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2010
Soap Box Archives Summit Is there anybody out there who actually thought anything constructive would come out of the health care summit the President and various and sundry Democrats and Republicans held at Blair House this week? If you did, I’m sure you were thoroughly disappointed. The reason for that is it was never intended to be a health care summit in the first place. It was an attempt by Obama and the Democrats to make the Republicans look as if they are the ones to blame for not getting a health care bill passed. Without sounding as if I’m giving the Republicans undue credit, I’ll have to say that the effort to make the Republicans look bad only resulted in sordid point after sordid point of the bill being exposed to public scrutiny and even further cementing the resolve of those who vehemently oppose it. Almost everybody, myself included, believes that something should be done about the deplorable condition of health care coverage in America. Everybody wants a health care bill; they just don’t want this health care bill. The government should concentrate on fixing the parts of the program that are broken and leaving the rest alone. There are some things they really could do that would help the situation. For instance, Medicare is broken and broke. The new bill would take 500 billion dollars away from it, which will result in more and more doctors and hospitals refusing Medicare patients. What good is Medicare Insurance if you can’t find a doctor to treat you? When someone brings a frivolous lawsuit against a doctor or hospital, they should be required to pay for the lawyers for both sides if they lose. Malpractice suits should be settled for reasonable amounts and not whatever some lawyer thinks he can get. Doctors who treat Medicare patients should be adequately paid for their services and the ones who cheat the system should be sent to jail. There should be more clinics with capable nurse practitioners who are qualified to treat cuts, scratches and colds with the authority to write prescriptions for minor ailments, to take the load off the emergency rooms. American citizens should be able to buy health insurance from whatever source they want to, no matter whether the company happens to be in their home state or not. I speak as one who knows what he speaks about as every year the medical coverage I provide for my employees goes up and up and up, but I hardly think that the United States government and a bevy of bureaucrats are the ones to straighten it out. If you’ll examine their record you’ll see my apprehensions. They can’t even keep their grubby hands of the Social Security fund nor operate the post office in the black. One of the most salient points of Obama’s health care bill was brought up by a Republican, but never addressed by Obama or any of his cohorts, that is the abortion provisions. Obama just completely ignored the subject, never even acknowledging that there was an abortion provision in the bill, and in my book that is unacceptable. Federally funded abortion is a dangerous thing. The Democrats kept saying that the legislation would decrease the deficit. Have you ever known a government bill to decrease the deficit? Actually, it will increase the deficit by numbers we don’t even want to think about. The ultimate goal of Obama is government run health care. I know it, you know it and he knows it. What do you think? Pray for our troops, and for our country. God bless America Charlie Daniels
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