Howard Dean blatantly admits what many have been saying since yesterday and something that I also wrote about. The White House is planning a Trojan Horse, which means, presenting alternatives that simply change the semantics of the bill to attempt to market it or sell it to the American public. Howard Dean says this backtracking/concession regarding co-opos is nothing more than political gaming, and there will be a public option. He telsl us that the Senate will not pass a health care bill with a public option. The public option language will be put back in after the fact. That’s why nobody should be fooled by terminology like co-ops, health insurance reform, etc. This = EPIC FAIL.
Follow this link to watch his interview from this morning on PMSNBC’s Morning Joe. [due to my lack of technological abilities I could not embed the video into wordpress, so instead, I included a picture of Howard Dean.]
The Crabby Constituent 
I have long been worried about the non-profit organizations effect on our country. Their ability to operate under the radar is so dangerous that I am wondering if the public option is actually better in that we can have everything out in plain sight.
Howard Dean is no better or smarter than Obama. He has pulled some really stupid stunts himself over his career in politics as Obama is doing.
I don’t trust any one of them. But, one thing is for sure….this bill will never be passed for that just that reason alone..no one trust the government anymore.
I heard the same line of thinking this morning on Bennett. Her’s a great link to follow,
http://www.defendyourhealthcare.us/
I heard the same line of thinking on Bennett early this morning. “Let’s not get distracted by semantics” as you point out!
Great link to follow.
http://www.defendyourhealthcare.us/
So much debate is going on pointing out how bad the collectivist approach of the Obama/Democrats will be for our health care, but where is the advocacy of a workable solution?
Here is a brief outline of where we need to go with US health care:
The Modern Health Care Solution
We need to reset our health care system back to a free-market, patient-driven system. Every other successful part of our society runs this way- why not our health care for goodness sake?! We need:
1. Market-based pricing of health care. We need medical Care/Service/Procedures priced up front like everything else in our society- not the price/cost black-boxes of today’s employer and government-subsidized health care.
2. Minute-clinics and similar no-appointment, transparently-priced clinics are going in the right direction of delivering this concept:
http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2006/01/23_zdechlikm_coninfo/
3. Just like with the fair, portability of pre-tax 401k’s, we need fair, portable pre-tax health savings accounts for everyone to save their own money over time, make their own decisions on health care, and pay it with their own money.
4. Make health care ‘insurance’ back into actual insurance. Couple health savings accounts with high-deductible catastrophic health insurance policies that people buy like they do for life insurance or car insurance.
5. Reform the medical malpractice system and the laws driving it. In some cases, up to 25% of the cost of individual health care is extra tests and procedures run by doctors to ‘bullet proof’ themselves from malpractice lawsuits.
The above approach gives everyone the access, proper control, and choice over their health- not the opposite helplessness dictated by some far away, faceless bureaucrat.
Try using the to embed your video…. that usually works for me 🙂