I'm Pro-Choice

I have to admit that I'm pro-choice. I'm not referring to abortion but rather to my medical care. Obama used an example of Doctor's taking tonsils out when a child has a sore throat. This was an interesting example and actually a poor one at that.

The way things are right now it would ultimately be the parent's choice. The doctor can recommend surgery but the parents can get a second opinion and then have the choice to say yes or no. Under Obama's scenario of government run health care, if there was a child who had a legitimate reason to have there tonsils removed the decision would be up to a government bureaucrat rather than the doctor and patient.

Obama has not even read the HealthCare bill he is trying so hard to ram down our throats. Why is that important? Because he is making claims that are completely untrue and is contrary to what is written in the bill.

Right now everyone is concerned about the 50 million who don't have insurance and they are willing to screw the 100+ million who do have insurance and are happy with what they've got. The 50 million number the president speaks of is very debatable. Some argue that there are millions of people who should be excluded such as those who aren't American citizens (10 million), those who can afford insurance but choose not to take it and people who qualify for government coverage but don't sign up.

The President and the Democratic controlled congress are about to add 50 million people to the healthcare system but with the same number of doctors and nurses. There is a nursing shortage as things stand and the govt is thinking about adding an additional 50 million people. The only choice is for the government to ration health care. The people who will suffer the most will be the elderly. Recently, a woman asked Obama if her 105 year old mother who got a pacemaker at the age of 100 would have gotten a pacemaker with his plan. His response was for her to take a painkiller.

In Canada and in other places with socialized medicine, patients have to wait months to see a doctor. For instance, someone with Arthritis the average wait time is 9 months. Here in the US you can see your doctor immediately. Anytime the government gets involved it only screws things up. Medicare and Medicaid are going broke. Social Security is going broke and next will be government run health care.

"In Obama's interview on ABC, Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it's not provided by insurance.

Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn't seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he's proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.

The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if "it's my family member, if it's my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care" (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HealthCare/story?id=7919991&page=1)

At the end its all about choice and Obama and the Democratic controlled Congress wants to take that away from us.

Let's Review

I wanted to take a look at some of the highlights or lowlights of the last few months.

1) Creation of generational debt
I believe the biggest mistake of this administration was the nearly $1 trillion stimulus package. In order to pay for this, the govt will have to borrow, print and most likely increase taxes. None of which will help us. The president came out and said last week that the stimulus did what it was intended for --to extend unemployment benefits. However, Obama is only treating a symptom and not the problem. Rather than extend unemployment benefits why not get people off of unemployment and into the workforce.

Obama promised that stimulus wouldn't allow the unemployment rate to go above 8 percent but now we are sitting with an unemployment rate close to 10%.

Approximately 10% of the stimulus money has been spent. The defenders of the stimulus say that the reason for this is because government is cumbersome, slow and inefficient and it could take many more months. However, these same people want to give government control to health care, auto and the financial sector.

It is also interesting to note that the groups that benefited the most from the stimulus package were Obama's key supporters such as unions, ACORN and many other organizations. Just last week USA Today uncovered that stimulus money was going to Obama supporters in a very partisan way when the actual numbers are broken down and analyzed.

Now there is talk of a second stimulus package!

2) Iraq and Afghanistan
A good decision that he made was to stay the course in Afghanistan. The problem is that he campaigned as the anti-war president. He said that he would pull out of Iraq as soon as he was elected. None of those promises were kept so I'm sure people on the left may not be too happy with this flip flop.

3) Closing Guantanamo bay
This is where Obama drew the moral line and said no more torture. However, in cases of national security Obama can authorize the use of torture or as it is called Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. Basically nothing has changed because only the most wanted terrorists were subjected to these techniques anyways. Very clever way of sounding righteous but keeping everything the same.

Now Obama is stuck in the same sitatuation that Bush was in. Where do you send these criminals? Our Allies turned down Obamas request to keep them abroad. The citizens of this country don't want them on our soil. Do you let them go free? The ones that are released will join the battle field against the US once again.

Only time will tell.

4) Abortion
Obama said that he wants to compromise on the issue of abortion. I wasn't sure what that meant. What it means is that people who are against abortion would have to change their beliefs. Otherwise they would be divisive. As soon as he took office he reversed the abortion funding policy even though most people in the country are against abortion.

Anyways, these are just a few things to think about.