Abject Geekery

A recent poll conducted by NPR, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health shows that people by and large feel that government is not listening to them in the health care debate.

The article generated from this poll asserts that while people wildly disagree about what if anything should be done in terms of reform, one thing that is apparent: the elected representatives are not doing a very good job of representing.

But of course the article, like the rest of the media, misses the real story entirely.

The story is how ideology and reality don’t always match up.  The Democrats are fond of the phrase “pay-go” short for “pay as you go” a policy that decries deficit spending.  It is the acme of foolishness to believe that spending trillions in deficit is some how “Pay-go” and yet this is exactly what the Obama administration is trying to sell to us.

If you ask the vast majority of Americans they will tell you something is wrong with health care system in the United States.  Many will say that health benefits tied to employment are a link that punishes the unemployed.   Many will also question the mountains of paperwork and bills.

Question: what other transaction does one participate in where for months afterward bills are received?

One of the loudest complaints by politicians is that the private health care industry wastes large percentages of money (anywhere from 25 to 40%) in administration costs.  It is claimed that a public industry (oxymoron?) would be more efficient administratively.  But where has the government proven this principle in action.  To wit if 50% of the health care spending is government backed, then isn’t government at least 50% responsible for the administration problem?  If the government wasn’t responsible that would mean that private monies carry an even higher administration cost, something that even the most ardent single payer proponents won’t admit in public.  Not because they don’t want to of course, but because it would easily be proven wrong.

I am willing to bet hat the people who are the loudest supporters of “single payer health care” are also largely the same people who don’t pay taxes now, so they are already comfortable idea of living off the labor of others.  When a rich person does that its called slavery.  When a poor person does it is called “social justice”.  What a mockery of the words social and justice.  What is so social about thievery?  What has thievery got to do with justice?