http://www.taxgirl.com/health-care-bill-update/ Paying taxes is painful... but reading about them shouldn't be. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:02:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.taxgirl.com/health-care-bill-update/comment-page-1/#comment-11063 Zenith Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:44:14 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/?p=3639#comment-11063 This bill is an outrage. They are not doing what the people want. I hope they all get voted out next election. We need to clean house in Washington. This bill is an outrage. They are not doing what the people want. I hope they all get voted out next election. We need to clean house in Washington.

]]> http://www.taxgirl.com/health-care-bill-update/comment-page-1/#comment-10952 garagefather Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:51:41 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/?p=3639#comment-10952 First ask yourself if anything the government does costs as little as they promise it will. Then ask yourself if government programs ever live up to their billing when passed. The answer has to be "no" on both accounts. Government health care will cost ten times what is expected and will severely lower the quality of care that people receive currently. Politicians argue that the current system is in crisis (not if you compare it to countries with socialized medicine), but passing government health care will guarantee political fear mongering and a health care crisis for politicians to exploit every election year. It will continually be criticized as inadequate and promises to "fix" it and calls for its abolition will happen every election cycle as those that depend on it will vote for people who scare them into thinking they will lose their precious entitlement. This will be no different than the scare mongering that happens with social security and the elderly. We will be stuck with a disaster that cannot be corrected. First ask yourself if anything the government does costs as little as they promise it will.
Then ask yourself if government programs ever live up to their billing when passed.
The answer has to be “no” on both accounts. Government health care will cost ten times what is expected and will severely lower the quality of care that people receive currently. Politicians argue that the current system is in crisis (not if you compare it to countries with socialized medicine), but passing government health care will guarantee political fear mongering and a health care crisis for politicians to exploit every election year. It will continually be criticized as inadequate and promises to “fix” it and calls for its abolition will happen every election cycle as those that depend on it will vote for people who scare them into thinking they will lose their precious entitlement. This will be no different than the scare mongering that happens with social security and the elderly. We will be stuck with a disaster that cannot be corrected.

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