Health Care

This is an article I prepared for my blogsite prior the healthcare bill being enacted into law:



On the issue of Health Care Insurance - and I'd like to see this proposed by an authority who might be listened to quicker than they'll listen to me.

85% of the people are satisfied with their Health Care Insurance. Of the 15% that are not insured there are those who cannot afford insurance; there are those who are well enough off that they're willing to pay for their health care needs as they go; there are those who lost their health insurance when they became unemployed; some can't get insurance because they have pre-existing conditions etc.

I don't see why a health insurance plan can't be modeled after automobile insurance plans. Years ago, and maybe it is still in play, automobile insurers all got together and paid into what was called the Assigned Risk Pool. The pool provided insurance for new car drivers and others who were considered poor risks. By means of this pool, everyone was insured.

If all the health care insurers in the country paid into a pool, such as what is - or was done - in the Automobile Insurance Industry, it could provide insurance to everyone that needs it. It could allay the fears of the insurers that the Government would take over the Health Insurance Industry with a Nationalized Health Care plan.

There are quirks that would have to be ironed out, of course. With auto insurance the law requires everyone to have insurance and no one argues the State's mandate and requirement for people to have insurance because they want to collect if they've been harmed through someone else's fault.

Health insurance is different. It would have to be studied to see if people could be compelled to have it. But all but the well-to-do would surely not want to be without it. A study could be made for those who are in that lower income category to pay according to their means. The poorest would have to pay some small fee or perform community service so they don't clog the system running for treatment for every little sniffle. There would have to be a charity care program set up to care for anyone who is completely incapacitated.

And so it goes for that portion of the people that get their health insurance from this pool that would mimic the Assigned Risk Pool of the Auto Industry. A study would have to be made to see what income level a plan like this should be available to.

As with auto insurance the only Government involvement would be for each state to have a commissioner to settle whatever grievances that might come up.

A privately run plan such as this could end the fears of imposing a trillion dollar burden on the taxpayer over the next decade.



Of course, if we're in the grip of an administration that's bent on transforming our Republic/Democracy into a Socialist/Communist State this plan would not appeal to it.

OIL

Eric Holder said that we're a nation of cowards. If, instead, he had said we're a nation of fools, he would have said something with some degree of truth. That is, those of us who don't want to develop our own vast resources of oil and natural gas and want to keep us beholden to foreign hostile nations for our oil needs. And vast resources it is. Check this out:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/7380721.html

Disgraceful Behavior

This is a letter to the editor that appeared in the 2/28/11 issue of the Washington Times:

Disgraceful behavior

By the attitudes and ac­tions of the Wisconsin protesters and other of like mind, we are certain they never would have survived the Great De­pression or World War II like their parents and grandparents, who should be extremely ashamed of their thuggish, childish behavior. Most of us, who pay their inflated salaries, don't get a union, govern­ment, or double dip re­tirement package. We saved ours all by our­selves, by choosing smaller homes, driving our cars 10-15 years, and forgoing lavish sporting/entertainment events.

This regime has elimi­nated 25 percent of our hard-earned retirement, caused a 30-40 percent increase in our medical insurance costs, added 30 percent in food, gas (where's the rage over $3.00 a gallon now?), taxes, and utilities, with no end in sight.  How much more money will you waste before our for­eign lenders take over?  Where will these protest­ers be then?

For years we have poured billions of dollars into education, even our road funds, leaving us with miserable highways. Yet, what do we have to show for this money?  How about more fraud and graft and lazy, illiter­ate students who show no respect for their teachers or their schools.  We have triple the administrators we need, making triple the salary they earn.  We have social programs that impede kids from being productive citizens. We have programs that waste years coddling non-citi­zens through our schools, giving them advantages over our kids who have to pay their own way. We have unqualified teachers who should have never been hired, and who can't get fired, dragging down the dedicated ones who really care.  Don't tell me we can't cut fat out of this Pig.

We are sick, sick, sick of the "entitlement" union thugs demanding more from those who pay their inflated salaries, re­tirement, and medial beanies, and who refuse to participate in rebuild­ing a strong fiscal nation. Where are the repercus­sions from breaking their union/school contract?  Where did they get their professional signs and who paid for them... union dues or your taxes??  Why isn't the Jus­tice Department issuing injunctions to go back to work or not be paid?  Their greed is appalling, and their holding our kids hostage is degrading to their profession and a blight on their character.

B. C. Lochridge

McKinnev. Texas


I have a blog post further down (entitled Lifespan of a Republic) about information that was passed on by Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor, about how republics literally cannibalize themselves and meet their demise because of entitlements.  Tyler states that the average lifespan of a republic is 200 years.


Quote of the Day !!!

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome becomes bankrupt.  People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
 -- Cicero, 55 BC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was close to the time that Rome ended as a republic and
Julius Caesar took over as the first Roman emperor.

Victory ignored by media

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Your kind of news!

Ready for a shock? Below is an article from the London Times about our military. Interesting, it is! Our media coverage is shameful!

Winning Isn't News - By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

Iraq: What would happen if the U.S. won a war but the media didn't tell the American public? Apparently, we have to rely on a British newspaper for the news that we've defeated the last remnants of al-Qaida in Iraq .

London's Sunday Times called it 'the culmination of one of the most spectacular victories of the war on terror.' A terrorist force that once numbered more than 12,000, with strongholds in the west and central regions of Iraq, has over two years been reduced to a mere 1,200 fighters, backed against the wall in the northern city of Mosul.

The destruction of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI) is one of the most unlikely and unforeseen events in the long history of American warfare. We can thank President Bush's surge strategy, in which he bucked both Republican and Democratic leaders in Washington by increasing our forces there instead of surrendering.

We can also thank the leadership of the new general he placed in charge there, David Petraeus, who may be the foremost expert in the world on counter-insurgency warfare. And we can thank those serving in our military in Iraq who engaged local Iraqi tribal leaders and convinced them America was their friend and AQI their enemy.

Al-Qaida's loss of the hearts and minds of ordinary Iraqis began in Anbar Province, which had been written off as a basket case, and spread out from there. Now, in Operation Lion's Roar the Iraqi army and the U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment is destroying the fraction of terrorists who are left. More than 1,000 AQI operatives have already been apprehended.

Sunday Times (London) reporter Marie Colvin, traveling with Iraqi forces in Mosul, found little AQI presence even in bullet-ridden residential areas that were once insurgency strongholds, and reported that the terrorists have lost control of its Mosul urban base, with what is left of the organization having fled south into the countryside.

Meanwhile, the State Department reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government has achieved 'satisfactory' progress on 15 of the 18 political benchmarks 'a big change for the better from a year ago.' Things are going so well that Maliki has even for the first time floated the idea of a timetable for withdrawal of American forces. He did so while visiting the United Arab Emirates ,which over the weekend announced that it was forgiving almost $7 billion of debt owed by Baghdad, an impressive vote of confidence from a fellow Arab state in the future of a free Iraq.

But where are the headlines and the front-page stories about all this good news? As the Media Research Center pointed out last week, 'the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 were silent Tuesday night about the benchmarks 'that signaled political progress.'

The war in Iraq has been turned around 180 degrees both militarily and politically because the president stuck to his guns. Yet apart from IBD, Fox News Channel and parts of the foreign press, the media don't seem to consider this historic event a big story.

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Addendum: The reason you haven't seen this on American television or read about it in the American press is simple--journalism is 'dead' in this country. They are controlled by Liberal Democrats who would rather see our troops defeated than recognize a successful Republican initiated response to 9/11.

Media probably are holding 'til after coronation of BHO in order to give him credit.

Citizenship

Forwarded electronic letter:

Subject: Countries that offer birthright citizenship

In God we trust!

Obviously we're the only racially paranoid dopes to the very point of destroying our National Identity. And for "What? and for Who?"

HERE ARE ALL THE DEVELOPED NATIONS OF THE WORLD THAT OFFER BIRTHRIGHT

C ITIZENSHIP TO THE BABIES OF TOURISTS AND ILLEGAL ALIENS:

1. United States

That's right, every other modern developed nation in the world has gotten rid of birthright citizenship policies. Yet, during the last few months, most of U.S. news media and many politicians have ridiculed comments by some other politicians that it is time for the U.S. to put an end to birthright citizenship for tourists and illegal aliens.

Folks, the U.S. stands alone.

There used to be all kinds of Developed countries that gave away their citizenship as freely as we do in the U.S. But one by one they all have recognized the folly of that policy.

SOME MODERN COUNTRIES THAT RECENTLY ENDED THEIR BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP POLICY:

Canada was the last non-U.S ... holdout. Illegal aliens stopped getting citizenship for their babies in 2009

Australia's birthright citizenship requirements are much more stringent than those of H.R. 1868 and took effect in 2007

New Zealand repealed in 2006

Ireland repealed in 2005

France repealed in 1993

India repealed in 1987

United Kingdom repealed in 1983

Portugal repealed in 1981


The United States is now the laughing stock of the modern world.

Only the U.S. values its citizenship so lowly as to distribute it promiscuously to the off-spring of foreign citizens visiting Disney World on tourist visas and to foreign citizens who have violated their promises on their visitor, work and student visas to stay illegally in the country, as well as to those who just plain sneak across our borders.

It's not just Mexico and South America who are sending illegals across our borders. Currently, the CBP reports that of those apprehended illegally crossing the border, China is number one.

Wake up America.

Illegal aliens from China , India , Russia , the Middle East and a host of other nations are flooding the country. Ironically, some of these illegals and/or their offspring are given positions at the front of the line for Government jobs, contracts and assistance.

Look around you! We are giving away our culture, and economic and fiscal strength because our borders are not secure and we bestow citizenship irresponsibly.