The entire health care issue has gone bonkers. 

MSNBC runs an edited video of a guy packing guns at a protest and insinuates its a racial issue, conveniently ignoring that the unedited video shows this to be a black man wearing guns, not a white one.  Should they be called MSDNC?  Nice to see the race baiting continues.

And some mutter about the crazy conservatives also conveniently forgetting some of the gun toting demonstrators are FOR health care reform.

And then there is the whole notion of reform.   If you protest the health care takeover you are against reform completely, but no one on the left apparently wants to admit there is a huge area of other options between do nothing and Government takeover.

John Mackey the CEO of Whole Foods runs an editorial detailing many of those options and now faces a boycott by liberals because he dares to suggest we can fix it without socialism.

Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits. Now employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but individual health insurance is not. This is unfair.

Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines. We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.

Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying.

Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. These costs are passed back to us through much higher prices for health care.

Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost. How many people know the total cost of their last doctor’s visit and how that total breaks down? What other goods or services do we buy without knowing how much they will cost us?

Enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy and enact reforms that create greater patient empowerment, choice and responsibility.

Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren’t covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

And, if you say that a government takeover of the health care and a single payer system is socialist, which by definition it is, you are evil.  And they all pretend it is not about a single payer system when all the key players are on record stating clearly that they want one.

Demand to have a debate and you are accused of hindering the debate.  Only by sitting down and shutting up are we making this a bipartisan debate.

Then Nancy Pelosi accuse conservatives of being Nazi’s because of some signs calling her a nazi.  And the signs are actually being carried by Lyndon LaRouche volunteers.

Wonderful.

Here is a fun one:  Axelrod is having a seminar on integrity in the public service, apparently forgetting his own special interests, which even MSNBC has finally noticed…sort of.

Nice that in a health care debate we can also listen to fake doctors.

Does any of this bother you?

Wouldn’t it be nice to hear spirited yet respectful and truthful debate?

And if the politicians really wanted to fix this, wouldn’t they want to take their time and do it right?

I guess not.

I give up trying to see any sense, I think I will go watch the Hannah Montana movie…it makes more sense.

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