Obama Care ?

Obama-Care For All My Friends


Everything we need to know about the democrat-sponsored universal health care plan is expressed in the reaction of democratic legislators to a House Resolution by Louisiana Congressman John Fleming, himself a medical doctor. Congressman Fleming’s resolution proposes that members of the House of Representatives withdraw from their current Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and agree to enroll in the public health care option that has come to be called Obama-Care.

While some 40 republican congressmen have signed on, including House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), NOT ONE democrat congressman has agreed to support this resolution. However, they have spared no expense urging immediate passage of this plan for our benefit. If this plan to place the best health care system in the world under government control was beneficial to its intended recipients in any way, congressmen should be lining up in great numbers to get aboard. The failure of democrats to do so speaks out loudly and clearly. This is just another naked attempt to gain control of the crucial health care sector to guarantee an endless supply of voters looking for a free lunch.

We might examine another recently established bureaucracy to get a flavor of how Obama-Care might play out for us. Let’s take a look at the Transportation Security Administration, of the Department of Homeland Security. This group was established in the wake of 9/11 to provide security in airports. These are the ladies and gentlemen who search baggage, check driver’s licenses and boarding passes, and make us remove our potential shoe bombs before proceeding to the gate at the airport.

How has the Department of Homeland Security staffed this new administration? They have gone out and hired thousands of personnel at entry-level pay grades. They have given them the positional authority to choose whom to admit to the passenger gates, whom to harass, and whom to wave on undeterred. These are the folks who remove elderly women from the queue for extensive searches, in case one of these grandmothers was interested in conducting a terrorist attack. These same people would be reticent to remove a young Arab male from the same queue for fear of being charged with profiling. Many of these people perform their jobs admirably. But the fact that they must deal with thousands of customers each day, and the fact that they are the Privates and PFCs of the Department of Homeland Security, minimizes the latitude with which they can operate. That’s why they must rigidly confiscate water bottles instead of letting you demonstrate that the contents are potable and not explosive. That’s too much latitude for entry-level employees.

How would the Obama-Care Administration be staffed? It would be staffed in exactly the same way. Of course, the upper level staff would be all political appointees receiving tenured and highly-compensated executive positions. But the majority of the new staff would be entry-level functionaries, who will be entrusted with the authority to determine what doctors we may visit, what medications we would be allowed to take, what procedures are appropriate for our treatment. Indeed, these people will have the authority to deny us health care if we don’t “qualify.” They could refuse health care to those of us who smoke, skydive, scuba dive, climb mountains, drive SUVs, ski, or drink alcohol. Will we have the same access to health care as the “domesticated” health care consumers?

Just ask the TSA guy at the airport if you can fly with your water bottle?