Say Goodbye to Freedom, And Hello to Healthcare

Veronica Graves
vgraves@uccs.edu

Who wouldn’t want to make everybody healthy and happy? Those selfish, rotten, healthcare opposing conservatives! All the Obama administration wants is sunshine, flowers, bunnies and healthy people to enjoy this Obamatopia!

According to last weekends New York Times every part of this new bill will redistribute wealth. Proving that the progressives were lying through their teeth about the bill not being socialistic.

It never ceases to astound me the ability of the progressives to name anyone that disagrees with them so easily. Those that stand against them are racist, greedy, and evil 24/7 no questions asked.

I digress.

Under the ruse of “lets make everybody healthy” the left has snuck under the radar.

The United States is creating a healthcare system similar to that of Canada or Great Britten. Oh wonderful Britten, you are our bastion of hope; you show how wonderful government provided health care can be! Yes, Great Britten where just this last week a dying patient was refused a glass of water.

Not to astound any liberals who mustered up the courage to read my column, but Conservatives are much less concerned with the “health” part of the bill than all the other stuff that came with this bill so big that it makes War and Peace look like a comic book.

For example:
The bill will provide insurance to all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally. Page 50/section 152 (Can anyone guess who gets to pay for this insurance?)

Cancer hospital will ration care according to the patient's age. Page 272. section 1145 (eugenics anyone?...and as this healthcare system gets deeper into the red, as every other one has, how low will that age get?)

The government mandates advance-care planning consultations. Those on Social Security will be *required* to attend an "end-of-life planning" seminar every five years. Page 425, line 4-12 (Death counseling.)

The government will have real-time access to an individual's bank account and will have the authority to make electronic fund transfers from those accounts. Page 58 and 59

I ponder how a bill that was supposed to be entirely for the people had so much opposition from the people. Between 60-75% of Americans did not want the bill to pass. Speaker Pelosi swore that the bill would be passed no matter what it took.

Pelosi should just say what she really means; “The end justifies the means.”

But most infuriating of all is the fact that all congress members are exempt from the bill. Each congress person that swore this was a bill for the people gets their own private care.

Well America, say goodbye to freedom, and hello to socialism…er, um… I mean “Healthcare…oh, and bunnies”