The Reality of Government Healthcare Legislation

Many arguments are being made by regular Americans who are either in support or opposition to current proposed health-care legislation. The simple fact is that the subject is the federal government. Those in support of the federal government enacting health-care reform will explain that a specific measure in a proposed health-care plan would provide correction for a former (historical) government-initiated benefit.

That previous government-initiated benefit that is being referred to is Medicare. Medicare was enacted, by a majority of the vote of course, in 1968. During the years from 1968 to 2009, many hard-working, intelligent people paid into this program expecting to receive the benefits they are entitled to. In that time frame, most people would never look forward to the date that taxes had to be filed. In America, land of the free, that date is April 15th of every year. Mid-spring, the season most people enjoy the most. Employment rose and fell during those years since 1968. The federal government was and is always concerned with employment. Not because people needed the work, but because our government needed the taxes from those who worked. Our federal government only needs taxes to provide for civil duties and the defence of the nation.

Ben Franklin, whom most Americans believe to be a very intelligent historical person of conviction (truth), testified in the British Parliament in 1766. His testimony is very revealing. His words, stated plainly, from so long ago still resound in the hearts and minds of all Americans. The Stamp Act was the first direct tax on the American colonies by Great Britain and preceded the American Revolution. Given the historical perspective of the human condition of Americans (the colonists as they were called then) over 200 years ago and the testimony Ben Franklin presented, is it no wonder that the current administration is simply ignoring the American people?

Americans, when thinking of their own lives, know that history does repeat itself when lessons are not learned. Americans, those who believe in the fundamental right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as provided by the simple, understandable words of our Constitution, know that the current federal government has invaded every aspect of our lives as a society. Too many Americans, however, are just now learning how deeply our government has entrenched itself in the lives of free people. Those Americans, who work very hard for the little monetary gains they receive, are realizing this current administration is truly discussing the last right we have as free people; the right to life.

Our lives are not an item such as a stamp. A stamp is representative of a duty that must be paid to a federal government, regardless of how that government intends to provide for all people. Life is not a stamp. Yet the national debate between ordinary people has become an issue as to who will receive the benefits, and how those benefits will be funded and then distributed. Too many Americans have been focused on facts and statistics that have been presented by the current administrators of our federal government. Those Americans are ignoring reality. Reality is clear in the stories of those whom Medicare allowed to die, or Medicare ignored their needs.

There are too many Americans who use the caveat that they are speaking “for the greater good”. They are dismissing these stories as just being personal experience. Personal experience therefore, is of no consequence in this debate unless it serves the ideological intention – this time, it’s a Democratically-led administration. Personal experience is being paraded by that ideology, yet a true American with personal experience is dismissed as invalid.

Other important aspects, while healthcare reform is being debated are also ignored. America is bleeding money and hasn’t stopped the flow. This bleeding began when Medicare was enacted. Many people did benefit, but many people died. Government statistics will never present that data to the American people. The bleeding continued, over decades and became profuse when the TARP legislation was passed. While healthcare reform is being debated, our money is being spent to help a little minnow reach the ocean simply to die. The ruling that allowed that was as recent as April 2009 when the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA could use cost-benefits-analysis when setting regulations regarding our environment. It was this ruling that directly led to the shut-off of the water to the San Joaquin valley.

There is certainly much more evidence regarding the federal government ignorance of reality. Our government has not been a government “by the people, for the people” in decades. The most severe impact historically was the enactment of the personal income tax in 1866. While for a noble effort, this tax was never allowed to “sunset”. Instead, it was made legal by an Amendment in 1913.

It should be evident to any clear-thinking, hard-working American that any government managed healthcare reform will fail. It will fail regardless of personal income or wealth. It will fail regardless of political ideological tendencies whether Democratic, Republican or Independent. It will fail the very people it is intended to help. The federal government, whether Democratic or Republican, has blinded itself to its own faults. Our governments only focus, from the time our government began to tax people on their hard work (their very time and energy), has been to fairly distribute that time to all Americans.

How then, in 2009, does any American truly believe that the federal government has the solution to any problem the federal government created, whether historically, for current times or for the future?

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