Obamacare Recap

Ok the recent ruling of the individual mandate portion of Obamacare (the one that would have required individuals to purchase healthcare or be fined or imprisoned) is a good start, though it will be challenged by the current "Statist-Scum" in Washington. One step at a time, I suppose.

Just to recap:

• It's unconstitutional - Not that this has been a very great concern for Washington for the past 35 years, but still, an important item.
• What's the latest count? 2,700 pages in length? And passed without having been read - What did Pelosi say? "We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it..." WTF? And how many drooling parasites are out there glassy eyed over the idea of "free" healthcare, that are in favor of a healthcare bill that they haven't read?
• Addresses very few of the root causes of high health care costs (most of which, ironically enough, were caused by government intervention to begin with).
• Requiring coverage of pre-existing conditions will effectively put insurance companies out of business in short order, leaving the government to "save" us by implementing a government controlled, single payer system. (ANYONE who thinks that requiring an insurance company to cover everyone regardless of pre-existing condition is a good idea, is either a complete moron, or an anti-capitalist socialist POS that for some delusional reason wants the federal government to control health care. But that's just my opinion...)
• We're already seeing detrimental effects of Obamacare, such as companies dropping coverage, coverage costs climbing in anticipation of the new regulations...the FDA is already considering dropping certain cancer drugs because of their cost (ignoring the fact that they have been very effective in breast cancer treatment)...
• Puts federal bureaucrats in charge of your health care decisions.
• More specifically, unelected officials are now in charge in writing the guidelines on how you get treated. And who are these people?
• First we have Obama appointed "Medicare Czar", Donald Berwick. He's called the British health care system a "seductress" (you know, the one that is bankrupt, and in which the British government is now trying to privatize portions of it to keep it afloat...oh, the irony), and has also written that the government should ration the "number of centers engaging" in "cardiac surgery", "neonatal intensive care" and "cancer care".
• Next we have the esteemed Ezekial Emanuel, the adviser to Obama on all things health care. He is really on top of things, having crafted a "complete lives" system that determines the "appropriate" portion of treatment a person gets depending on their age. To quote, "Individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years gets the most substantial chance [of receiving care], whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated."
• Oh, and the two of them recently kicked off a meeting at the White House with health care lobbyists to discuss the implementation of Obamacare...which was a closed door meeting (closed to the public, press).
• I could devote a whole article of on-the-record quotes from all the anti-capitalism, anti-Constitution, anti-American "Advisors" Obama has cozied up to...but that's another topic for another time..

People need to start thinking for themselves, and stop being the "useful idiots" that politicians want them to be. It's a simple choice, though for some may prove difficult. Personal responsibility and a government of, by, and for The People, or a Socialist Utopia of a large, Statist government that controls nearly all aspects of your life.