The American Healthcare Debate
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By R.D. Skidmore, Prof.
Nancy Pelosi (D), California, and Steny Hoyer (D), Maryland, write in defense of their Nationalized Healthcare plan that "it is now evident that an ugly campaign is underway not merely to misrepresent the health insurance reform legislation, but to disrupt public meetings and prevent members of Congress and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue."
This is a good line that totally misses any target of accuracy.
The "ugliness" they write about is actually the visible frustration on the part of the constituents because they recognize that their representative repeatedly fails to respond to the questions being asked, and then become threatened. The representative has his mind made up and really wants a 'dog and pony' show where the constituency agrees with him. Thomas Sowell wrote on this as the arrogance of the eliteŠthat they know better what is good for the constituent than the constituent does; that individual liberty is to be forfeited to the elite.
Pelosi and Hoyer agree that it is appropriate for their troops to rush the speaker's podium at Columbia University as Jim Gilchrist of the Minuteman Project began his introductory remarks as an invited guest, forcing him from the arena.
It is in the spirit of true American ideals when thugs were video-logged intimidating voters and that Attorney General Eric Holder refused to prosecute them for harassing voters outside a voting place and is totally appropriate.
Speaker Pelosi is correct to bring out the wrongness of 'hanging in effigy one Democratic member of Congress'. This should only be reserved for say a President Bush or any other member they disagree with, but never one of their own.
These disruptions we witness occur because many of the constituents are reading the House Bill (H.R. 3200), which their representatives have not, and they do not like what they are reading. The representatives are concerned that finally they have been discovered for their ignorance and disinformation that they parroted to their constituents.
Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer and Mr. Obama may say one thing, but when you can read that the bill says something different all integrity is lost.
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As Nancy Pelosi feigns her shock at seeing Swastikas on placards and fails to describe fully that the sign holder does have that emblem in a red circle with a line through it; does she refuse to recognize that there is a real fear for our nation, a path being charted today that is the same path Hitler established with his National Socialization in Germany?
Is this the change the American people voted for? Regardless of your party affiliation patriotic Americans want nothing to do with a Nationalized America, and it is being expressed with the Nationalization of healthcare debate.
There are those, who are 'hard core' and will never read the legislation for themselves, preferring to believe and parrot the party line they are instructed with and paid to represent - after all you do not bite the hand that feeds you?
When it comes to 'facts being heard' there is an approach Pelosi and Hoyer prefer. It works like this: "you are to believe what I say not the bills we have written even though the bills we have written is what you will follow and not what I have said."
Maybe they do not recognize that the patriot's have measured their words and read what has been written and found them wanting because their words do not mirror what is written.
Their approach is to have all Americans come to the public trough and drink their kool-aide, and when you do not, when you challenge and question and require that your representatives be accountable then you are un-patriotic.
In order for those un-patriotic Americans to support nationalized healthcare they are being asked to accept three arguments that are fundamentally absurd:
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First, that the same government that pioneered $400 hammers and $600 toilet seats is somehow going to control healthcare costs;
Second, that the same government that runs FEMA is going to make our health care system more efficient and responsive;
Third, that this same government which runs the IRS is going to make our healthcare more compassionate and understanding.
Town Halls are a good old American tradition even if the representative does not like what he hears.
Thanks for reading
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R.D. Skidmore is a professor at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Ca. He may be contacted at rskidmor49@excite.com
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