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Edited on Tue Feb-10-09 06:03 PM by Peace Patriot
That is stupid thinking. That is the kind of thinking that stupid Bushwhacks engage in--bowing and scraping to the 'Great Leader.'
And it is unworthy of President Obama--a highly intelligent man who likes debate, likes to hear all sides.
I have been extremely worried about this "centralization" of all health records under the control of some federal "health czar" from the first moment I heard of it. Have we not learned any lessons at all about the easy abuse of centralized databases--whether they are "total information awareness" spy programs or voter lists in Florida? Or about the EASY manipulability of vote totals in 'TRADE SECRET' code voting machines?
This is health records thing is a very bad idea. For one thing, we don't have universal health care. We have an insurance corporation-infested health system, and Obama seems to want to keep it that way. So, who is really going to be making these decisions about which patients are expendable and which aren't? For that's what it comes down to--that's where the "cost-cutting" is going to be done--by intervening between you and your doctor, on decisions about your health, that cost the super-rich profiteers of the insurance industry too much profit, or Medicare decisions, in a similar vein, with bureaucrats or politicians wanting to cut costs to further their own ambitions. Barack Obama might put someone in charge of all this--with that kind of life and death power--who makes reasonable and fair decisions, and resists insurance co. and other such pressure. I don't know that he will, but he would be more likely to than, say, Jeb Bush. But what happens when Jeb Bush gets his fascist hands on this system?
I oppose it. It is very dangerous. And I suspect that it is also a technology corporation boondoggle.
The way to cut costs is to remove the insurance industry from our health system, place strict regulations on Big Pharma with regard to the price of medicines, and other such measures to take the crass profiteering out of the medical system.
Obama is a mixed bag, as to policies and appointments--but a fair, cool spring breeze compared to the fetid torture dungeon of the Bushwhacks. That is a fact. God knows I prefer Obama--voted for him, sent him money, and did everything I could to overcome this fetid election system, with its 'TRADE SECRET' voting machines, to get him elected. But we shouldn't let our political establishment get away with requiring approval of Obama, and everything he proposes, and every appointment he makes, because the Bushwhacks were so bad. He needs criticism as well as applause. We should also not fall prey to Limbaugh's mind-twisting tactics, where he latches onto something to kill the whole Jobs bill, when only one part of it is wrong-headed. He is a lying asshole. And he and his ilk don't give a fuck about anybody's health care--or anyboby's well-being--except their own. It's kind of like Republicans complaining about the budget deficit. It makes you want to tear your hair out. Who got us into this horrible mess, with a ten trillion deficit and counting?! They shouldn't be allowed a platform. They should in sack cloth and ashes, kneeling before the American people in penance. And some of them should be in jail. But that doesn't make a federal health records database any better of an idea--just because Limbaugh and other lying Puke traitors have picked up on it.
We've got to think for ourselves--and not in reaction of the absurd fascists controlling our public airwaves, and not in worship of President Obama, just because he is so-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o much better than Bush. He can be wrong. He can make mistakes. He admitted it himself. He needs our criticism, to bulk up the right side of internal and public discussions--the side that is in our best interests--so that he can make the right decisions. He isn't God. He isn't all-knowing. He is not an emperor--not really. He's just a man, much too surrounded with corporatist (neo-liberal, free tradist) advisers. And if we want our interests seen to, and if we see perilous mistakes in the making, we need to shout it out.
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