Chico Enterprise-Record
Posted: 11/04/2009 12:00:00 AM PST
Modernize the following quote from Joseph Goebbels and replace "state" with "Democrats": "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the Democrats can shield the people from the political, economic and or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the Democrats to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the Democrats." That defines their approach to the health care debate and the party itself.
Posted: 11/04/2009 12:00:00 AM PST
Modernize the following quote from Joseph Goebbels and replace "state" with "Democrats": "The lie can be maintained only for such time as the Democrats can shield the people from the political, economic and or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the Democrats to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the Democrats." That defines their approach to the health care debate and the party itself.
Those that have been critical of proposed plan have been demonized. Real reforms have been offered, allowing health insurance companies to compete across state lines, tort reform, tax credits and insurance collectives, all have been dismissed by the Democrats.
Instead, Democrats offered 1,990 pages of new government bureaucracy, obfuscating the costs and benefits with legalese. The truth, the Canadian and UK "government options" are failing. The Canadian Medical Association reports a cost of $14.8 billion in lost productivity due to rationed care and waiting lists. According to the CMA, Rationing as a method of allocating health care services is an abysmal failure, leading to irreversible damage, addiction to pain killers and depression. In the UK, 10 percent of the waiting list patients are on extended sick leave. Finland calculates the cost of waiting can exceed the cost of treatment.
Democrats have a solution for this too — provide end-of-life counseling, euthanasia and tax the evil rich.
— Eric Schumacher, Chico
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