It’s No Competition: We Need Private Health Care

Could we take care of ourselves?  It might sound like a revolutionary question in a world where a smiley Barack Obama gets to add his signature to his signature run-your-life initiative.

But the Age of Entitlements is already fading in esteem, as Americans grow increasingly wary of going bankrupt funding free stuff.  Countless repulsed individuals have a renewed appreciation for the freedom to, say, enjoy dinner without being forced to consider how many calories the entrée contains.

More urgently, we’d like to pick doctors that haven’t first been approved by Queen Nancy of the Castro District.  The health sham that’s as unpleasant as it is detested embodies the view of citizens as rubes who shouldn’t be allowed to brush their teeth without a federal monitor.

A sad majority of federal politicians don’t trust us.  But that shouldn’t stop us.  Thankfully, a high percentage of wisely cautious people nationally reject national health.  In doing so, they implicitly comprehend that the health industry responds just like any other commercial segment: we can serve as our own regulators.  It would feel suddenly empowering if the majority of people didn’t recognize such a reality all along.

Stupakare, as the catastrophic bill can be referred to in honor of the dastard who enabled passage, is designed to achieve the modest goals of eliminating life’s worries and ending the need for personal responsibility.

In sadly classic mammoth-government style, the atrocious legislation supposedly keeps down costs while improving care and covering everyone for everything.  It’s the most dreadful fairy tale ever written, although the endless pages of legalistically soporific language still makes the bill suitable for bedtime reading.

By contrast, the nation is looking for a less utopian but more not-awful-here-in-reality plan where we can make our own money and in turn buy our own things, including voluntary indemnities against calamity.  While we’re at it, we can help our own, which is a foreign concept to temporary Washingtonians who don’t think any of us can even help ourselves.

Why doesn’t the ruling party ever believe that we’ll donate to charities in order to help the truly needy instead of expecting the government to do it?  Do they not trust us?  Oh, right: that’s a yes.  They’ll presumably accept that we can be counted upon to donate treasure and time to worthwhile causes at about the same time they conjure the name of a federal program that has saved money at any point ever.

The sanctimoniousness about the necessity of a federal imposition into health care is accompanied by obliviousness about the true nature of assistance.  Many conservatives would be more than happy to teach proponents of a law endorsed by murderous thug tyrant Fidel Castro and zombie Che Guevara how to write a check and charitably send it to a hospital.  It’s a similar process to how churchgoers drop off canned goods at the parish’s food pantry instead of relying upon the state to provide for needy.  Congregation members may have to conduct seminars.

The mechanism for helping is nearly as important as the notion of helping.  There’s nothing emptier than forced compassion: using Washington as a charity is only suitable if humans are as universally destitute as they are greedy.  Give people the opportunity to excel, and, amazingly, they may just freely help those in need after achieving prosperity.  Privately-generated kindness will help those with pre-existing conditions more than any plan Harry Reid likes ever would.

And private helping works best.  As with competition in any other industry, charities are most efficient when they have to work at attracting dollars and prove that they’re actually beneficial.  Naturally, Obamacare backers don’t understand.

Of the countless problems with the intermediary in question, the federal government has a tendency to spend about one jillion more times than it promised it would.  They prefer nicking your American Express, as cash and debit cards only sustain reckless purchasing for so long.  The key is to move quickly before the inevitable issue of a nationwide hold.

Somehow, the left is shocked that the deficit will be increasing beyond its present astronomical rate thanks to the importation of Havana Health.  A lot.  Don’t blame the calculator, either: the Congressional Budget Office can only issue projections based upon the oft-dubious assumptions they’re handed.  As our nation’s youths phrase it using their parlance, the CBO would tell us to kindly hate the game, not the playa.

Still, abusing the precision of mathematics via crooked submissions to the budget office is nothing compared to the hollow concerns expressed during the bill’s advocacy phase.  For one, anti-insurer warriors just love moaning about inhuman conglomerates dropping people who contract serious ailments.

That said, we could end the crisis with signed contracts identifying the services that the company is willing to offer if we give them our currency.  All we need to do is make demands.

And we have a secret regulatory power in the form of being able to shop elsewhere.  If one company won’t offer a resolute guarantee that they’ll provide services in exchange for our patronage, we can find one that will.  If you don’t like the taste of what Pretzel Time sells, walk to the other end of the mall and purchase one of Auntie Anne’s offerings. 

Companies fear losing our business when potential clients are permitted access to unlimited preferences.  It’s some sort of market imbued with freedom.  There’s no ludicrously counterproductive DMVesque exchange necessary.  Screwing over customers is bad for business.

But Pelosi’s evil dojo doesn’t trust either side of the free market transaction.  Their audacity is unending, as seen in their doglike focus on taxing “unearned income.”  Their ravenous craving for seizing any gains they can corresponds to their belief that wealthy people don’t deserve wealth.

Classifying such proceeds as “unearned” is also a blatant untruth.  If you put money in an account, stock, bond, or whatever and make interest or dividends, then you’ve earned it.  You don’t need to punch a time clock to profit.

Only the present House majority could think that you deserve a financial penalty for the misdemeanor of acquiring earnings from letting banks or corporations use your initial investment.  They’d tax you extra for the purchase of the shovel and strongbox you use to bury your nest egg in the swamp if they could.

But Obama and crew just love to concern themselves with other people’s pocketbooks.  Compelling that focus by force of jackbooted nerds is just another alarming aspect of their sickly law.  Worst is that it’s one of the myriad rotten aspects we’ve learned about after passage.  In medical terms, the surgeon made a sizable incision to look inside for what needs fixing when a cursory external examination would have established that invasive care was wholly unnecessary.

We didn’t need this procedure, and it’s now a matter of avoiding being permanently strapped to the operating table without access to anesthetic.  The only question is whether we can stay outraged over the reduction of consumer options through the next two major elections.

But we’ve already sustained contempt for Obama’s woeful philosophy for a year and a quarter, and that was before his beloved gibberish became law.  The legislation will surely fuel the flames through November, especially considering there are thousands of pages that deserve immolation.

Of course, we’ll be accused of fear-mongering for pointing out that the bill will deleteriously affect both the finances and fitness of the elderly, young, poor, rich, middle class, and every other human being who has or may potentially have a health problem.  But rattling off the legislation’s actual troubles beats shamefully and shamelessly parading victimized children or telling urban legends to close the sale.

Happily, the melodramatic pandering failed even as the legislation squeaked through, as the bill is remarkably unpopular in every location excepting the Capitol.  The only people who want to further enable Congress are congressmen, something which more of the public realizes daily as they add themselves to a clear majority.

Voters are capable of making sure they’re not ripped off, deciding what coverage they need, and taking care of each other.  In short, they’re smarter than Democrats think they are.

As an example, we know that health care will no longer be merely one-sixth of the economy as costs skyrocket exponentially while the rest of the economy correspondingly shrinks: that fraction will grow to terrifying proportions.  Best of all, people figured that out with no help from Washington.

For dunces at the mercy of insurance firms, the rabble sure uncovered who the true foe of health progress is rather adeptly.  As a hint, the archenemies of enterprise will have trouble finding work after they lose their current positions in November, namely because companies will stop growing in order to avoid Stupakare’s numerous penalties.  At least the market plunderers will directly reap the consequences.  Being a class-warfare pirate never pays.

Anthony Bialy is a freelance writer and “Red Eye” Conservative in Western New York.  He blogs at http://thebuffalobean.com and tweets at http://twitter.com/AnthonyBialy.

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