The Public Option

The President’s Health Care message is missing the vital issue.

Whether you are for or against a public option, one thing is crystal clear: No matter what bill is in the Congress or Senate, none of them address the costs of medicine. Sen. Baucus’ bill really doesn’t do anything except create a framework for more costly bureaucracy. Rep. Pelosi’s bill creates a monstrously complicated web of bureaucracies, a “best practices” panel filled with political appointees and no physicians, and the public option.

None of these bills address the issues of Tort reform, medication and device costs, or the costs of educating our doctors. Even if you want a public option, the costs associated with health care need to reformed. If you have a public option health care bill, the costs will not go down unless you reform those costs. It isn’t rocket science, it’s common sense.

Before we explore the public option as a nation, we need to make the tough choices to reduce the costs associated with health care. We need Tort reform, which, according to Pres. Obama, accounts for 25% of health care expenses. We need to reform the way medications and devices get approved, and extend the patent life of medications and devices. We need to control the mark up of medications the pharmacies can charge. We need to lower the costs of educating our doctors.

If we don’t reform these basic costs of health care, then the public option will fail. We will be in the position the British are: Dependent on foreign physicians to fill our physician shortage. Is that what we want for our children?

9-11 and our troops

As we debate health care, let's not overlook why we have the freeedom to debate. It's called America's Armed Forces.

Everyone knows today is 9-11. Eight years ago, we and the world were attacked by those who want to enslave women and behead men, in pursuit of some kind of crazy utopia eerily reminiscent of Charles Manson and Jim Jones. George Bush answered the call, and whether you agree or not with his methods, we have not had any terrorist attacks on American soil since.

But Nancy Pelosi and her ilk are already trying to undermine our commitment to win the war in Afghanistan. She is talking about not following Gen. McChrystal's recommendations for troop levels, and is fighting an increase in better vehicles and armor for our troops. She also doesn't want them to get paid as much. This is the same person who voted for an $8 billion high speed train from Hollywood to Las Vegas in the Porkulus Package for her actor friends convenience.

Our armed forces are the only people that are truly keeping us safe. Even after Pres. Obama's apology tour, the terrorists and their supporters are still trying to hurt us. Countries like Iran, who are ardent supporters of anti-American terrorism, are still trying to get nuclear weapons through their "peaceful" nuclear ambitions, and the Russians have promised to veto any sanctions against Iran for it's nuclear ambitions. Do you think smiling pretty and being charming is going to help us be secure? Do these people sound like people that want to be reasonable and try to get along with us?

So let's stand together with our troops, and send Rep. Pelosi, Sen. Baucus, Sen. Reid, and Rep. Murtha a note and tell them to increase the support our troops need, and to let the generals fight the war in Afghanistan, not the politicians.

Obama's Czars

Has anyone else noticed Pres. Obama's czars are either so radically "Lefty Looney" that they really don't represent any kind of reasonable view, or so corrupt that unless Pres. Obama hired them, they couldn't get a job? Why is that? Have you ever asked that?

I think I have the answer. We all know that Pres. Obama bought the White House. He spent close to a BILLION dollars to buy it, without public money. That means he is beholden to a LOT of different people, a lot of people who want some kind of payback. So he hires these clowns as a payoff for his purchase of the White House.

Rattner, the "Car Czar", who railroaded the bondholders out of their money to protect the union healthcare and jobs bank that bankrupted GM and Chysler, is under investigation for his involvement in Quadrangle, a money management venture that defrauded investors. Bondholders, by the way, weren't the big banks and other Wall Street goons that you heard about on the news. The bondholders really were retirees counting on th bond's interest to make their retirement doable. They are the ones hurt by Rattner and Pres. Obama. People like my friend Dan's dad, or my Uncle Scott, or a lot of the good people of my district I have talked to the last few weeks. Good folks, screwed by Pres. Obama's Car Czar.

Sen. Tom Daschle failed to report $100,000 on his taxes. Ooops, I forgot...

And the latest is Van Jones. I think that Pres. Obama appoints these people as a political payoff, then when the rest of us find out what kind of radical scoundrels they are, they quit. It's a cheap payoff for all the money they sent him.

Of course, after being indoctrinated for 20 years in Rev. Wright's church, Van Jones really doesn't sound so bad.