Bama Embraces Wal-Mart style leveraging for Health Care

Bama was on TV again today taking questions from people following online, and once again he was asked if he will pressure Congress to either accept the "Government Option" as their own plan or make their plan available to the general public.

Bama dodged, as always, saying the reason Congress's plan is so good is that the federal bureaucracy can leverage its enormous employee base to get the best care at the best price from insurance companies. This is a purposeful misstatement. Not all Federal employees get the Congressional health plan - that is reserved for members of Congress. Imagine going to the hospital whenever you want, with almost no notice, and being able to see any specialist without first visiting a primary care provider, and immediately walking into any requested test or procedure without any wait and then not paying a penny, ever. That's the Congressional health plan and that's the President's personal plan. All the costs are passed on to the taxpayers. It's a perk of the job and since Congress and the President write the law they can do for themselves anything they wish and we pick up the tab.

Obviously, offering the Congressional health plan to the public is impossible. The Health Care industry would immediately implode in the worst conceivable sense.

On the other hand, Bama likes his plan - he's the president, after all, and congress recently voted to keep theirs and they are immune to any of the ramifications of nationalized health care. They sure as hell don't want to wait for anything or pay for anything or have anyone else tell them what procedures they can or cannot get. They fully expect the rest of us to do exactly that and then thank them in 2010 with easy reelection campaigns. Yeah, right.

In response, Bama said he wants to make the "Government Option" one of the choices that members of congress can select from when choosing their health care plan, as if that would ever happen in a million years. So he dodges and the handlers allow no intelligent rebuttal so it appears to the stupid Bama-worshipers out there as if he's answered the question when what he really just said was, "No."

The next question was about illegals being covered under the bill. Here bama breaks out the lawyer kit, answering the specific question asked, ala Bill Clinton, but not the intended question. He accomplishes this by simply reciting the word "illegals" several times and being comically emphatic that, "Illegals are not covered under any of the current bills!"

Well, okay, but what about "nonresident aliens"? Aka Illegals. If Bama was ever forced to answer the question with the correct terminology, he we either be exposed for what the bill actually contains or as a liar.

The primary bill out there right now, HR 3200, specifically states, "NONRESIDENT ALIENS- Subsection (a) shall not apply to any individual who is a nonresident alien."

Ok, so what's "Subsection (a)"? Here it is: "Tax Imposed- In the case of an individual who does not meet the requirements of subsection (d) at any time during the taxable year, there is hereby imposed a tax equal to 2.5 percent of the excess of-- (the taxpayer's income)" Well, of course that would not apply to illegals, err, nonresident aliens, because they cannot be legally accounted for in the tax rolls. Nevertheless, the implication is that they cannot be turned down for the government option, either. What's "subsection (d)" you ask? Look it up here: http://thomas.loc.gov HR 3200, Section 59B. Basically, it defines anyone who would not otherwise be covered by an existing health plan, specifically not limiting illegals, I mean, nonresident aliens.

The bottom line? Bama is lying. And here's the rub - the guy has never - not even once - ever replied to a specific criticism about specific language in the bill. He can't. If he did he could only reinforce the opposition and expose his lies and misstatements and doom to failure not only this bill but the Democrat party's chances during the mid-terms. He can't do that. He can't tell the truth.

By the way, isn't leveraging buying power the same thing Wal-Mart does? How can the party that vilifies Wal-Mart for its purchasing practices then go and say the government does the same thing and isn't it great?!? Truth to power - that might be great, but it isn't what government does, which is why bureaucracies are inherently wasteful. You cannot simultaneously seek to stimulate the private sector while trying to strangle it with leveraging. Idiot.

Finally, someone asked why any of this was necessary if anyone can just walk off the street into the emergency room and be guaranteed care. Bama's response was that we want to free up the emergency rooms for real emergencies, "Like the child who has tuberculosis and can't get the immediate care they need."

There's Bama going off-script again. The child with tuberculosis? That's his example? That's the best his bleeding heart could come up with? Or does he seriously mean only children with TB should be eligible for emergency care? What about the white nazi child-rapist who while attempting to murder a batch of newborn kittens accidentally stabbed himself in the leg, severing an artery? Can he be refused emergency care?

Bama would probably say, "C'mon, get serious." To which I could only respond, how can anyone take the President seriously?

Seriously.