Dear-Dope-a-care about control not healthcare

Today’s flag post:

Uh oh, some half-black jug eared dope said that doctors are cutting people’s feet off for 30, 40 or 50 thousand dollars. This sounds “fishy” on two counts. One, the AMA says Medicare pays between 500 and 700 dollars for foot amputations. So, this idiot is either a horribly ill-informed jackass making it up as he goes or a damn liar. Which is it?

Second, this is the second time this buffoon has accused doctors of performing unnecessary procedures for profits. If he knows or believes this to be the case, why hasn’t there been a single doctor arrested for defrauding Medicare and causing unnecessary pain and suffering of patients?

Go flag yourself watch it: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/08/13/video-go-flag-yourself/

Today’s Lex post:

First the Dear Dope tells us crooked insurance companies won’t allow us to have medical care that we desperately need. Damn insurance companies. Then the Dear Dope has tells us twice that insurance companies are so lackadaisical that doctors can cut off perfectly good feet and rip good tonsils without so much as a, “Whoa there doc. On average, you have been cutting off 15 feet a day for the last 10 years. We’ve noticed the number of feet you cut off increases every year when your son’s Harvard tuition is due.” So which is it – damn doctors or damn insurance companies?

This is all bull$h!t! This is not about insuring the uninsured. Once you strip out illegal aliens and people who can afford insurance but don't have it, the number of uninsured Americans is a manageable number. There is no reason to turn the best healthcare system in the world into Canada’s because 8 million Americans can’t get or afford medical insurance.

There is a lot of talk about insurance companies not taking people with pre-existing conditions and people too poor to afford insurance. Fine, government can sweeten the pot with insurance companies for that limited group of people. Or better yet the government can offer tax incentives for doctors and hospitals who offer pro bono healthcare for people who either can’t get or afford health insurance.

But providing affordable healthcare to Americans is NOT what’s in play here. It is another government power grab pure and simple. If the government wanted to take care of the few worthy uninsured Americans, it could do so a at a fraction of the cost and .00001% of the administrative confusion associated with Dear-Dope-a-care.

Government wants the power so they can control every aspect of your life. Hold on Lex that’s over the top. Really? Look at the cash for clunkers program. It controls behavior with YOUR tax dollars. Try taking your 2006 Navigator in and trading it in for a 2009 Ford F150 and get $4,500 of your neighbor's tax dollars to do so. It ain’t gonna happen. You HAVE to trade in your classic car and you HAVE to buy some 22 MPG hybrid GOVERNMENT APPROVED piece of crap.

The exact same thing will happen with Dear-Dope-a-care. Sure we'll give you healthcare. Now stop smoking and only two beers a week and no motorcycles or skydiving or Oreos. Also food alleys at county and state fairs are now banned along with McDonalds, Burger King and Pizza Huts! Wendy’s can stay open because they contributed the most to the Dear Dope's campaign. (That's just as an example. I don't know which fast food giant gave the Dear Dope the most campaign cash.)