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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Frank Pastore :: Townhall.com Columnist
Welcome to the Brave New World
by Frank Pastore
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Will the Dems' health care Christmas Present to America be an improvement or detriment to our health care system?


Today, it looks like a very short step for a government leader to say something like this:

Due to the ongoing economic crisis, state and federal governments are now forced to further ration public services because increasing demand continues to outpace diminishing supply. We can’t raise taxes high enough and fast enough on taxpayers to generate enough revenue to adequately increase services.

Therefore, we’re forced to take drastic steps to reduce the aggregate demand from tax spenders—those who pay little or nothing in state and federal taxes. Since children of tax payers are not a significant drag on the economy, we are targeting limiting the number of children of tax spenders.

Beginning immediately, we will institute policies to reduce the number of children born to tax spenders.

Therefore, we will target increased contraception and abortion spending in our urban centers. Public schools will now institute mandatory pregnancy tests and off campus abortion care if necessary. Any woman choosing to become a mother must submit a Parental Candidate Application and receive her federal Parenting License before the state will approve her pregnancy.

Sadly, we’re forced to now ration childbirth along with our other medical and social services.

Thank you, and may God Bless America.

For this week and in this bill, the bill that passed the House did not have cost-cutting reproductive services. Speaker Pelosi was too honest with her intentions and backed off under the bright lights of media scrutiny and public outrage. But, unless we change course, this is where we’re headed.

And you thought Aldous Huxley was writing science fiction. Welcome to the Brave New World.

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The Frank Pastore Show is heard in Los Angeles weekday afternoons on 99.5 KKLA and on the web at kkla.com, and is the winner of the 2006 National Religious Broadcasters Talk Show of the Year. Frank is a former major league pitcher with graduate degrees in both philosophy of religion and political philosophy.
 
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Pelosi's proposal will resurface
One thing about Democrat proposals that are essentially forced out of legislation . . . they always ahow up again in some form and in other legislation. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if this showed up in a highway bill.

other points
People correctly point out that those countries that have universal coverage and access (NOT always universally available equal coverage -- which is totally different) have never gotten rid of it. For a variety of reasons, the free market does not apply to medicine. If I got hit by a car, I could not "negotiate" for how much it would cost for emergency surgery. We don't price shop for medical procedures since, in most cases, we cannot choose to receive a procedure (the exception being cosmetic surgery). Even if I came up with a great idea for a private insurance program, chances are because of the amount of regulation we have (much of it Republican regulation to benefit big insurance companies, for profit hospitals and drug companies) it could never be implemented. Is there anyone posting here who negotiates for there medical treatment regularly? Don't people understand that it is perfectly OK in our system for a hospital to charge an insurance company $1000 for a medical procedure but an individual $10,000 for the same procedure. How is it if the U.S. system is so much better than other developed countries that we don't live as long and we have higher levels of many diseases? Why do we pay more for most equal medical services than other countries? Don't give the reason that it is the huge number of medical malpractice cases because med mal lawsuits have gone way down over the last 10 years (just check out the stats on the Pa Supreme Court Website for example). It is also unusual for a plaintiff to win a case (let alone lots of millions of dollars for a case). One case that I once saw awarded only 40 thousand dollars for a botched circumcism.
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