Once every few months, I get an email forward to me from my fairly conservative aunt, a retired woman who I've clashed with a few times in the past. I think by now we know we can't change each other's politics, a realization that made things easier on both of us.
So I was surprised to receive an email from her last night -- but it has a very odd twist that goes too far for even her. She asked me if it was a known hoax, but it's not from anything I've seen so far.
It's a conservative plea to use this Obama health-care initiative as a way to also take on Medicare. It's apparently from a group called "Medical Freedom For All," though I haven't found any real presence for this group online.
It seems like it could be legit, I really don't know.
Friends,
We've finally got the bad guys on the ropes. Despite a full-court press from Barack Obama and the Democrat Congress, their attempt to socialize our health-care system is failing.
As you know, this is great news because a socialized health-care system will drive up the taxes of good, hardworking Americans, just so we can cover people who will benefit from the system, including illegal immigrants. I know I don't want to pay more to cover these people, and neither do most Americans. Only the radical Democrat Congress, led by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, would dare to waste taxpayers' money so recklessly.
Even worse, though, is that the Democrat plan will reduce the quality and availability of health-care. As we've seen in Canada and other countries that have tried to institute a government-run health-care plan, people who are in crucial need of procedures in these countries sometimes have to wait months and frequently cannot get care in time. Simple math dictates that any socialist government plan would require a rationing of the services and doctors that are freely available today. And as you've all by no doubt already seen, the Obama plan is going to "encourage" senior citizens to end their lives rather than taking any health-care. Let's not put our seniors on the path to mandatory euthanasia!
It's great news that this information is finally getting out there, despite having a liberal media and Democrat-controlled government trying to cram this down our throat. But it presents us with a great new opportunity; one we've wanted to do for years and years.
It's clear that the government has no place providing medical care, as this discussion is reminding Americans. And yet, for some reason, we continue to turn a blind eye to Medicare, which is a completely inefficient socialist plan to provide medical care to our seniors. As we all know, the government is not as efficient as the competitive free market at providing health-care, and now the door is open for us to re-think Medicare. Frankly, it needs to go.
Seniors are no more entitled to free health-care than anyone else is. It's the personally responsible thing to set aside money for retirement, and those who didn't should not benefit from the responsible ones who did.
Now is the time to begin a multi-pronged attack against socialist health-care. This includes the Obama plan, but it also includes Medicare.
We may not receive the option to take this on again any time in the near future, so to ignore it now would be a grave mistake.
In the coming days and weeks, we'll start to lay out our full game-plan, but we suggest mentioning this to friends and neighbors now. Medicare is a touchy subject, so we should get people familiar with the idea before we spring our full PR campaign into gear.
Thanks for everything you do,
Erik L. Cohen,
Medical Freedom For All
It seems a little far-fetched, but at this point, I have no idea how far the purists (or lobbyists) will go for a "free market."