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NEWSPEAK AND OBAMACARE
By T Blogger | July 27, 2009
“Newspeak” — the systematic, government-driven butchering of the lexicon — does not just exist in the pages of Orwells’s 1984. It is in full force in the United States. It is in use by the media, politicians, pundits, entertainers, and increasingly by our citizenry.
Consider, if you will, the current “debate” about the push for socialized medicine. Almost everyone repeats the term “Health Care” as if it had some real meaning. It does not. Doctors, nurses and hospitals treat illness and trauma. “Health” requires no treatment. The more appropriate term is “Medical Care”, but even this is not the real subject of the current debate — that would be “Medical Insurance.” America has the best medical care in the world. That is why people from all over the world come here to receive treatment. Obamacare seeks to increase medical insurance coverage, but at the cost of further compromising medical care. It is a deal with the Devil, and it needs to be thwarted.
A few days ago, in a rare display of candor, the president revealed that he thinks doctors, nurses, hospitals and insurance companies are money-grubbing villains that need to be controlled. It is obvious to me that the reason we have so few American-born physicians in this country is the government’s involvement in medical care — primarily through medicare, medicaid, and financially unrealistic regulation of insurance companies. In order for the med student to become a licensed physician, a daunting array of educational hurdles must be surmounted, and many hundreds of thousands of dollars must be spent. He or she must spend countless sleepless hours learning the intricacies of the healing arts. The reward for all this work and study should include a substantial income. If anyone in this society deserves to get rich from his work it is the physician. But the government, in its infinite stupidity, seems to think there is something bad about making money for doing good work. Who wants to go through ten or twelve years of rigorous training with long hours and short money with no financial payoff in the offing? The answer is fewer and fewer Americans. The people smart enough to become doctors are smart enough to recognize a losing proposition when they see it.
The class warfare that Obama and his ilk continue to provoke has crossed one too many lines. We need more wealthy doctors and fewer wealthy community organizers. If you don’t agree with this, the next time you get sick, call ACORN.
©2009, Tom Weeks
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