America, land of free enterprise and independence. We’ve always thought of it this way. It’s the land of the free and the home of the brave. But every day it seems like we’re losing our grip on freedom, and there are fewer and fewer brave people in our country. Today we stand on the brink of a major change in the way our country works. This has happened before. During the Roosevelt administration, we had many changes, some of which were for the best. Others however, have run their coarse and become burdens on the economy, such as our nearly bankrupt social security system. The fact is that the government is notoriously bad at running things.

First off is a simple question of ethics. No matter what the government tells you, socialized health care won’t be free. It could be paid for by the government rather than by your taxes, but where would the money come from? Well we might take it out of our military budget, which admittedly is high. But we only have these ridiculously high costs because of the fact that the military is run by the government. We could also cut costs in our education system, but do you really want money taken out of our already defunct school system?

Now I’m not saying that private companies should run the government; I’m just saying that our government is to money as a Hummer is to gasoline. Do you really want your health to be hinged on an organization that’s that inefficient?

Chances are, eventually we’ll be taxed for it. Now imagine that you never get sick, and that you take good care of your body. Imagine another person, who eats fried fat every day and drinks enough cafine to fill a bathtub. You’re money will be taken away by the government to pay for part of his invariable triple bypass. Now tell me if that’s fair. Tell me that you’re all right with paying for another person’s mistakes. Admittedly, we don’t all cause our own diseases, but it’s still wrong to be forced to pay for another person’s burden. We all have our troubles in life, and our own responsibilities that we cannot force on another person.

So, invariably, the government will basically make you pay a hospital bill even though you don’t have health issues, which is wrong, just like you have to pay for education even though you don’t have kids, which is also wrong, and like you have to pay for other people’s retirement, which, again, is wrong.

When I say the word politician or beurocrat, is your first reaction positive or negative? If you’re like most Americans, it’s probably negative. Politicians and beurocrats see us as dollar signs, and some people are worth more to them than others.

This is where the Complete Lives System comes in, brought to you by your pall Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, brother of our other good ol’ friend Rahm Emanuel. The Complete Lives system would essentially give priority to people ages 15 to 40, supposedly because these people haven’t lived a full life, but they still don’t give priority to newborns or the very young. This is because they haven’t invested money in them, and there isn’t enough of a payoff for someone who is too old, so your premature newborn can forget about that incubator. It’s all a numbers game. Now you might not think this will be a problem. I mean, there won’t be any rationing right?

Wrong. Reality check; this is the government we’re talking about. They are notoriously bad with recourses. The fact is that the government will make a scarcity.
I give you the case of my grandfather, who fought in World War II. He was in need of a bypass, a very expensive procedure. He could have gotten it done for free at a government run veterens’ hospital, but refused. He preferred to go to a normal hospital, for an expensive procedure, rather than get it done for free at the substandard facilities of a government run organization. Now imagine that same scenario, accept it’s you instead, and you don’t have a choice. You have to go to the government hospital.

“Oh,” you say to me, “That will never happen. Obama says we can keep our own health plans and doctors, and they’re not socializing the hospitals, just the insurance.” This is true. And you will be able to keep your health plan. You just won’t be able to purchase one, according to the latest bill. That means that if you don’t have a plan, you’ll have to go with the government plan, and if your company drops your insurance, you’ll have to go with the government. Before you know it there aren’t any health insurance businesses anymore.

Then there’s the matter of the hospitals. The car dealers are still waiting for their Cash for Clunkers money, and it’s the insurance companies that pay the hospitals. If the government takes over, how long do you think it will take for the money to be paid?

I’m not saying healthcare doesn’t need reform. I’m just saying that it doesn’t need this kind of reform. I believe that healthcare should be tax exempt, which would decrease the amount of money that healthcare costs in the first place. We could also make hospitals cheaper by encouraging the old fashioned consumer driven non-profits like Scottish Rite and many religious hospitals. That would bypass insurance altogether. This is actually how healthcare used to be until the corporations started taking over. Complete socialization or government funded non-profit organizations, however, will drag us and our posterity into the pit that our government will undoubtedly dig.