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Sunday, September 30, 2007

HillaryCare is Back....So Whose Surprised?

The old adage "a leopard can't change it's spots" was no more evident when the "new and improved" Hillary Clinton re-introduction of what she calls "Universal Health Care". Do we really have to go back and rehash 1993's Health Care disaster, where even George Mitchell couldn't get any version of a Hillary-Care bill through a Democrat-controlled Senate?

Do we need to be reminded of the outrage of the American public and the Gingrich Revolution which toppled Democrats from Congressional control for the first time in recent history? Do we really need to see rebroadcasts of the "Harry and Louise" ads where a couple lamented their limited choices under Hillary's nationwide HMO plan? Detractors will say those ads say they were just propaganda, but they bespoke many valuable truths:

  • People are different and so are their health care needs.
  • Cookie-Cutter solutions don't work on 300,000,000+ people.
  • The US Government has NEVER done anything better AND cheaper than the private sector.
  • The US Government was NEVER DESIGNED to do anything better and cheaper than the private sector.
  • The US Government is not a for-profit entity. Budget deficits don't mean we're not taxed enough, it means the Government has SPENT too much.

There are definitely problems with our health-care delivery today. But the MAJOR problem; Insurance Company red-tape and bureaucracy, will only be exasperated by a Government-run Health Care Program! If you've ever had a run-in with an insurance company and the aggravation that caused, compare it with a dust-up with the IRS, or the EPA, or any other Federal entity. The Government Bureaucracy has forgotten more than the insurance companies know about "red tape".

And then of course, there are the shining examples of Canada, Sweden, and Great Britain where citizens wait in pain for months to have a simple procedure performed. We take speed of health care for granted here. You need an MRI, within a few days you get an MRI. Conversely, in the before mentioned countries, you could wait 9 MONTHS! Even the humble X-ray which most doctors perform in their offices during your visit can take months abroad. Why? Socialized Government-run health care

Why is that foreign dignitaries and non-Americans of wealth come to the United States when faced with a major personal medical problem? Quality, plain and simple.

So what's wrong with health care in America today compared to the rest of the world? Nothing. So why the outcry? Why the high insurance premiums? Why the "rush and wait" at the doctor's office? Why the outcry?

Bureaucracy; both on the part of the insurance companies trying to deliver a service and still make a profit, by the Government, which constantly oversteps its role of watchdog to become policy dictator, by the Courts which have decided that doctors are not allowed to have human frailties and have driven the cost of malpractice insurance so high that doctors are abandoning specialties like OBY/GN because their risk is so high and by lawyers, who see medicine as a lottery waiting to be won. And of course, let's not forget the pharmaceutical industry which seems to make all it's profit on Americans and then sell the same drugs at a fraction of the price abroad. And lastly, by the American public themselves, which expect the best care available not understanding that an MRI machine costs millions of dollars that someone has to pay for.

That's what's wrong but not who to blame. Unlike the Government, which can spend more than it takes in through taxes and call it a deficit, the rest of America has to be able to cover it's costs and make profit in order to survive and invest in new research.

The PROBLEM is what Hillary is proposing as the SOLUTION: Bureaucracy!

The insurance companies and the doctors need to sit down as partners, not combatants, and eliminate the bureaucracy in a way fair to both sides while still providing world-class health care. Did you know the average doctor makes less than $125,000 a year; many a lot less.

If all the insurance companies simply agreed to use the same forms and diagnostic codes, tens of millions if not hundreds of millions could be saved. Standardization is not the same thing as Socialism, but that's something Hillary (and Karl Marx) never understood. You don't solve the problem of red-tape by creating a new and costly bureaucracy to manage it. You let the free market manage it like a business and sometimes (like the new mega-phone companies) it's OK to let competitors work together on a streamlined way of "universally" doing business. One thing I know for certain: the free market will always do it better and smarter because their corporate survival depends on it. "One-Size-Fits-All" Government-imposed solutions always fail because they are non-sustainable over time (i.e. Social Security). If the Government wants to kick in money (our money) let THEM fully pay for the health care all the illegal aliens receive in this country. After all, the Government mandated that hospitals treat them.

After the outcry in 1993, am I surprised Hillary is bringing back socialized (I'm sorry, UNIVERSAL) health care? Not at all. It's simply the first of a number of 1960's inspired "solutions" and social engineering programs she's championed her entire life.

Don't let her time and positions in the Senate fool you. The American people have a short memory and Hillary knows it. Everything she has done and said has been calculated towards winning a 2008 Presidential run. It means nothing. After all, even a socialist knows a leopard simply can't change it's spots.



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Saturday, September 22, 2007

Why Anyone But Hillary in 2008?

I started calling myself a Republican at probably the same age as Hillary Rodham decided she wanted to be the first woman President of the United States: age 13. If it wasn't for Hillary, Bill Clinton would have been a very successful real estate tycoon and still living in Arkansas.

But poor Bill was part of her plan to obtain the White House. She shoved him into politics, ignored his marital and moral failings, made him Governor of Arkansas and President of the United States.

I don't fault Bill Clinton. He seems like a real nice guy to be around....Bush 41 certainly thinks so. And Bill Clinton is very intelligent and an excellent conversationalist. I'll bet a dinner with Bill Clinton would be a lot of fun and mentally stimulating. But he didn't have the temperament or restraint for the Presidency. Not his fault. He was a tool to be used by Hillary and Hillary gets what she wants.

When his 2nd term was up, she dropped him like a hot potato, and in a stunning move that had carpet baggers around the world drooling with envy, walked into New York and became Senator. Wow. When she ran for her second term, she would not even commit to finishing it as 2008 was approaching.....and was re-elected. Her whole time in the Senate has been a craftily managed series of moves to the right, then to the left, then back to center. Every position calculated, not on the issue or what's best for America, but what was best for her 2008 Presidential run. A lot of us watched in amazement as she got away with it. We shouldn't have: remember the voters of New York.

So why is this blog called "Anyone But Hillary in 2008!"? Why not Rudy for President, or Fred for President? Why just anyone but Hillary?

I stated earlier that I had become a Republican at age 13. It was at the Republican convention in Miami that re-nominated Richard Nixon. Ronald Reagan is a personal hero of mine and will be in time remembered as one of our greatest Presidents. But we Republicans could never seem to take both the House and the Senate at the same time. Oh, if that could only happen, we could fix everything wrong in America and the world, I naively thought. And then Newt, the Contract with America, and we had achieved all I'd been waiting for........

Only to squander it in pork spending, sex scandals, poor leadership, inept management, and a current President who is more concerned with creating a permanent underclass of illegal Mexican immigrants than he is about a budget out of control. I no longer call myself a Republican. I'm not an Independent or a Libertarian either. I'm just an American who is watching his country slide into 2nd world status and feels helpless to do anything about it. According to the census bureau, Hispanics will comprise the majority racial group in the USA by 2060. The 22nd century will belong to the Chinese, the only thing keeping us relevant being the amount of nuclear weapons we possess.

But of this I am certain: Hillary Clinton is a danger to the United States, and while I'll be dead well before 2060, Hillary has the capability to destroy America in my lifetime.

I live in Texas and we have open primaries. For the first time in my life, I will vote in the Democratic Primary for whichever candidate has the best chance of beating Hillary. In the General election, if Hillary is the Democrat nominee, I will vote for whatever candidate the Republicans put up. If Hillary is not the nominee, I probably won't bother voting at all. Will it really matter who is President at that point?

And that's why I say ANYONE BUT HILLARY IN 2008! That's the ONLY thing that matters.


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Hillary's Own Words Define Her

No one is better at defining Hillary Clinton and her core beliefs than Hillary Clinton. Certainly the Press has failed and the voting public in New York is on a mental holiday. Here is a small sample of statements Hillary made in the last few years which give insight into her adjenda:



6/29/04: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."



9/2/05: "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy - that they are being watched."



5/29/07: "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few, and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."



6/4/07: "(We) can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."


6/4/07: "We have to build a political consensus, and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground."


6/4/07: "I certainly think the free-market has failed."

What frightening statements coming from a woman who is hell-bent on becoming the next President of the United States.


Thanks to my friend Shelly for the above quotes. Know some good Hillary quotes yourself? Email them to me at TheUnloadingzone@gmail.com and I'll keep adding to the list.

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