Why It Makes ECONOMIC Sense....

.....to Pass the Healthcare Reform Bill Now

The Major Objections to the Bill are both economic and political:

(1) Economics: Cost, especially in relation to the National Debt
(2) Politics: Government's Role in Personal Matters

What Are the Deficit-Creating Costs of the Current Healthcare System?
We taxpayers pay for all of the healthcare now. We just do it in a way that we can’t afford.

The Money That the Nation Pays for Healthcare includes insurance payments, government payments, and individual payments. The source of every one of these payments is: the individual. Whether we pay for healthcare in insurance premiums—or in taxes—or in checks to the doctor—we pay for it all.

At the Moment, the Inefficiencies Are Bankrupting the System:

Inefficiencies in the System:
Out of all the dollars the American people pay, too-few go straight to healthcare.

Many Bills Are Paid by Government:
Many dollars pay for those who do not pay for themselves: seniors, the military, the poor. This money goes through government hands, which takes something like 3% in administrative costs.

Many Bills Are Paid by Insurance Companies:
Many dollars go to insurance companies, who pay healthcare, but also take something like 20% out in administrative costs—and in profits.

But All of the Bills Are Paid by All of Us:
The total, national healthcare bill—administrative costs, profits, and actual healthcare—is paid for by the total of us. It’s not really us or government. Because we, the people, are the government.

All of it Is “Our” Money

Every Penny Paid for Healthcare, by Americans, in America, is our money. Any idea that the flow of money between taxpayers and government changes the combined national “net worth” makes no sense. This issue is not an economic one. But it is a political issue.

Political Issues:
For some people, the politics of the situation argue against government involvement in healthcare delivery. Some also argue in terms of individual responsibility versus social responsibility. That's a discussion that we, as a people, need to have.

But Now Is Not the Time for That Discussion. Now, while America is in the greatest financial challenge of the last 80 years, is not the time. Too many Americans have lost their insurance—just because they’ve lost their jobs. And that’s not a lack of individual responsibility. And too many Americans can’t afford to pay for their own insurance—just because of skyrocketing premiums, insurmountable deductibles, low lifetime maximums, preexisting conditions, etc.

The Economics of Reform Are Comparatively Sound:
The economics of the situation—that we all are paying all of the bills—gives all of us the incentive to get those costs under control—as quickly as possible—so that more of our national wealth can go into the capitalist engine of wealth-creation—and balancing the budget.

Health-insurance Reform Makes Economic Sense:
We, the American people, cannot afford to keep wasting our healthcare dollars by diverting so much through insurance companies. The evidence that is does not work for America now is clear. The economic argument is sound.

America Cannot Afford to Wait:
We Must Pass Healthcare Reform for America
Now!

The Audacity of Disdain

What Have You Heard from Your Republican Congressman about the stimulus package currently working its way through the Federal government? What doesn't he like? What would he change?

What Conservative Ideal Would He Apply to make this stimulus package better?

What Changes Would It Take, to get your Republican Congressman to Take Action on behalf of the American people?

What Has Your Republican Representative Told You about the failure of Conservative ideology, as evidenced by six years of Republican-controlled government (2001–2007)? As admitted in former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s apology to Congress last Fall?

Let’s Examine These Tenets of Conservative,
Republican Economic Ideology:

If the Great Depression Was Ended by World War II, and not by FDR’s New Deal, why hasn’t the Republican-led War in Iraq boosted the economy this time around?

If Free Markets Do Not Destroy Jobs, but create them, why are all of America’s manufacturing jobs going overseas?

If Free Markets Regulate Themselves, why are so many corporate CEOs giving themselves huge bonuses at a time when their companies are posting record-setting losses, and when bankruptcies are stealing all value from under the noses of their shareholder bosses?

If Tax Cuts Make the Economy Thrive, why has the economy gone to pieces under Republican leadership?

Conservative Economic Ideology Is: Dead

Conservative Ideology as Administered under Our Republican Leaders Has Failed. The Republican leadership offers nothing to replace it. Instead, they line up for photo opportunities with the new President, negotiate changes to the stimulus package—including even more tax cuts—and then brashly vote against it. Unanimously. One and all.

What Do Our Republican Representatives
Offer Us Instead?

The Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives Have Nothing to Offer Us. Or so they would have us believe. And so they thumb their noses at the American people, by grinning big grins while thumbing their noses at the President.

Maybe These Representatives Think it Makes Them Look Good, and tough, and smart, to blind-side America's new President.

The Republican Congressional Caucus Has Nothing Left to Offer America. Instead, its members cleverly stonewall the President, while offering up nothing—not one single new idea—to get the economy going.

Smart? Or Heartless?

Maybe the Republicans Think They Look Smart, standing up there in the Nation's Capitol, thumbing their noses and grinning at their constituents.

Maybe with Their Families Safe and Their Jobs and Houses Secure, they don't have anything more-important to worry about, than trying to undermine the spirit of the American people, by trying to make the President look bad.

But in a Time of National Crisis, There's Nothing Smart or Clever or Funny about standing before the American people, while millions of us are losing our homes and our jobs, and there stand the Republicans in Congress, displaying a heartless audacity of disdain.

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Cars with License Plates Ending in Even Numbers could buy gasoline on even-numbered days.

Cars with License Plates Ending in Odd Numbers could buy gasoline on odd-numbered days.

Within a Day or Two of Starting This Plan in 1974, the gas lines disappeared. Once the lines disappeared, people stopped topping off their tanks all the time, and the shortage problem quickly abated.

In This Time of Economic Crisis and Gasoline Shortages, Americans working together can still achieve anything.

Thanks for Your Interest.