Have you noticed a repeating pattern that is emerging with this Administration and Congress? Create the sense of a nation-wide crises with alarmist and misleading information, silence any dissenting voices (the media has been very cooperative on this front), and whaa-laa….you have created out of thin air “justification” for the government to take over another aspect of private, free-market industry.

For the purposes of this article, let’s address the misinformation being reported about a “national crisis” in health care with an estimated 48 million uninsured. This is grossly falsifying the actual statistics, with intent to mislead the people of this country to accept this program. This figure stems from the U S Census Bureau report in 2007. What this figure does NOT represent are American citizens who are in need of health care or health insurance.

·         10-12 million are illegal aliens. These people should not be in this country in the first place, and certainly should not be afforded the benefits of those who are citizens of the United States.

·         10-12 million have households with income of more than $75,000 and are able to purchase health insurance, but choose not to.

·         14 million are eligible for Medicaid or State Children’s Health Program, but have not yet enrolled.

·         Also note that 45% of the “uninsured” will be insured again within 4 months, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

·         This leaves us with perhaps 4% of the country who would have legitimate need of health care. However, there are other solutions that could be offered, using the private sector.

There is no health insurance/care crisis in this country as the President is attempting to claim. By trying to frame this government take-over of the health care industry as a National crisis, as he did with the mortgage, banking and auto industries, he and Congress are using fabricated rhetoric to create a crisis in the minds of the American people.

Don’t be deceived - government health insurance/care is neither free nor fiscally prudent. A look at European models tells the story. France’s “free” health care is paid for by 13.55% payroll tax, 5.25% income tax plus other taxes on tobacco, alcohol and drug company revenues, yet is still running a $15.6 billion deficit. The CATO Institute reports that the United Kingdom’s NHS costs the average family of four $1,155 American per month. One can obtain good private health insurance for much less than this. It is a well known fact that where socialized medicine has been implemented, the quality and availability of health care has diminished greatly. 

Projections for a government health system (or “public option” as it is now being called) are running at $1 Trillion+ over the next 10 years. If we look at past and current history, this too will prove to be grossly underestimated.  

Taking the Medicaid Special Hospital Subsidy example above, actual costs ballooned to $11 billion in only 5 years. According to their projections, it should have taken 100+ years to reach that number!

The President claims that those who do not want to enroll in this new government system don’t have to. However, this statement is deceptive, at best. President Obama publicly stated (on tape) in 2003 that he favors a single-payer, universal health care system. Kathleen Sebelius, Health & Human Services Secretary stated in May of 2009 that “public insurance was needed and healthy to compete with private industry.” Representative Jan Schakowsky stated in April of this year, before a cheering crowd of her peers, “The public option will put private industry out of business and lead to single-payer. The man was right.” The “public plan” is designed to back-door the single-payer system, being introduced incrementally so as not to “frighten” the American people about the safety of their current health care system. 

With every encroachment of government into the public life, freedoms, liberties and even “rights” are already eroding. Did you ever think you’d see a President of the United States firing the CEO of a private company? If  you revere and treasure the liberties and free market system that a Republic such as ours fosters, I hope you will act upon your civic duty and do all you can to persuade your representatives to come to their senses and bring us back to the foundational principles that has made this country great.

Thomas Jefferson’s words seem like timely admonishions for all of us: “All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”

Unlike the real God, President Obama lacks the qualities of the True God….i.e. omnicience and omnipotence. Alas, he is just one more earthly god (also known as “idols”) who is unable to deliver on .what man is looking for. Amidst all of the promised “change,”  “hope” is woefully elusive.