1. They don't do anything well except butt into the lives of free and law abiding citizens
2. Think about it, if you owned a business and had an employee that couldn't do ANYTHING well, would you turn over the future welfare of your family to that employee? OF COURSE NOT
3. What is one of the most important aspects of your life that if mis-handled, can shorten or eliminate your life or the lives of loved ones? YOUR HEALTHCARE
4. We absolutely cannot surrender something as individually sacred as our healthcare to the government to be used for election year threats and bargaining chips the way social security is today. Think about it, our healthcare needs to be grounded in something that we have much more faith in than crummy politicians that bend and flow with whatever direction the "current" political winds are blowing.
For those out there that disagree passionately with President Bush and his politics, I'm sure you wouldn't want him or his appointees to be in a position of control of your healthcare. Well, the other half of us are just as terrified that Hilliary will screw it up even worse than she tried to the first time
- so you can see, perceptions are bad no matter what side of the fence you line up on.
But she has absolutely hung her hat on this issue. And Obama has actually indicated that he will cram a universal healthcare program down our throats come hell or high water (which means whether it is a good one or not, he'll deliver it within 6 months of being elected). In fact, he said if congress didn't pass a healthcare program in the first 6 months of his presidency, he would take
their healthcare away - oh that's a brilliant way to get them to cooperate, threaten them...
What makes us think they wouldn't hold it over our heads in the future to strong arm us into something the same way he is threatening congress now?
5. And given the impersonal way government agencies look at statistics to make decisions, how do you feel about a computer or worse (a disgruntled goverment worker) looking over your medical records and the medical records of your family in order to determine if you will be lucky enough to be granted one of the rationed heart by-pass surgeries this year because there are more people waiting for them than the government has resources to provide them. NOT!
And, oh by the way, what about the millions of people in this country who make their living in the healthcare industry as doctors, nurses, pharmaceutical employees, private hospitals or clinics, therapists, technicians, etc. etc. etc. What about them??? Would they suddenly be forced to join some gov healthcare worker's union and give up their ability to improve their personal situation based on their own merits, hard work and experience because now the government will be evaluating their salaries to assign what they believe to be "fair market value" for their services based on "average performance?" I assure you that many of our best and brightest didn't spend hundreds of thousands of $ to go to medical school only to get sucked into the nightmare of socialized medicine.
We simply haven't had any of these debates as a country and yet, a vote for Hilliary or Obama would automatically be taken by them as a mandate to force socialized medicine on us immediately.
NO THANKS - Hands off my family's healthcare!!! Go try to figure out how not to pay $500 for a hammer first!
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