For those of you who don't know me, I'm the guy who blogs here.....or, how Hillary wants to bloat your government yet again!!!!!

Honest.

Really.

I'm Rob, and I've neglected my blog.

(therapy group responds...."Hi, Rob!!")

Let's see....life has been spent in the following places lately:

--Work
--Bed
--Work
--Work
--Bed
--Press Box calling football game
--Collapsed on recliner
....watching "The War", or Beth Moore, or ESPNews.....

...but with no energy, no fire, no desire to blog.

My philosophy on blogging, as I mentioned in August, is like the Moody Blues' philosophy on recording albums; they do it when they have something to say. If I'm absent awhile, part of the reason will always be I currently have nothing that fires me up enough to fire up the laptop.

That doesn't mean I don't miss blogging. I love blogging, my blog, and those I've come to enjoy and read myself.

So, bottom line--it's nice to be home. Let's rant. :)


ITEM: Hillary Clinton's Secret Partner in the Government Takeover of Health Care!!!

---THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY ITSELF. My 2008 Health Insurance "Enrollment Period" has been as much fun as stabbing yourself in the eye with a pencil. Which would, of course, require medical attention, and the vicious cycle would go on.....

The process of signing up has become so complex, so time-consuming, so confusing, that I and others are convinced the real purpose of this maze is for consumers to throw their hands in the air and yell, "I QUIT---GIVE ME WHATEVER!".

And, of course, the era of "you can only have the best health care if you're healthy" has definitely begun. You know, if you commit to having a "health coach" call you and help you and participate on a sports team or join a gym, etc, etc.....

I never saw the term "invited" in an Enrollment book until this year. Invite? What?

The days of Capitalism (you know, if you can afford the best insurance policy, you can buy it!) are fleeting away.

AND----this is exactly what Hillary Clinton had in mind in 1992-93 when she first tried, in the ELECTED position of First Lady I might add, to socialize medicine.

And don't EVEN TRY to tell me it wouldn't be. When Big Brother tells me what doctor I have to see, what hospital I must go to, etc.....that's Socialism. Ask anyone who lived in the Soviet Union. You remember the Soviet Union, don't you?

But see....here's the difference between 1993 and 2007.....back then you could enroll for your health care plan for the next year in about 30 minutes. Getting a referral to a specialist was your biggest worry.

Now? Simple. Let's frustrate the masses with high prices and confused care plans, and one day they'll just say, (like I said earlier)...."I QUIT! GIVE ME WHATEVER!"

And Hillary will be there to answer their frustration.

BUT IT'S NOT GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE!!! They say.....

Don't you understand doublespeak!!??!!

Here's a quote from her website:

The American Health Choices Plan gives Americans the choice to preserve their existing coverage, while offering new choices to those with insurance, to the 47 million people in the United States without insurance, and the tens of millions more at risk of losing coverage.

The Same Choice of Health Plan Options that Members of Congress Receive: Americans can keep their existing coverage or access the same menu of quality private insurance options that their Members of Congress receive through a new Health Choices Menu, established without any new bureaucracy as part of the Federal Employee Health Benefit Program (FEHBP). In addition to the broad array of private options that Americans can choose from, they will be offered the choice of a public plan option similar to Medicare.

A Guarantee of Quality Coverage: The new array of choices offered in the Menu will provide benefits at least as good as the typical plan offered to Members of Congress, which includes mental health parity and usually dental coverage.

Now a point or two....

1) Members of Congress receive their health care benefits from....ah....the Federal Government. So, if I start getting their plan, my plan will be authorized by....ah...the Federal Government. Formed by the Federal Government. Controlled by the Federal Government.

2) No "added" bureaucracy. Listen to yourself!! Who needs "new" bureaucracy when you can take the current one and bloat it to a fare thee well. Of course, if one is bloated, don't they then need quality health care? Sorry, got off the subject. Taking care of the health of humans isn't the issue here.

3) Yay! I might get a "public" option! Who gets the invitation to Congress and who doesn't?

Finally, under the heading "Promote Shared Responsibility", here is what the "individual" (you and me) is responsible for:

Individuals: will be required to get and keep insurance in a system where insurance is affordable and accessible.


Excuse me? Required? What if I don't want health insurance? I'm independently wealthy and choose to pay my bills on my own. What do I do? Pay a fine?


AND IN CLOSING.......

One more sentence from Hillary's web-house of horrors.....

Over half the savings (alleged in overall health care costs, parentheses is my commentary)come from the public savings generated from Senator Clinton’s broader agenda to modernize the heath systems and reduce wasteful health spending.

If Hillary can't spell "health", how can she be trusted to take it over?