"Optional" National Health Care plan

I’m going to deviate a bit from what I planned to enter on this blog right now, but it is related.

The National Health Care ‘option’.

Only an option.

If you were never told, and don’t know – find a person in their 80’s or 90’s and ask.

Income tax was sold to my Grandparents as being TOTALLY temporary.

Social Security was sold to my parents as being fully, and completely voluntary.

Temporary, and voluntary – yea right!

In my own life – I fully recall being told that seat belts would ALWAYS be voluntary. We were told it could never be anything else, because no law could force people to protect themselves.

THAT, we were told – would be unconstitutional!

Then of course it was a public safety issue “for our own good’, (since us simpletons in the public are way too stupid to make decisions) but it could NEVER be the sole reason for being pulled over and ticketed.

THAT, we were told – would be unconstitutional!

See any correlations?

Now of course – the ‘option’ of National Health Care is a VERY noble cause. I too feel sorry for all the folks that can not obtain insurance.

On the other hand – I have NO sympathy for those that choose to be un-insured, or under-insured, when they clearly have the where-with-all to have it.

Pre-existing Conditions. At least where I live, I have been told my entire life, that as long as I am covered by some company, that I can change companies, and pre-existing conditions are covered. Period. Now I heard today repeatedly, about the woman with no insurance, that has no insurance, and gets pregnant, and can not get it covered.

Why SHOULD she?

Why should she be allowed to [pay zero premium, (while I pay mine every month) then when there is a need – run out and get coverage? Can I wait till I am dead to buy life insurance?????????????? Great concept.

“Only an option”.

Imagine, you have a company with a single location (remember Insurance companies can NOT sell outside the state they are in; ergo one location).

Now you suddenly have competition, that CAN operate in any state. Plus, they have no stockholders to answer too. Plus they have an unlimited supply of funds, allowing the3m to undercut your prices (remember the whole “force them to compete?).

Simple. Soon you are bankrupt, gone, out of business.

Only ‘option’ left is the ‘other guys’ (who is the Government).

Well but hey – those greedy, scum sucking, Dick Dastardly, despots are making BILLIONS in profits. They can afford to trim a bit.

Ummmmm – no wait. Look at their financial statements (publicly traded companies), and you will see they are making billions, but on an INVERSTMENT of 10’s or even hundreds of billions!

So lets think.

I invest in a business. There is risk. A LOT of risk. There is effort to watch them, read the financial statements, stay up on any lawsuits against them, etc, etc.

Say I am earning about 8% on my investment (which is about the current average).

They could go bust, and I lose my entire investment.

I could sell it, and stick it in a regular bank savings account at about 1 ½ to 2%.

Lower earnings, but ZERO risk, and zero effort. Now add in the money I could be earning in the time I used to spend watching my investment (say at a place where I say “Do you want fries with that?”).

Sell it.

In short, this so-called ‘option’ will inevitably become the ONLY option.

Now factor in the genius’s running Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, US Post Office , Am-Track, and on and on.

The so-called ‘experts’ that said Agent Orange was totally safe to humans; Mind control was safe; The men in Tuskegee were being helped; saccharin is safer than sugar; decaf is safer the regular; we will have an Ice Age by 1980; 55 will solve the energy crunch and save lives.

Wake up folks!