The Matthias Chronicles: Why I oppose ObamaCare

My opposition to the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 or ObamaCare as its commonly referred to, is not political. My opposition to this Pelosi-Reid frankenstien is purely based upon substanance.

First, lets start with the unholy size of this monstrosity. One thousand and eight-teen page is simply ridiculous. There is absolutely no justifiable reason for this to be so blooming big. The tree-lovers and environmentalists should be tossing canaries every time the beast is printed. By now they've wiped out half a forest over this thing.

It took me TEN DAYS to post this entire bill to this blog with a rate of one page every fifteen minutes continuously. If I used a rate of one page every five minutes, it would have taken three and a half days to post it.

A health care bill should NOT be "for other purposes". This is clearly an attempt to make this bill so over bloated that no-one knows what's really in it thus anything can be put into it and slid through. At least half of the Congress and the Senate as well as the President have said they aren't even going to read it. It is very disturbing that they go out of their way to insure they are exempt from it and don't read what they make into laws.

Third, I've listen to all the rhetoric about "This page doesn't mean that" and "that's not what what is meant" garbage far too long. Anyone who knows a lawyer knows most of them are a bunch of greedy bastards and will take advantage of anything to line their pockets. If the items of controversy don't mean what they claim, then why are these controversial items even in the bill to begin with?

Fourth, this nightmare bill doesn't address the real issues of why health care costs have sky rocketed. There are many things that can be done that don't cost the U.S. taxpayers a single dime, but the Congress and the Senate won't do them. Let's start with the trial lawyers... Why won't the Congress or the Senate address the frivolous and fraudulent law suits?

Howard Dean had this to say about the issue: This is the answer from a doctor and a politician. Here's why tort reform is not in the bill. When you go to pass a really enormous bill like that, the more stuff you put in it, the more enemies you make, right? And the reason that tort reform is not in the bill is because the people who wrote it did not want to take on the trial lawyers in addition to everyone else they were taking on. And that is the plain and simple truth.

So, what Dean said is basicly this, we're all for fixing the health care system as long as its not inconvenient for them and it doesn't stop their money flow. The Congress and the Senate are putting their greed and selfishness above my health. I find that insulting and disgusting. David Freddoso and Kevin Mooney documented the extreme money flow of these pathetic bastard politicans as follows:

An Examiner analysis of the 15 firms on the National Law Journal's "2008 Plaintiff's Hot List" shows that for 2009, their employees have contributed $636,305 to federal politicians and PACs. Only $4,875 of that amount has gone to Republicans, meaning that the nation\u2019s top trial lawyers are giving more than 99 percent Democratic this year. The PAC for the American Association of Justice, the top trial lawyer lobbying group, has been marginally more balanced, giving Democrats a mere 96 percent of its $627,000 in contributions.

The next issue that would reduce the cost of health care is the amount that hospitals mark up and charge insurance companies for the medicines that patients require while they are hospitalized. This article talk about how hospitals actually come up with the prices they charge. A few years back, I remember reading and article about a hospital in Colorado charging five hundred and ninety-eight percent (598%) mark ups on patient medicines. Simply put, if a pill cost the hospital one dollar ($1), the patient was charged five hundred and ninety-eight dollars ($598). What happened to the laws regarding usury and price gouging?

Finally, most hospitals an a given city don't compete with each other because they are owned by the same mega-conglomerate. Isn't this a violation of the anti-trust and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act laws? By owning every private hospital in a city, these mega-conglomerates are rigging the prices patients and insurance companies pay.

Fifth, and for me, the most important. As many of you know, I was born with Cerebral Palsy, which has left me confined to a wheelchair my entire life. When I was growing up, my parents and I were constantly told that I was going to die and it would most likely be before I turned X age. My parent lived under the fear that their son may be dead when they wake up the next day. The doctors were the best in the fields of Neurology, Orthopedics, Cardio-Vascular, and countless other specialties I can't even begin to spell, let alone pronounce. By their standards, I should have been dead a hundred times over, yet here I sit writting this article. The text book doesn't always work and what my doctors said should happen never did. I had the best specialists in the country and yet, all they succeeded in accomplishing was to destroy my family because they couldn't accept that I was going to live in spite of all their grand knowledge and lack of faith and hope.

Growing up with the specter of death looming over my head constantly meant I messed out on a vast majority of activities most children get to experience during their development as well as adding a lot of stress to my life. The stress became so severe that I became a prisoner of the house I lived in as well as my own body. It caused a major rift between my parents and I. We haven't spoken in over twenty years and the last time I tried to rebuild the bridge was nothing short of Armageddon. It is an experience I plan never to repeat.

Yes, I have medical problems... I won't deny that, but I'm still alive and I've accomplished quite a bit in my life. Over all, my quality of life is pretty good considering what I deal with on a daily basis. This health care atrocity the Congress and the Senate what to pass is a direct threat to my well being.

There are things that can be done to fix what is broken in our health care system without driving the national deficit into oblivion. I'm all for fixing a broken system, but not at the expense of my health just so our politicians can further their political agendas and satisfy their rampant greed.

you stated you opposition the the health care that the President has proposed. my question is this would you have opposed the same plan if President Bush had propesed this?

Yes and also to John McCain's plan as well. Bush failed in the very same areas as this one does, it doesn't actually address where the escalation of costs are. I opposed HillaryCare for the same reasons (I did vote for Clinton both times). Rewritting the health care system and not addressing the very issues I mention is not fixing the problems, only giving them a different name.

It doesn't matter who the president is, as long as the true core issues of what is driving the costs isn't fixed, it will always fail. Fixing the core issues is the first step in fixing the entire system and controlling costs without sacrificing quality of care. Otherwise, it simple won't work in the long term as costs will still continue to climb.