ObamaCare: So good, Congress doesn't have to use it...

...and if YOU don't, you'll be penalized!

I'm afraid that I'll have better things to do than listen to President Oprompter try to impress the electorate again with his flowery rhetoric. With the revelation that he has no clue what's in any of the three bills that make up ObamaCare, I feel reassured that he's talking out of his ass. I'm tired of being farted on by this president, and the rest of the electorate, who seems to love the smell of methane in the morning, needs to get tired along with me. One of my blogger friends, The Black Sphere, had the privilege of attending a town hall hosted by the son of the late and former Missouri governor, Mel Carnahan, Russ (D-MO), where he tried to persuade Missourians to accept the so-called benefits of ObamaCare. The Black Sphere, né Kevin Jackson, asked the congressman “If it’s so good, why doesn’t Congress have to be on it?” To which, Congressman Carnahan refused to answer.

Sister Toldjah talks about how Senate Democrats reacted to an amendment made by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), mandating members of Congress and their staffs, to enroll in whatever healthcare program Congress comes up with. The amendment passed in committee, with a majority of Democrats voting "nay," but will likely be stripped in the conference between the House and the Senate. That says a whole lot about the bill writers in Congress. But that doesn't faze our dear friend, Zandar, who unleashes on Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal, for not picking up the slack after Hurricane Katrina (even though he was just a mere congressman then...no hatred directed at Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagin however...), and for offering subsidies to the insurance companies...or something.

Governor Jindal served as Louisiana's director of Health and Hospitals, where he rescued Louisiana's Medicaid program from bankruptcy, caused childhood immunizations to increase, allowing Louisiana to rank third best nationally in health care screenings for children, and instituted new and expanded services for elderly and disabled persons were offered. Those seemed to be the cornerstone of his piece in the Wall Street Journal, real reform, instead of throwing out the baby with the bathwater, that ObamaCare suggests we do. Admittedly, I am not to keen on economics, but I do know that the government has the ability to undercut the profits of the private industry. The government has an endless supply of taxpayer funds to support whatever investments, good or bad, it so chooses. That advantage isn't given to private insurance companies, who must adhere to the prices the government sets OR suffer severe profit loss to compete with the government. Let me explain this a little further...

Military members have access to the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), where servicemembers are able to buy goods and services tax-free and often at cheaper rates than Wal-Mart. In my experience in the Air Force, I would often shop at the shopettes or the Base Exchanges (BX), because I could get a bigger bang for my buck. Gasoline is usually cheaper on base, and I took full advantage of it. If a store like Wal-Mart had to directly compete with AAFES, it couldn't because its profit margins would decrease. Another example is healthcare that is given to military members, where they do pay a small amount for health insurance, and they receive treatments and their prescriptions at no cost. But, I challenge you to find a military member who says good things about military physicians, or better yet, the military healthcare system at all.

As mentioned in a previous blogpost, the ObamaCare theory is based on the Massachussetts' state-run healthcare system, which is being forced to dump 30,000 immigrants from its healthcare rolls, because of the state's growing deficit. And there is talk that healthcare insurance will be mandatory, as it is in MA, forcing the poor and lower middle-class to pay penalties in the range of 2.5%. A concept that has a blogger at the DailyKos sitting a little uneasy. That should give a few ObamaCare apologists pause, but I'm not holding my breath on that. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for affordable healthcare, but not ObamaCare...

So Democrats in Congress have upset Dear Leader...they were supposed to be taken in by his flowery language too! PSYCHE! The Obamanian presidential poker chips are all in, ObamaCare fails, so does his presidency. He said it himself!

Have a great day...