Obama should visit a Greek public hospital to get an idea of how Obamacare he is proposing to American people will look like. These hospitals do not have medicines, soap, gloves, and needles! If you go there for a surgery, your life is at great risk. Your relatives will have to buy all the needed supplies from the drugstores. Moreover, surgeons refuse to operate unless they receive a secret kickback! To see a doctor you have to call to make an appointment, but the phone is always busy. http://venitism.blogspot.com
Fifty doctors who worked at the largest hospital in Athens had performed five hundred cosmetic surgeries, but they reported appendix, heart, and eye operations in patient files. They did that because cosmetic surgery is not covered by insurance, and they had sent the bills to the patients' health insurance agencies.
It was a gang, and it even had the audacity to place the cosmetic surgery at the top of their priority lists, while patients with serious conditions and emergency cases were kept waiting. The case still hasn't seen the inside of a courtroom for many years. It often seems as if Greece had no judiciary. The judiciary itself is the big patient!
The individual mandate central to State health insurance is unconstitutional. The provision would force citizens to buy health insurance. A reasonable constitution created a government limited to its enumerated powers. Everything a parliament is allowed to do is spelled out. The powers not delegated to the government by the constitution are reserved to the people. http://venitism.blogspot.com
By forcing individuals to buy health insurance, a parliament has entered new territory. If a parliament can penalize a passive individual for failing to engage in commerce, the enumeration of powers in the constitution would have been in vain for it would be difficult to perceive any limitation on government power, and we would have a constitution in name only. Surely this is not what the Founding Fathers could have intended.
Stupid governments seek to nationalize health care by placing so many restrictions and unfunded mandates on private insurance companies that they will go out of business. Government will then step in to manage Medicare for the entire population, rather than only the elderly. The government monopoly on health care will most surely go just about as well as the monopoly on the post office or public education. Medicare, even if kept only for the elderly population, is going bankrupt. The only question is when, not if, Medicare along with State retirement insurance will run out of money.
Our lives will be in the hands of doctors who have been told that they don't matter and that they are employees of the State. Their incentive will no longer be to provide excellent care. Their incentive will be to simply clock in, clock out, go through the motions and retire as soon as the government pension kicks in. Not all that different from many existing government employees. http://venitism.blogspot.com
The early result is a veritable flood of controversial rules and regulations, administrative decisions, and guidelines directly affecting the lives of all citizens. This regulatory regime, administered by unelected bureaucrats, is even more onerous because of the fundamental flaws of the hastily enacted legislation itself, including undefined provisions and unrealistic timeliness.
Those with the knowledge, access, and influence with the Administration are more likely to obtain exemptions than those who are not so fortunate. The new law allows the HHS Secretary to apply the provisions of the law and to enforce it as she sees fit, thus granting the Secretary the right to determine winners and losers.
Before the 1960s, Americans who didn't get their insurance through work typically got it through civic organizations such as churches and social clubs. Now they're more likely to get it through government public programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The result? Greater dependence on government. http://venitism.blogspot.com
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