Life's little lesson's

Let's be clear about one thing, the reason why the healthcare system is they way it is now, is because of government. Democrats want to fix the health care system with...get ready for it...more government.

Medicare, Medicaid and VA hospitals are all government creations. We already have a quasi-national healthcare system!

QUIZ TIME:

Question: What costs more, paying for a doctor, or buying a new DVD.

Answer: Buying a DVD

People don't understand that the co-pay for doctors appointment is typically just $20, a new DVD runs about $24 (Blu-Ray is the BEST).

Forcing people to be on a government-run health care system would make everyone pay for everyone else's problems.

What is the definition of "insurance?"

"The act, system, or business of insuring property, life, one's person, etc., against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies, as fire, accident, death, disablement, or the like, in consideration of a payment proportionate to the risk involved."

The point of insurance is to protect against a disaster, not provide for daily use.

Home-owners insurance is to protect against your home catching fire and burning to the ground. Car insurance is to protect you in case you get in a wreck.

Forcing everyone to buy government run healthcare is like making people with car insurance pay for gas, oil and tires of everyone who drives. It just doesn't make sense.

The system would be overloaded with people for simple ailments; headaches, cough, sneezes. Whatever, get over it.

Because of the overload, some Healthcare Czar will start to make decisions of who to actually allow access to medical providers. I do not want a government official in the way of my healthcare.

I was RipStik-ing (if you don't know what a RipStik is, you should probably check one out) over Spring Break, and I had a major wipe out in which I flew into a mulch-laden rose garden. I had thorns, splinters, dirt, rocks and gravel in me.

I would most likely be denied a claim to see a doctor because it wasn't severe enough. In their defense it, it wasn't. But, no one was on campus and I didn't have anyone to pull out the thorns and help disinfect my wounds, so I went to the doctor. For about $20, I was able to pay for three weeks of care, WITHOUT INSURANCE.

Long story short, cheap and easy access to healthcare is available. That's the joy of a free market system. I can shop around.

Prior to 1965, the year Medicare and Medicaid became a government hand-me-out; healthcare costs never exceeded six percent of U.S. GDP. After Democrat LBJ enforced the two atrocious plans, medical costs began to rise.

Today, healthcare is at 20 percent of GDP.

The reason?

We don't shop around; therefore, healthcare providers charge whatever they want.

Just because we're paying less out-of-pocket, doesn't mean prices are getting any cheaper. Currently, an individual pays approximately three percent of a total hospital bill. Third parties (insurance, employer or the government) pay the other 97 percent.

According to the National Center for Policy Analysis, only 35 percent of Medicare or Medicaid spending leads to actual care. The other 65 percent allows for prices to keep going up.

Now, let's examine plastic surgery.

For the most part, plastic surgery is an out-of-pocket expense which health insurance does not cover. Between 1990 and 2005, cosmetic surgery prices have gone up about 15 percent compared to Consumer Price Index.

Healthcare prices have gone up more than 80 percent in comparison to the CPI.

Doctors can perform plastic surgery for much less because they don't have to pay for all the red-tape that comes with insurance companies, hospitals and unnecessary staff.

We can use Medicare (which currently has about 41 million people 65 years old, or older) and Medicaid (which serves more than 50 million poor people) to show us just how a government-run healthcare program will force everyone on to their plans.

With the government run program, costs will sky-rocket, leading to fewer and fewer private-sector insurance providers. This is proven by the numerous insurance companies which folded during the first five years of Medicare and Medicaid’s existence.

With fewer and fewer private-sector providers, coupled with the inevitable rise in healthcare costs, employer-based healthcare will have no option to go for the cheapest insurance company, which would be the government run program.

Surprise!

The government doesn’t have to play by the same rules as a private sector company does. Why does the government need to worry about posting a profit to pay its employees, utilities or taxes when we would foot that bill? (Minus the taxes, the government can’t pay its self back…oh wait, yes it can/did…)

Once the government has control of your healthcare, they will start to deny benefits to help cut costs due to the high costs of healthcare and the flooding of the system.

Routine operations now become a matter of bureaucratic decision making of whether or not you're "worth the cost" to the government.

This healthcare being assembled in congress today CAN NOT be passed. It will lead to higher costs, less jobs (currently 14.6 million people are employed by the health care industry), and the government in control of your life.

As this healthcare reform goes, so goes the Democrats. And neither are doing to well.

Flag You.

Well folks, consider it a small victory.

Due to overwhelming support of millions of Americans flooding the White House servers, the WH's "flag" program has be dropped from their website.

The program was created to become a way for liberals to turn in, list and record all those opposed to Obama's crazy plans.

After many news organizations, bloggers, patriots and normal citizens sent numerous emails and flagged themselves in order to show Obama that his scare tactics and monitoring programs would not be tolerated.

Sources: Politico

...Caught in Their Own Lies...

So, while all these town halls meetings go on, the Right is consistently bombarded with labels of "Anti-American," "Racists," "Hired Hands of the Insurance Companies..." the list goes on and on...

But yet, the media has yet to find any facts, truth or credibility to Obama's false accusations.

Take a look at this clip. See there is at least one doctor who wants this awful healthcare system to pass right?

Wrong.

Meet Roxana Mayer, she introduced herself in the previous clip as a General Practitioner in Texas; however, the Texas Medical Board has no such name registered as a licensed medical provider.

As soon as the media found out about this, they were quick to silently change this "mistake". Now, if I were to go to my local town hall meeting and say I, as a Republican, am a Doctor and I oppose Obama's plan (like a vast majority of doctors), the media would be ALLLLLL over me.

What about Roxana?

Silence.

Turns out, how strange, that Roxana was also a Obama Delegate...

How strange.

Sources: Obama, Youtube

Future.

CN4AM Readers,

Once again, I apologize for the lack of posts on the website. I have been out of town and without a computer (shocking in today's world) for the last two weeks.

I am currently catching up on the last few weeks worth of news, happenings, emails and comments. I will resume posting on CN4AM as soon as I can.

Please, stay tuned. After being around many misinformed people, I understand how important it is to know what is going on in the world around you.

-Matt

Examples of Universal Health Care Failure

Sweden, one of the Obama Administration's example of a health care system, is trying to stop it's failed programs.

Anders Borg has a message for those who look to government to take over health care, rescue the financial system and run troubled corporations: I have seen the future-and it doesn't work.

As the finance minister of Sweden, Borg is the chief financial officer of a country long known as a walking billboard for a social welfare state. In Borg's view, the 1970s and 1980s were lost decades for Sweden. Left-leaning politicians pushed government spending, excluding investment outlays, from 22% of gross domestic products in 1970 to 30% in 1980. Real growth fell from an average of 4.4% annually in the 1960s to 2.4% in the 1970s and remained low for the next two decades.

What is Borg doing for "the future?"

Cut Taxes, Cap Spending and and Privatize Health Care, get rid of wealth taxes and cut corporate taxes.

The Swedes ventured down that Utopian road...it was nothing but a dead end. They are now trying to back up and make the right turn to help their economy, health care and people.

Sources: Forbes

Told You So

Just I stated on Wednesday after Obama's failed attempt to soothe over the American people about his rushed and tax-heavy health care plan, Obama's approval rating has fallen below 50 percent.

According to a Rasmussen Report for July 24th, Obama's overall approval ratings dropped to 49 percent, while is total disapproval ratings rose to 51 percent.

For those of you who believe that Rasmussen Reports is a conservative-biased group, lets not forget that Rasmussen was the most accurate polling agency to predict both the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections.

This should be some troubling news for Obama and the Democrats. As time moves on, it is becoming harder and harder to blame things on the past administration. The American public is finally starting to realize that it was the Democratic majority in 2006 that started leading us down this road.

I am predicting this now, the 2010 mid-term elections will make congress more balanced, as well as, the 2012 presidential election will go in the way of the Republicans.

Sources: Rasmussen Reports

The Dangers of Raisng Minimum Wage

Tomorrow, the minimum wage will rise from $6.55 an hour, to $7.25 an hour.

Let's rethink this.

If we want the three big car companies to come out of bankruptcy, why don't we just tell them to raise their prices? With prices raised, they would make a higher profit margin off of each sale, allowing them to hire more people.

But this is not the case.

Increased prices cut profit margins which, obviously, reduce jobs.

In a time where our economy is sinking faster than a lead ball in a pool, raising minimum wage is the last thing we want to do.

Sure, those employees left will see an 11 percent increase; however, there will be a steep drop off in employment.

Economists predict that more than 400,000 jobs will be lost among teenagers (the majority of minimum wage employees) alone. I mean, if you can pay higher wages, without losing reducing employment, why would the minimum wage only be $7.25 an hour? Why not $15 an hour, or even $100 an hour?

The truth is, business can not print money like the government can. In order to pay for this minimum wage increase, is to cut jobs, cut benefits or raise prices (which would reduce income).

The Economic Policy Institute (a liberal creation) stated that an increase in the minimum wage "would not only benefit low income working families, but it would also provide a boost to consumer spending and the broader economy."

Yea, right.

So, as Michigan enjoys the nation's highest unemployment rate at 15 percent, Michigan Democrats are also proposing to increase the state minimum wage from $7.40 an hour to $10 an hour.

If that passes, Michigan will see unemployment rates run into the 25 to 30 percent range.

Sources: Economic Policy Institute, the Sand Mountain Reporter, the Detroit News