By Dr. Spencer Price
They’re called the Darwin Awards – annual recognition bestowed upon those among us who perform acts of supreme stupidity and who, in so doing, often pay the ultimate price. An example of a classic Darwin Award winner is the crook who, during a robbery, aimed a gun at an innocent person and pulled the trigger. When the gun failed to discharge, the would-be robber turned the gun around, looked down the barrel, and pulled the trigger again. Unfortunately for him, this time the gun fired, sending the criminal to an early grave and earning him a Darwin Award.
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I was unaware that if your job offered you a health care option, you were allowed to opt out of it, in favor of allowing the taxpayers to foot the bill for you.
No wonder I'm just a stupid average taxpaying citizen, I have never learned how to play the system and get something I wasn't entitled to.
I really feel stupid now.
If we go to universal health care, will that not increase our taxes and aren't we essentially still in the same boat?
I firmly believe that if I work an honest 40 hrs a week, I should be able to financially support my family. I understand that I wont be driving a BMW but come on now...the people who write the rules are not very honest (and I am not referring to our government).
I guess I've either been very lucky, or I just know how to take care of myself.
When I was out of work, I either found another job, any job, to tide myself over, or I sold off my stuff to pay my way.
I have never even collected unemployment and I'm in my 50's now.
Of course, I "grew up hard" and never really had anyone to pick me up and dust me off and hug me when I fell down, even as a child. In a case like that, you learn who to depend on. And that's your own self.
I suppose that's why all this stuff with the government doesn't really get me in such an uproar. No matter what happens, I know what I am capable of and I am pretty secure in knowing that I'm going to make it, no matter what happens.
for this goverment health care that
Obbummer wants you to have. They will
get it one way or the other. In your
Irs taxes if they have too....
Either the Medicare cuts will take effect or they will be postponed by a terrified Congress.
If they take effect, physicians' fees will be slashed 21 percent and hospital reimbursements for Medicare patients will be cut by $1.3 billion. Tens of thousands of doctors and thousands of healthcare institutions - hospitals, hospices, outpatient clinics and such - will refuse to treat Medicare patients.
Entire cities will be without one doctor in important specialties who will take care of the elderly on Medicare. Particularly in fields like G.I. care or arthritic and joint pain, doctors will simply refuse to accept the low reimbursement rates they are being offered and hospitals will refuse all but emergency care to Medicare patients. In effect, the elderly will experience a doctors' strike against Medicare patients.
Congress, faced with this massive revolt coming right on the verge of the election, may back down and postpone the cuts. Originally, doctor reimbursement rates were scheduled to drop on March 1 of this year, but Congress postponed it until the fall. Now the Democrats in Congress will face not only cuts in doctors' fees but in all forms of Medicare reimbursement - the so-called "market basket" of cuts programmed into Obamacare.
Congress, being Congress, will probably seek to postpone the cuts until after Election Day. But in doing so, they would expose the deficit reduction and cost containment features of Obama's bill for the fraud that they are. The news media headlines would blare that Congress just voted to add tens or hundreds of billions to the deficit and the big spending, high borrowing image of Congress will worsen. All pretense that Obamacare is not a reckless spending bill will be stripped away and we will be face to face with the reality that it will add hugely to the deficit.
All this will come at precisely the time that House and Senate Democrats are scrambling to rebut the attacks of their Republican challengers over these very issues. If Congress votes to postpone the Medicare cuts, as a former Secretary of HHS predicted to me, they will have to answer for their fiscal irresponsibility right before the election.
Either poison - the cuts or the deficit - will be enough to eradicate an entire generation of House and Senate Democrats.
And these cuts will take place against a backdrop of continuing increases in health insurance premiums, no expansion of coverage (it doesn't kick in until 2013), and no tangible benefit from the Obama bill.
This is the prospect the House and Senate Democrats who vote for Obamacare will face in the fall of 2010. This is the record they will have to defend.
Or, they could save their political lives and vote no!
Help them to make the decision!
Thank you.
Dick Morris