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Well Duh!

Americans are evenly divided over the idea of making free health care available to every one in the country, but opposition grows dramatically when their own health insurance is involved.

Forty-two percent (42%) of Americans say every one in the United States should have free health care. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 44% disagree.

However, by a two-to-one margin (60% to 27%), Americans reject free health care for all if it means changing their own coverage and joining a program administered by the government. Many surveys, conducted over many years have found a similar unwillingness to support any program that requires a change in coverage. Last December, 58% opposed any kind of government-controlled health plan if it meant they had to change their own insurance coverage.

Most people are happy with the health care they earn.  Everyone would be happier than heck if everyone who doesn’t have coverage were able to get it.  Unfortunately there isn’t a plan in Washington that would do that without taking away our health care that we work for or making us pay for people that are too lazy to earn it themselves.

Neither one of those options are acceptable.  Why should we get crappy health care because a bunch of illegal immigrants or people too lazy to hold down a job?  But this is what Congress is going to do if we let them.  It’s funny because during the campaign Obama was running a commercial saying that he was going to find a middle-ground.  He’s not talking about that anymore.  Right now he and the other radicals in Congress are working full-bore at tearing down the best health care system in the world.

One has to wonder why they are so desperate to screw things up.  Over the weekend Rob ran a story about Obama was claiming that they’d never fix the federal budget until we fix health care. 

The fact is that publicly funded health care systems are broke.  Medicare and Medicare and SCHIP expenses are out of control.  So the political class wants to force the rest of the public (who generally are healthy) into one all-encompassing system so that everyone’s in the same boat. 

Now if they want to raise taxes for Medicare there’s a lot of resistance.  The beneficiaries won’t or can’t pay for much of their own coverage.  But if the entire all-encompassing system needs money they can mute the protests because they’re raising “YOUR” premiums because of “YOUR” insurance. 

It’s not that those of us working aren’t paying through the nose for Medicare insurance.  A large part of your Social Security tax goes just for Medicare.  Not only that but the government underpays medical providers so that they are forced to raise their prices when you go to the doctor.  In effect, that’s an hefty tax for using health care services.  (And what is the justification for taxing people on medical services?)

You can translate the phrase health care reform to really mean a massive recurring tax increase on those few that are still productive. 

The people don’t want it, but the politicians don’t care.  We need a whole new slate of leaders.