also help punctuate, and puncture, the true nature of the liberal Democrats’ health hoax.

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Incidentally, or not, despite the Democrats’ fumbling o f this whole issue, the Republicans are succumbing to their opponents’ red herring, straw man, jiu-jitsu diversionary misdirection on the “death panels” matter.  It is not those prospective end-of-life counseling “services” that are the real death panels, although that is a fair term for them.  The real Democrat death panels would be the thousands of politically-appointed bureaucrats wielding life-and-death power over our citizenry through their decisions concerning whether to bestow or withhold life-saving treatment.  Again, can you foresee a time when the Washington Democrats will let it leak that you are more likely to be approved, and saved, if you have a record of contributing to Democrat candidates?  The Democrats play politics with everything else, don’t they?  If you haven’t thought of this, the Dems sure have.
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This is it, America .  This isn’t really about a health policy issue; it is about the survival, or takeover, of our nation.  If the Dems succeed in cramming their bitter medicine, actually poison, down your throat, the country is finished.  It is the town hall protestors who seem to sense this most clearly.  I hope the preceding diagnosis and prognosis help, too.

The author, a recognized authority on the nature and sources of social and political power, has been a registered Democrat for over 20 years. He is also author of the recently published Frugal Cool:  How to Get Rich—Without Making Very Much Money (Corby Books, 2009).

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