National Twelve Step Program Needed
America's Newest Addiction
America is about to take her first “hit” of a very dangerous, addictive, opiate drug called “socialized medicine”. Our President and the liberal left Democrat majority have started this nation on a pathway to addiction and Obamacare is the gateway drug. We are no longer “unique” as a nation. Tomorrow, when President Obama signs the Health Insurance Reform legislation into law, we will join the likes of other addict nations such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Russia. Instead of being a unique nation in world – a nation “Of the People, by the People, and for the People” - we will join the ranks of the “governed nations”; a nation of lemmings looking to our government for answers that it simply cannot supply.
We have been told time and time again by Pres. Obama, Sen. Reid, and Speaker Pelosi that this legislation is about insuring the 30-40 million uninsured Americans. But, is that what this legislation is truly about? To quote House Minority Leader John Boehner, “HELL NO!” Really people, stop and think about it. We could have done exactly that for a heck of a lot less than what this legislation is costing us and the generations to come. Instead, we have legislation that, by this administration’s own estimates, will be just $60 billion short of $1 Trillion dollars; and that is with collecting taxes for 10 years but paying benefits for only 6 years. Heck, we could have deposited $1 million dollars in a medical savings account for each of these 30-40 million so-called uninsured Americans at a total cost of $40 million dollars and saved ourselves $900 billion dollars as a result! (Of course I’m not advocating that, but I think you get my point) So, how can anyone claim this is about insuring the uninsured?
Well, you ask, if it’s not about insuring the uninsured then exactly what is this legislation all about? Look no further than other countries with socialized medicine to find that out. Socialized medicine has never delivered the health care utopia its proponents claim. What it does deliver is an entire nation of people that are dependent on the government to meet their needs. Once a government has its citizens dependent on it to deliver their basic needs, then the party that promises more and more benefits will get more and more power – no matter what the cost in terms of tax dollars or individual freedoms for future generations.
No, this is not about the health care needs of the American people. This is about the political power needs of this President and his Democrat party. This legislation is the opiate that will lead to an addiction by the common citizen – like that of a child born to a cocaine addicted mother; not addicted by choice, but addicted nonetheless.
However, it is not just the people that will be addicted. The politicians will be addicted as well. To stay in power they will have to give the appearance of giving more and more to the people. Like an addict, they will know that what they are doing is destructive to the body of America. But they will not be able to stop. They will occasionally make an effort to curtail their addiction, they will make impassioned promises, they will plead for trust, and they may even kick-the-habit for a time. But it won’t be long before they are back on the “stuff” again.
Some of you are reading this with disbelief – you are thinking to yourself that I must be wrong. Well, I’m not wrong… and I can prove it.
I hold up to you as proof our Medicare system – the proverbial “third rail” of the federal political system. Everyone knows it’s bankrupt. Everyone knows the money is simply not there to sustain it. Everyone knows… the people who currently receive its benefits, those who will one day receive its benefits, and the government that administrates it benefits. Yet no one is willing to change it. Why – because the beneficiaries NEED it and the politicians NEED it. Is this not the behavior of an addict? We can say same the same for Social Security.
This is not an American phenomenon either. My wife and I had visitors from Canada this summer. It was a great opportunity for me to ask them how they liked their socialized medicine. I was particularly interested in speaking with them because I knew the wife needed gallbladder surgery, a routine surgery that is normally performed here on an outpatient basis and usually within a week of having a diagnosis. As for her, she waited in agony for well over a year before the surgery was performed.
So I asked her and her husband, “How do you like your Canadian Socialized Medicine.” Their response stunned me, “We love it – we would not want to do without it.”
So I dug deeper asking the woman, “Didn’t you have to wait a very long time for your gallbladder surgery?” Her response, “Well, not so long really.” Now, I know through family members that she waited nearly 18 months to have her operation and that she was in agony during that time.
I pressed on, “What about doctors and nurses. Are there enough to go around or are they leaving the field?” Their reply, “More and more are leaving the field of medicine. There is a real shortage of doctors and nurses in Canada.”
I could not believe it. These were seemingly rational people giving me completely irrational responses:
- I had to wait 18 months for surgery to stop my pain and agony – but that was not too long
- There are not enough trained people in the field of medicine – and more and more doctors and nurses are leaving the profession
- I love the system and could not do without it.
This lines up with the psychology of a drug addict:
- I know I’m in physical, psychological, and spiritual agony and I know this drug is causing it
- I know the cost of this drug is preventing me from caring properly for myself and my family
- I love this drug and could not do without it.
We look with compassion on the drug addict and try to find them help – and many do get help and learn to live a “clean” life. But, where is the Twelve Step Program for a nation state? Where is the Twelve Step Program for a people so addicted to their government entitlement programs that they are willing to say, “Oh, I only had to wait in pain and agony for 18 months before I got the surgery I needed, but that’s alright”? Where’s the Twelve Step Program for the political party willing to sacrifice the future of our children for their “power fix” today.
America is about to takes her first “hit” of a very dangerous, addictive, opiate called “socialized medicine” – and the drug pushers reside in the Executive and Legislative Branches of our government.
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