La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for November 07, 2009

Interesting, isn’t it?

..Fox is socialized news…

Fox is on. All right… Everybody panic!

And to think actual college graduates watch Fox Propaganda Channel.

(That is, if you’re generous to Liberty and Bob Jones ‘Universities’.)

I’m opposed to socialized medicine and I’m not looking for a Canadian passport. I’m also not taken in by the hype about a strain of flu which is no more deadly than any other strain of flu in any other given year. Take a few minutes to research influenza and see how many people in the US and worldwide die annually of other common strains of the disease ( roughly 41,000 per year between 1971 and 2001 in the US). The big hubbub over H1N1 is just another example of hysteria fanned by misinformation and half-truths. This is exactly the sort of reporting which leads to specious arguments for government intervention in healthcare. If government run health care is such a good thing and will save money, how come Medicare and Medicaid have gone over their costs estimates for every year since they were founded? And why hasn’t Medicaid done what the new healthcare intiative is supposed to do? And with Medicare/Medicaid already in place, why is there a need to build an entirely new bureaucracy to augment this healthcare plan which is supposed to already take care of those who haven’t the means to pay for their own care? And finally, how will a bigger, newer bureaucracy cost less than the current one? I’m college educated, I’m not a Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck listener, and these are the questions I have. If the healthcare bill itself is over 1900 pages, can you imagine how many pages of BS will be required to run this new program? Is this program the means for re-employing Americans who have lost their jobs? Give them government jobs running this omnibus monstrosity of a program?

Medicaid is limited to people with the lowest incomes. Why does private insurance spend so much of your money on things other than health care? And why do you want 40,000 Americans to die every year from not having health care?