According to this recent article, Obama will present a healthcare reform package in advance of the Feb. 25 healthcare summit. Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent a letter to Democratic and Republican Congressional leaders, inviting them to this health care summit. According to the referenced article, the letter includes the following statements:
Since this meeting will be most productive if information is widely available before the meeting, we will post online the text of a proposed health insurance reform package. This legislation would put a stop to insurance company abuses, extend coverage to millions of Americans, get control of skyrocketing premiums and out-of-pocket costs, and reduce the deficit.
Is Obama kidding me ? How in hell can any legislation do all that, while at the same time reducing the deficit? It can not ! And if anyone really believes that it can, then that person is either ignorant, an unthinking idealogue, an idiot, or an otherwise dysfunctional person. I want such people to stay out of my face, and out of my life. And what’s with these strong words “abuses” and “skyrocketing”? Oh right. I forgot. There are too many insurance company “abuses”, and their premiums are “skyrocketing”. Yep, way to go Obama. Use the insurance companies as scapegoats for the high cost of medical care. After all, they just made record profits, and “profits” are not that good, especially if they are “record” profits. Federal legislation, as crafted by Obama and his administration, will of course have almost no abuses, and not add one dime to the deficit, while, of course, covering many more people with quality medical care.
I got so mad reading those words in that letter that I can no longer refrain from calling Obama a dangerous man and a disaster for our country. What frightens me is that Obama himself is so full of self-confidence, self-esteem and hubris that he probably believes that what he wants done is in fact not only doable but also good. Well, Obama may be intelligent, but he is too full of it and he is not at all a wise man.
If the reader thinks that I need to justify my remarks about Obama and this “health care reform” business, I have already done so on my web site, with this page serving as a starting point.