Tonight's Health Reform Bill signing

Of course I'm against this bill for three reasons:

-- This will be the first time in American History that the FEDERAL government will be given the right to tell the sheeple of this country that we have to buy something or will be fined for not buying it. Some of the fascists in D.C. were even contemplating throwing us in jail for not buying health insurance.

-- It represents a growth of the Federal Government in our daily lives. I have no problem with what Massachusetts and Vermont did in terms of health reform in those states. But that's who needs to do this -- the states, NOT the Federal Government.

-- It doesn't truly address the real problems of health insurance and health care. The monopoly of the six largest insurance companies. Since World War 2 they've had an exemption from anti-trust laws. Or how about these CEOs of FOR-PROFIT insurance companies who make $20 or $30 million a year and get $100 million $200 million, or in the case of Stephen Hemsley of United Health, $744 million in stock options, while policy holders are being denied claims for coverage and even dropped from policies. Everyone should be allowed to have a health insurance policy. No exceptions. BUT, I do think insurance companies do have the right to charge more for people who are in less than ideal health.

As all of you know, I am a Libertarian by party affiliation. I am not a Libertarian ideological purist, but it is the party that best represents many of my beliefs. I must say though, that the Republican party and the Democratic party are both making gross misrepresentations of the situation at hand. The Republicans lie and say this is a "government take-over of 16% of the economy." No it's not. Government take-over of healthcare is the British system, wherein the Doctors are government employees and the government owns the hospitals, everyone pays into a National Insurance Service, and you can't see a specialist without first seeing a "gatekeeper" primary care physician. That's a government takeover. The Democrats won't even put in the public option. Germany and Switzerland have more of a government control than we will end up having because those governments dictate to doctors how much they can charge for services. And they don't have a public option in those 2 countries. It's all private non-profit insurance organizations.

The Democrats conveniently leave out the unconstitutional deals with favored states like Louisianna and Nebraska to get this bill to pass.

I like the ban on denial of coverage for pre-existing conditions. I like the state-based exchanges. I like the tax subsidy on insurance purchases up to 400% of the poverty level.

BTW, the IRS is unconstitutional. Hehe. Thought I'd throw that in. Not relevant to this discussion but it's true.