Incompetence on Parade

Now that Nancy Pelosi and all but 39 Democrats have rammed the nearly 2,000 page Healthcare Reform bill down our throats- we can all rest easy and just await the Senate.

Trouble is, I just read on Saturday that under the House form of the bill, people who willfully "opt out" of the coverage (in other words people who do not purchase for the government's healthcare plan) can be jailed.

What a unique marketing strategy for the government to utilize as it jumps into the healthcare insurance industry.

I am sure if Blue-Cross, United, or any other insurance companies that provide health insurance had applied that strategy years ago, we wouldn't have the problems we have today.

I can hear the nifty slogans now that could be employed: "Your in GOOD HANDS with Allstate; without it your BEHIND BARS!"

Oh that's right, individual businesses do not have the power to force people to buy their products at the point of a gun. They have to compel people to purchase their product/services by offering value, true customer service at reasonable rates.

Ms. Pelosi, please explain to me again the part about how this is going to increase competition?

So in the original scenario which our President laid out and the bankruptcy-bound press propagated - 47 million Americans are uninsured.

Of that number it has been determined that a substantial portion are uninsured by choice. They are either self-insured or they choose not to purchase health-care insurance.

So we are saying now that of these 47 million, people that we are contemplating changing an industry (and about 1/6 of our economy) to help - a substantial portion of them will be jailed if they do not choose the government's benevolent healthcare plan???!??

That seems to be rather common for our government and it is the very reason that the government should be limited at best: In most cases, when government tries to help, the "Baby Huey" affect kicks in and it ends up making matters worse.

Now, perhaps I am getting all bent out of shape for no reason. Maybe in all that last minute deal making in an effort to buy off votes - this provision was stricken. Maybe I don't really have to worry about my cost of healthcare expanding drastically or the fact that my taxes and the taxes of my children will be over-burdening or that I might be jailed for deliberately not accepting the governments benevolent gift of health care.

But I don't know that because I have not read the bill.

How could I - if it was available at all, it was changing right down to the moments prior to passage.

It is the epitome of incompetence and every American should say so. We are NOT children.