Coming Soon: Health Care For Clunkers!
August 3, 2009 · carl · Print This Article
Barack Obama and his cronies in Congress are sure in an awful hurry to get their health care “reform” bill passed.
Some of us can’t help but wonder what the big hurry is.
Of course, ask that question and the answers you will get would lead you to believe that anyone who is not covered by their own health insurance has no access to medical treatment.
Just how accurate is that viewpoint?
Not accurate at all, and I can make that claim based upon first-hand knowledge.
My son is an EMT, and on a daily basis he deals with seeing to it that people with no health insurance coverage receive medical care.
The vast majority of the time this involves transporting someone to a local ER to obtain treatment.
He can relate hundreds of stories of people whom he has seen come into a hospital, be asked if they have health insurance, and when they answer that they do not, are seen by a doctor regardless.
Now, does this mean that this is the most efficient method of health care?
Of course not.
But it does present a much different picture than that being painted by the Obama administration, one of the favorite laments of which is the “47 million Americans who have no health coverage.”
Which leads back to the original question, what is the big hurry?
It only seems logical that when working on a proposal that would have an effect on every man, woman and child in the country, you would want to take your time to make sure you got it right.
Yet how many members of Congress have actually read the health care reform bill?
President Obama himself, when questioned as to specifics during a recent press conference, admitted to a lack of knowledge.
And there is no finer example as to how well the government will be able to run health care than the recent “Cash For Clunkers” program.
A survey of over 2,000 new car dealers done by the National Automobile Dealers Association found concerns about huge backlogs in the processing of the paperwork that dealerships must submit to the government in order to receive reimbursment.
After less than a week, the program was suspended due to bureaucratic inefficiency in processing claims, coupled with fears that the program would run out of funding.
Before the suspension, roughly 27,000 vehicles had been purchased through the program.
Put your own political bias aside for a moment and think about this.
The criteria for the program is pretty straightforward, if you trade in a car or truck that meets the guidelines, you get up to a $4500.00 discount.
The new car dealer submits the paperwork to the feds, and gets reimbursed.
Yet in less than a week’s time, the government becomes so hopelessly bogged down with paperwork and funding concerns that they suspend the program.
Not to mention the millions of dollars still owed to the car dealers.
Now if the government is not capable of keeping track of sending out rebates for less than 30,ooo car purchases, how in the world are they going to keep track of insuring 300 million Americans?
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Great point as usual Carl. Keep up the great work!!