Vicious Conservatives exploit Kennedy Brain Cancer For Health Care Profit

In the Dakota Voice article “Ted Kennedy Health Care: Good for Me, Not for Thee” assumed the country hates Ted Kennedy: “Though he usually provokes visceral political reactions, most people have been pulling for Senator Ted Kennedy's recovery...” What a pleasant thing to say.

To these “for profit” elitists, health care can be deadly on the one hand, but pleasantly expensive on the other:

“Our free market system can be expensive, but you usually get quick, quality service. NewsMax points out that the socialist "reforms"…can prove deadly to the average person…such a policy “always wind up cutting corners simply to save money. People with Kennedy’s condition are dying or dead as a result.”

The Democrats' solution to health care is like grabbing a bucket of gasoline, running into a burning building and throwing the bucket on the fire in an attempt to put it out.

Wow, I should be happy I’m spending more on health care! Heck, next year I hope I can pay even more so they can more easily absorb some of the losses they’ll incur covering the risks we pose to their bottom line.

In a convoluted, upside down look at the current system, where Congress has government provided care while the general public does without; these free market zealots are framing the issue differently.

Of course, the Ted Kennedy's of the world will never have to live by the same rules they impose on average Americans…we need to get the consumer fully involved in the process, i.e. making cost vs. benefit decisions to help control costs.

First: they’re right about Congress not having to live by the same rules, because they get free health care and we don’t. I haven’t seen to many Republicans trying to reduce government meddling by giving up their taxpayer funded plans.

Second: cost vs. benefit decisions? Oh, like a menu at a restaurant: “Let’s see, I can only afford treatment for a bacterial infection this year, so I’ll have that today. Maybe next time I can order the cancer coverage. What’s that, will I have extra check-ups with my order? Sorry, not today.” Health care problems don’t seem to leave us too many choices when they occur, or the luxury of deciding at a later, more convenient time.

And finally, I found so many things wrong in the following statement, that there isn’t enough space on the internet to cover it all. Sometimes I wonder why I try.

America was founded and rose to economic greatness largely in part because
of our free market system. We need to return to what we know works, not cast our hopes on utopian schemes that deny economic realities and human nature.

Why does health care have to be a part of the free market system? I’m waiting.