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Rajjpuut's Folly on Monday, September 14, 2009 7:27:59 AM
Rajjpuut like most thinking people in this country found himself greatly UNDERwhelmed by Barak Obama’s ridiculous speech to congress and the American people supporting his unneeded Obamacare bill.
1. While much “newness” was feigned at, there was not one bona fide new approach to the “problem” that he sees (which he has severely misdiagnosed, more later) it was just more of the same with a few more lies thrown in to make it seem more palatable to Republicans and Independents and Conservative Democrats.
2. The big lies were so numerous that Rajjpuut hopes not to have missed any in the torrent that poured out of the president’s forked tongue.
A. A. The declaration was made that “only a few details need to be ironed out”: a huge lie: Since Obamacare arises from totally bogus premises such as “only government solutions can possibly work to solve people’s problems”; and “the bigger and more involved the government is in the details of everyone’s lives, the better everyone’s lives will be” its conclusions are predictably pure hogwash and there is certainly nothing like a near consensus out there requiring “ironing out only a few details.”
B. Bi-partisanship agreement was repeatedly suggested as obvious and true. What is obvious and true is that no Republican initiatives originally involved (such as complying with the Haynes act to prevent federal funding of abortion; such as complying with the “freedom of conscience provisions” that would NOT require a doctor to perform an abortion his conscience opposed; such as provisions requiring proof of citizenship and insisting that illegal aliens could not receive services; and most importantly Republican suggestions that HSA options for self-insurance be allowed and honored) . . . no Republican initiatives, not one of them, has been retained: all these crucial amendments have been removed by the Democratic majority in the various committees.
C. Obama's pretense that the “public option” is small potatoes when the whole idea in the words of Obama and Barney Frank is that they need to pass only a tiny hint of a public option to effectively mean that the camel’s nose is in the tent and within a decade or perhaps only five years ONLY government manadated health insurance will be available and private health insurance would be a memory at best.
D. The ludicrous pretense that forcing all people to have health insurance is equivalent to forcing all people to have car insurance; and that forcing employers to all have health insurance or pay into a “pot” to support government mandated health insurance is even constitutionally allowable.
E. The ludicrous proposition that “prior conditions” can be mandated for coverage and private insurers can still survive . . . since this is a definite losing proposition under any conceivable actuarial conditions . . . this would guarantee the destruction of private insurance and the supremacy of the public option that Obama insists is “no big deal.”
F. The biggest lie of all about Obamacare itself: “this is not a government takeover.” 1200 pages of new law is about to descend upon the people and their doctors . . . how much control and interference is needed, before someone calls it a “government takeover”?
G. The biggest omissions of all about Obamacare: its multiple "evil" purposes . . . to give much more control over health care to the liberal supporters of all things government spending boondoggle-wise; and to obscure the fact that all five of the worst government spending and government interference boondoggles (GSBs and GIBs) created by the liberal left wing of the Democratic Party brought us to the current mess:
1) Medicare now is obligated for $34 TRillion it can never hope to repay and it will officially go bankrupt in 2016. Obviously if these two simple facts can be brought to permeate the public consciousness . . . the likelihood of future GSBs and GIBs such as Obamacare itself will be dramatically reduced and much more limited government would result.
2) Medicaid is functionally bankrupt
3) Even though the bankruptcy date for Social Security is officially 2037, it too is functionally bankrupt . . . Obamacare is trying to do for Medicare what recent legislation did for Social Security . . . push its day of reckoning so far into the future that connection to the liberal congresses that created these bills is never made
4) Jimmy Carter’s 1977 mortgage-guarantee legislation led the nation to 19% inflation in 1980 and ACORN lawyer Barak Obama sued and extorted banks in 1995 and 1996 into making loans in line with the bill which, while required by law were utterly senseless and fiscally irresponsible.
5) Bill Clinton’s 1998 mortgage-guarantee law combined with the ’77 laws put the country’s financial collapse on steroids. By the way when the Bush administration sought to eliminate the weakest portions of the two weak bills, in January 2005, the Democrats outvoted them to allow the fledgling crisis to grow beyond control.
H. The faulty assumption that the problem with Americans’ health and the present health care system is caused by people NOT having health insurance.
1) American physicians uniformly state that the problem actually lies with not being able to get health care to patients. For example, in the past doctors could give free care to the poor; or accept payment in kind from farm patients (over time eggs, vegetables, meat, etc.) but not this is forbidden in most cases. If a person of Medicare age is to be treated, all the paperwork must be filled out regardless and the Medicare laws must be followed even if they don’t apply or even interfere with doctor charity.
2) Ex health-educator Rajjpuut, in his 26 blog series “A Far Better Health Care Alternative” has listed 44 factors that are far more important than health insurance:
For example . . .
a) his #1 factor is elimination of the FDA totally, a corrupt government agency which rains pain, suffering and death upon American patients as described in his 16 Anti-FDA blog series
b) 42 other factors Rajjpuut mentions are not considered by Obamacare at all
c) The only factor Rajjpuut and Obamacare did agree upon is “infant mortality.”
However, Obamacare treats this factor as totally a problem with lack of health care or insufficient health care . . . Rajjpuut names 14 factors (health care is NOT mentioned but the fact that modern American women lead the world in smoking, drinking, using drugs, obesity, etc. definitely are crucial) that contribute and then describes a cluster of social factors that trace the history of the problem to the breakdown in the American family (predominance of unwed mothers; predominance of single-parent families; predominance of families with no husband ever in attendance to help the mother; predominance of families without a second parent living below the poverty line; etc. which all arose as the altogether laudable women’s movement was taken over and radicalized by the feminist movement. In making his analysis, of the historical deterioration of the American family as the root cause of high infant mortality. Problems that didn’t exist in 1960 when America had one of the highest ranked health care systems in the world and infant mortality and life expectancy were the envy of most of the world suddenly became real and huge problems as America’s women changed their perspectives egged on by unenlightened radical feminism.
Rajjpuut also debunked one of Obama’s crucial factors (America’s comparatively low life expectancy) and showed that the two factors (infant mortality and low life expectancy) because of the way the statistics are misused are really the same factor looked at twice . . . the implication is that when America solves its infant mortality crisis, life expectancy will jump markedly.
3) Rajjpuut’s series showed that patients needed to be educated in preventive health; that health education at every turn was a key answer; and that the CDC should be much more involved (and much more well funded) in America’s health care prevention, health education and motivational needs.
4) Rajjpuut's creation of the brand new NHF position and its purpose is totally overlooked by Obamacare. So virtually every single one of Obama's "cost-cutting" methods will not cut costs but only cut services and cost lives.
Ya'all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut