Special Interests Vested on Both Sides of Health Care Debate
This is the status quo in America
By Andrew deRenzy
Thursday, August 20th, 2009, 15:24Handouts, grants, protectionism cause special interests, lobbyists, and corruption. PhRMA is agreeing to front $80 Billion so they can protect their stake is selling drugs in America. If they hadn’t, Obama might have gone the route he said he would in the campaign, buying drugs overseas for cheaper. PhRMA is taking a side to protect itself. Grants are given out and groups apply, often leading to groups like ACORN or someones friend being a recipient. Too much room for corruption in this system. Lobbyists are paid big bucks to go down to DC to tell Congress how to make their decisions, what happened to them listening to the American people? Obama wants to protect this status quo, he doesn’t want to actually listen to us. He will ram it down our throats knowing full well we don’t want it, just like he would kill grandma.
Typically the left allows the poor to vote against the rich, or they tap into our emotions, to get us to pay for the unfortunate. The right votes for corporate handouts, appeasing lobbyists, protecting certain industries. Both Republicans and Democrats are guilty of everything. Reform is needed, we cannot allow legislation that would benefit one group at the expense of another. Why should San Francisco be drawing money from NJ to fund their problems? How is it beneficial to me to be taxed so the poor can receive a welfare check or food stamps? It’s as ridiculous as taxing left handed people to give money to right handed people. Income tax has allowed this government to run rampant. We lost our country in 1913 when the direct tax of income tax no longer had to be apportioned to the states. Our sides special interest is getting our country back.
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Jon says:
August 21st, 2009
9:05 pm
You are right that there are special interest groups on both sides of the health care debate. For the most part, the democrats are picking on the insurance industry and the average citizen with their plan. I don’t think that the private insurance industry should be given any awards, but I am smart enough to realize that simply adding a public health insurance option is not going to accomplish what the Obama administration wants to accomplish. The first thing that needs to happen is Tort Reform. Look at the state of Texas, which has passed at least limited measures of Tort Reform for the healthcare industry. Liability insurance for doctors in Texas is 27% lower than in the rest of the country, due to the medical malpractice lawsuit limitations. In turn, healthcare is cheaper, insurance premiums are lower, and more people are insured. Maybe, just maybe, the democrats could take a hint from that. After we take care of tort reform and fraud, then we can take a look at the private insurance industry.