Barack Obama's Finished

With the Democratic primary still a long way off, Barack Obama made a critical mistake today: He announced how he was going to pay for Universal Health Care. He plans on taxing the wealthy. While that may not do much for your outrage factor, what he didn't tell you, but experts will, is that it will cost the Federal government an additional $50-$65 BILLION A YEAR.

With the Federal deficit at an all time high, we simply cannot afford additional, unnecessary expenses. If someone wants health insurance, get a job that gives that as a benefit or pay for your own insurance. There are states that also have their own version of "universal health care" on a sliding scale. It's really as simple as that.

Democrats have long held Bush's feet to the fire over the nation's debt, and it's only fair that they get their fair shake of a gut check. You can't hold Bush to one standard and yourself to another.

His package would prohibit insurance companies from refusing coverage because of pre-existing conditions. It would also create a National Health Insurance Exchange to monitor insurance companies and limit their profits.

So if someone has cancer, insurance companies will be forced to cover this person for their treatment. I don't know how much you folks know about cancer treatment, but my friend who just got over a bout with cancer, his total tab for the treatments was $2.5 million. Insurance companies would be forced to eat that cost. That's how businesses go out of business. People will lose their job, massive layoffs will happen, and then it will get ugly. What happens if a company loses money in a particular fiscal year or quarter? Does Barack have a plan to bail these companies out with Federal funds? Say a company has a bad quarter and loses $300 million, will Barack cut them a check because he's legally limiting their profits? You can bet that insurance companies will sue the hell out of him for that.

Barack also wants to "limit the profits of insurance companies". What the hell? That's not how capitalism works Barack.

Obama's first promise as a presidential candidate was that he would sign a universal health care plan into law by the end of his firm term in the White House. But there is some dispute over whether his plan would provide universal care -- it's aimed at lowering costs so all Americans can afford insurance, but does not guarantee everyone would buy it.

"It's not totally clear that it would result in universal coverage," said Ron Pollack, executive director of the advocacy group Families USA. He praised Obama and other leading Democratic candidates for focusing on improving health care.

"What makes it a top national priority now is not simply a sense of sympathy for people who are uninsured but a sense of fear that the coverage that used to be taken for granted can no longer be taken for granted," he said.

Obama aides said they believe that everyone would buy health insurance if it were affordable enough, achieving universal care. If some Americans are still uninsured after a few years into the plan, Obama would reconsider how to get to 100 percent, the advisers said.

So if the plan doesn't work as he "envisions", he'll raise taxes AGAIN to make sure that he can stick this on his resume.

This is America. You work hard, play by the rules, and ANYONE can strike it rich. It's not fair for someone to try to take from you what you legally earned. That's communism, not capitalism. Do you think that Barack's rich Hollywood friends are going to enjoy the severely hiked tax rate?

The government needs to be run like a business, not a charity. Otherwise, we'll start facing problems like the one I'm about to write about.

Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com