ObamaCzar’s Onerous ObamaCare

2010-03-08
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Unhealthy Power

It’s hard to fathom, but some lost souls still truly believe that ObamaCare, the umbrella term for Barack Obama’s unpopular, un-American healthcare reform, is about “care.” Let’s get real: ObamaCare is about control and power.

There are two kinds of power in this world: healthy and unhealthy. Healthy power is the desire and ability to control one’s own destiny. Unhealthy power is the desire and ability to control others’ destinies. A czar has both kinds of power, and that is un-American.

I cringe every time Mr. Obama utters disingenuous concern for 30 million people (including illegal aliens) lacking healthcare insurance. Do you doubt, given his self-admitted socialistic roots, that his real agenda is Big Government subjugation of Americans? Why else does he keep pushing a plan we reject?

One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it.

 

Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it.”

Ronald Reagan
Private Citizen
1961

Unabashedly Ambitious Bureaucrats

People who know history (especially American history), economics, business, human behavior, and world politics eschew ObamaCare — they see through its onerous foundation of blatant wealth redistribution.

Who, then, supports it? The lazy, the entitled, the naive, the uneducated, the foolish, and the great unwashed. Add to this list fake capitalists, charlatans, special-interest groups, globalists, and unabashedly ambitious bureaucrats.

If Barack Obama honestly cares about improving the lives of Americans, he would dedicate himself to shrinking Big Government — with massive cuts in spending and taxes. Reforming healthcare would be simple and cheap: Obama can lead the bandwagon for tort reform and interstate competition between insurance companies. He’s neither proposing nor doing it.

A citizen-centric country will outproduce a government-centric country any day of the week. In its heyday, America was the shining example of this maxim. A low-cost, thriving economy always puts money in people’s pockets, to do with whatever they want — including purchasing health insurance. This is not rocket science, and it is no secret.

Ah, now we have stumbled upon Obama’s hangup: independent, self-reliant people don’t need or want Big Government. But, the goal of Big Government is to make, and keep, its citizens as dependent as possible. That’s why Obama keeps selling ObamaCare while 10% unemployment persists. If unemployment drops to 5%, Big Government will lose power and relevance — great for America, bad for Obama’s agenda.

Teen Rebellion

As any parent can painfully remember, teenagers engage in nonstop rebellion. It’s exhausting. Why do kids rebel? They are expressing the most basic of all human desires: independence. A child who doesn’t rebel, in some way, is odd and headed for failure. Effective parents manage teen rebellion — in fact, encourage it.

As Stephen Covey wrote in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, we must evolve through three successive stages in life: dependence, independence, and interdependence. The parent who spoils his child, giving him total latitude to do, think, say, and have whatever he wants, is violating this rule and will end up with an irresponsible narcissist.

Conversely, exerting maximum control to quash all rebellion will break the child’s spirit and creativity, and breed lifelong dependence. A wise, patient parent, though, will channel and reward his teen’s quest for independence, bit by bit, until the child is fully equipped to think, feel, and fend for himself in the world.

Typically, parents who oppressively control their children will continue to do so into their adult lives, dictating where they should live, how they should live, and with whom they should live. Amazingly, dependent children, even as adults, won’t resist their parents’ subjugation. The bully is as pathetic as the bullied.

It Takes a Czar

In essence, Big Government is no different from the eternally controlling parent, and equally deleterious: it insecurely treats its citizens like children, while those citizens insecurely obey like children. Yes, the need to control others, and the need to be controlled by others, derives from deep insecurity.

Big Government — socialism, communism, Marxism, Nazism, progressivism, and fascism — is unnatural and must be forced on citizens. Unnatural? Yes, unnatural. As mentioned above, teenagers prove that people naturally want to be independent. It takes a controlling czar to force a government and government programs on people — and a subjugated people to accept them.

That’s why it’s sad and frightening to hear citizens expressing support for ObamaCare. At this moment, 10% of Americans pay 70% of all income tax, and 50% of Americans pay zero income tax. How did this happen? It’s simple. Pathetically, we have become a nation of dependent, entitled children attracted to Big Government.

What would the Founding Fathers think? They’d be disgusted, for sure. They didn’t risk their lives so that America, one day, would become a tyranny like the England of 1776. That’s why they signed the Declaration of Independence — to proclaim freedom from the shackles of Big Government.

The NoNonsense Bottom Line

Americans must decide whether they’re independent, freedom-loving adults or dependent children of Big Government.

If Obama, Pelosi, and Reid “succeed” in forcing ObamaCare down the throats of the American people, America, as we once knew it, will cease to exist — and the Founding Fathers will have fought in vain.

About the Author

Marc H. Rudov, The NoNonsense Man®, is a globally known radio/TV personality, relationship coach, speaker, and author of 120+ articles and Under the Clitoral Hood: How to Crank Her Engine Without Cash, Booze, or Jumper Cables (ISBN 9780974501727), The Man’s No-Nonsense Guide to Women: How to Succeed in Romance on Planet Earth (ISBN 0974501719), and a forthcoming book for women. The 2008 recipient of the National Coalition of Free Men’s “Award for Excellence in Promoting Gender Fairness In The Media,” Mr. Rudov is a frequent guest on Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor and Your World with Neil Cavuto.

Rudov’s books, articles, radio/TV archives, and podcasts are available at TheNoNonsenseMan.com.

Copyright © 2010 by Marc H. Rudov. All rights reserved.

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  • James

    Firstly no health care system is perfect.

    Secondly, third world countries around the world have similar health care systems to the US.

    There are two ways of funding a health system.

    One is directly through individual contributions, whether is by buying health care insurance or through direct purchase of health care treatment.

    The second method is indirectly through the tax system.

    Many are critical of rising taxes, yet year after year health insurance premiums continue to rise. So it is either rising health insurance premiums or taxation.

    Marc is critical of government interference, yet it is government interference that protects patients from negligence and exploitation and ensure in most case a hgh standard of care.

  • Virtue

    How does that happen? How does government protect you from negligence?…..It seems the best they can do is (upon a successful lawsuit) they can retroactively punish for negligence but not actually prevent anything.

  • jjtaup

    Fantastic argument, James! You’ve addressed the key issue that Marc raised in a masterwork of logical excellence. It’s almost as if Marc’s argument doesn’t even exist. I’ve never heard of or seen that technique in action before.

    Boy, oh, boy, I sure can’t wait to bend over for more, more, more gubbmint “interference.” They’re pertectin’ me from every quarter, witness the financial meltdown courtesy of Barney Frank.

    James, your argument is so stellar, let’s apply it to Wonderbread, oil changes, and insta-tans. We’ll keep those darned prices from creepin’ up on yah. Just nationalize. Da gubbmint’s gotcher back on that!

    Hey, it’s not like history has ever had anything to say about the nature of power and corruption. Nah, history only teaches one thing: that history teaches us nothing.

  • James

    “Its about power and control”

    Gee the Duluth Model on dv says that.

    To answer Marc call for a smaller government and less interference in peoples lives.

    Some examples i can think of are Somalia and Palestine.

    Two decades ago I would have support Marc’s position, but now knowing more about corporate corruption, particularly in the health care sector. I have changed my position.

    Marc makes a good point that power can be abused, whether it is by governments or by corporations.

    Having health insurance is no guarantee, that if you get sick they will pay your bills.

    There is testimony before the senate that treatment has been denied to people even though they have health insurance.

  • jjtaup

    …and then there’s that little problem of congress’ being authorized nowhere in the Constitution to so much as give out free samples of Bactine.

    You want healthcare? Get an ammendment.

  • Ken

    There’s a little secret they don’t want you to know. The only health care “crisis” is over capacity of Hospitals and Doctors. They’re charging more for each patient because they simply don’t have the volume to be profitable, and the insurance companies will keep paying them, as long as they can keep raising premiums.

    Rising unemployment has really effected health care in many regions because people no longer have insurance. Local hospitals HAVE to raise prices on the remaining patients to compensate for lost sales/revenue.

    As my wise health insurance agent told me, “There’s only one reason a hospital raises it’s prices and that’s when another hospital opens up next door.” Why? Less patients for more hospitals.

    Health costs are out of control because hospitals HAVE to charge more to stay in business and insurance comapnies don’t question it. There is no “crisis”, we’re actually TOO HEALTHY and have TOO MANY HOSPITALS!

  • James

    “shrinking Big Government — with massive cuts in spending and taxes. Reforming healthcare would be simple and cheap:”

    this is not logical.

    If for example the government reduces it’s expenditure on health care and reduces taxes then the costs are then transferred to the individual.

    This then will result in increases in insurance premiums. The government may save money, but the individual will not.

    Ken is right in what he wrote, in health where there is an over supply, and decreased through put of patients, costs need to rise in order to pay the bills.

    “Healthy power is the desire and ability to control one’s own destiny.”

    This part of what is known as “self actualization”

    However megalomanics, narcassists and other extremely self centered types take this to the extreme.

    Healthy power also involves a degree of empathy and willingness to help others in need and to consider and respect other people.

    We all live in a society that has a large number of overt and covert boundaries, that control our behaviour and our lives.

  • Squiggy

    James and Ken – you’re saying that the healthcare industry behaves differently than EVERY other industry. That competition causes prices to rise.

    Funny how that works.

    But now that obamacare has passed, that will all change. Prices will go down, and quality will go up. And maybe we’ll even all get free ponies.

    I can’t wait to see how my 401k will do now, cause it’s for sure my “social security” will disappear.






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