A Little More on Nationalized Healthcare

It’s been a week since I’ve posted something; and when I began writing this blog, I indicated that I would try to post something every day. Well, we know that’s not happening. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say. With so much going on in the world, there is certainly enough to post about, but I think I’ll talk about healthcare.

According to former Clinton advisor, Dick Morris, in a July 9 article in NewsMax.com, the current president’s proposal for health care reform will repeal Medicare as we know it. Senior citizens, a group that currently has the best access to healthcare, will now have the least access to healthcare.

With the rationing of healthcare and the government making the ultimate decision on what procedures you can have or not have, could the government deny a sixty year old woman treatment for breast cancer in favor of a thirty-five year old woman. It looks that way. Could an eighty year old with a broken hip be denied therapy that would make him or her mobile again? Shortly before my Dad died, he had hip replacement surgery and had excellent therapy afterwards that allowed him to walk like he was twenty years younger. Would he have been able to have the same care under a nationalized healthcare system? Probably not, and he would have experienced pain and immobility for the rest of his life.

In his same article Dick observes the irony of the facts that the elderly hounded George W. Bush when he proposed changes to Social Security that would have no effects on their benefits, but are strangely silent about the current president’s proposed healthcare reform doing away with Medicare. AARP, the liberal senior citizens group has been silent. What gives with these folks? Of course we know “what gives” with this group who claims to look out for the best interests of the elderly. It’s the same thing “that gives” with NOW in not coming to Sarah Palin’s defense when she was so viciously attacked during her Vice Presidential campaign or in not coming to the defense of Paula Jones and Juanita Broderick when they alleged sexual harassment by former President Bill Clinton. It’s the same old double standard that we conservatives live with day in and day out. I get frustrated, very frustrated.

Because this southern white conservative Christian woman has no one to help her fight her battles, I’ve had to fight them myself and that is what has made me strong.

By the way, Senator Finestein, do something with your hair. That fifties “roller-do” needs to disappear and never be seen again. In the twenty first century, who does hair like that anymore? Maybe she does it herself. I might be willing for a few of my tax dollars to go to finding her a hair stylist that will give her a new “do”. Looking at her is really painful.