Health Care Passed

[cjbcpa]

Well, all the vulgarity aside (not sure that's an intelligent way to make a point) this really has me troubled.

We already have a government and entitlement programs that we can't afford and now we've gone ahead and put 16% of the nations economy under government oversight. We also nationalized the student loan system at the same time in case you missed that in the midst of all the noise (their oversight of the home mortgage industry has been a real comfort these last years).

We're expanding the medicare/medicaid rolls while partially paying for it by reducing the amount we pay the very same providers we will count on to deliver it. Oh, and we're going to reduce waste to help pay for it too. There's a winning combination that only the central government could conjure up. And I haven't even mentioned higher taxes yet. Doesn't anyone find it a perverse notion that Medicare/Medicaid are so large that this plan uses reductions in reimbursements to fund nearly half a trillion dollars of this?

Health care for all is a great aspiration, but why stop there. Now that we've made it, and a college education an entitlement, how about food, clothing and shelter. There must be something left we haven't taxed yet to pay for it.

I fall squarely in the Libertarian camp so I'm disgusted with both our political parties. Their both equal opportunity offenders in my view. Time for a constitutional convention.