Washington, be careful what you wish for

All of the talk regarding health care and the bills that were recently passed has been that Washington wants control of it. Yes, it's true, but there is also the part that we forget, and that is how we savvy Americans may wind up adapting to this. I had a firestorm of thoughts regarding my last post that I'd like to share.

This health care bill is about control, not health care. Well, it's also NOT about other businesses that provide other services and/or goods. almost a year ago, my family and I walked into the local Wal-Mart and found the place had been turned upside-down. They had sectored off the middle of the store so no one could see what was going on inside.

Several weeks later, all was exposed. A huge pharmacy was revealed. The place is practically 1/4 waiting room. "How odd!" I thought. Many other related corporations in the area have also provided a small medical facility for walk-in medical care. This is the future of medical care. The fact is, many medical services have found ways around the high cost of insurance already. Many private, affordable walk-in clinics are already in place.

So what does this health care law do to the newer private clinics? It's going to substantially increase their patient lists! those 50 and under already find Doctor's offices that take Medicare/Medicaid a cumbersome experience. Here is what no one talking about. We've already begun to adapt to the Government intrusions and don't know it yet.

What are Democrat legislators after all, but prostitutes for their votes? How many lobbyists gamed the health care law along with campaign money for the company's benefit? What's in the law may potentially benefit both Doctors AND larger corporations, AND hurt Democrats in the process. Why? BECAUSE THEY TOOK MONEY AND DIDN'T READ THE BILL!!! The retail & medical industry are already merging to save costs for themselves. It's only a matter of time before non-retail/non-medical industries begin to figure this out.

Let's think about what a Doctor's office entails. The space, the equipment, the staff, the insurance, the salaries, the paperwork. All time consuming, all expensive. What's the difference at a larger corporation, other than the medical angle? This law will force Doctors into owning other types of businesses for income. Wal-Mart will give the Doctor stock in the company, along with a salary for his medical services, and provide a hybrid staff with the pharmacist/other. Guess what? Wal-Mart can provide their own insurance too! Voila! problem solved! Feds say "you can't pay the Doctor that much." Corporate says "Fine, we'll give him more stock, buy a car & yacht for corporate purposes, and lower his salary." In the process, Doctors WILL GET WEALTHIER as stockholders in another industry!

The Feds want to control what the Doctor OWNS the health care law says? Fine! Let the corporation own it, and the Doctor as stockholder can use it! A hundred ways to skin a cat. Large retail chains will come to arrangements with insurance companies to get around some of these ridiculous laws. The desire to overcome the poison that this law is could potentially force us to build stronger private community ties.

There simply is too much medical need that is being addressed in America that is already substantially cheaper than what the Government can possibly control. Large corporations can buffer Doctors by masking medical needs with pharmacy and other needs, and a quiet campaign contribution (yes, it stinks I know) will make them go away.

Anyways, as the reading of this law unfolds, some of this may have to be modified, but I think you catch my drift here.

HEALTH CARE, AND THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

My better half, an experienced facilities manager, is very savvy at making situations work for large groups of peolple. She brainstormed this whole health care legislation, and came up with the following results. Please feel free to post responses, as we would like further input. When I read it, I immediately began to think about those corporations like Wal-Mart, et al, that have large pharmacies. Some have staffed nurses.

It also made me wonder: is this why some of these corporations seem to be indifferent to health care legislation passage? Our local Wal-Mart has ALREADY prepared to offer health services for walk-ins, 6+ months ago. Worker's Compensation, legal counsel costs can be substantially reduced as well. These companies already have staffed lawyers! Anyways, here's her thought:

My first sense of this HealthCare debacle is what if?? What if we don’t win in court against its unconstitutionality?  What if we don’t elect enough Congress seats to overturn and appeal it? What if we don’t have the majority in Congress to defund it?  Like I said that’s my first sense.  My second sense kicks in and tells me that it’s time to think about the loopholes in the bill and how to circumvent this ridiculous piece of legislation. I haven’t had an opportunity to read the entire bill, but I don’t think Liberal Congress did either. They spent their entire time pushing it and not comprehending it. Yes, lawyers poured through it.  Probably only on the legalities that opposition could bring forth.

I think about the big companies. Those that will lose the most. Those that will have to pay Millions in penalties and/or healthcare to fund this bill.  The scare that we will lose the companies that we have here that are still hanging on. All the people they will have to lay off in order to stay in business.  I expect many will be thinking outside the box on this.

 Then it comes to me. These large companies should bypass the mandate all together.  They are large enough that they could provide a doctor in their facility on call during working hours for their employees. I have seen this work first hand wherein large companies provided on site daycare for their employees.  Legislation states that they need to comply that they are providing healthcare for their employees.  Well no one says (at least I haven’t seen it) that they can’t provide their own healthcare. Rather than paying enormous insurance premiums and Million $ penalties it would make sense to me as a cost saving alternative. Staff a doctor, Staff a nurse, utilize some space in your facility for in house health care. Many basic services that you and I get regularly from our doctor could be provided here. Regular checkups, physicals, diagnostics.  Think of the possibilities.  As an employer I would rather pay a Doctor $200K a year and a nurse 50K a year than pay penalties or insurance.  Rather create your own type of healthcare. Something new. It could be done!!!  Set up a full diagnostic center. You can write off the staffing of the health clinic just as you would any employee.

The equipment ordered although expensive can be depreciated.  Blood Testing, Mammograms, X-rays, Well Woman visits, even children’s vaccinations and school physicals could all be offered to the employees and their families. I think this could only be viewed as a win win situation.  Productivity would be increased because employees are not taking off of work for doctor visits. They merely could go to the clinic for treatments. Companies could probably reduce the number of sick days they allot employees because they can now use the facility.  I know! I used to have to take personal and sick days just for annual doctor appointments.  I would guess about 80% of all doctor visits could be handled through this clinic. Of course the company would need to provide hospitalization for procedures and emergencies but that would be much less than providing a full package.

 I would think a company would rather take all the deductions themselves, offer their employees the opportunity of not missing work and avoid paying any penalties to the government.  Yes the possibility of a lawsuit always exists. But the cost of malpractice insurance can still be factored in well under the 1M$ mark for the first year.  My doctor has a sign out front before you enter that he does not have malpractice insurance. Maybe this would be something for them to explore.

Now many of you are saying that this allows the government to win and we are feeding the fascist movement.  Believe me you are doing the exact opposite. This health care legislation has never been about health insurance. This has been about government control and taking what they can from big business.  They are licking their chops at all the revenue they will be taking in from businesses. How many Caterpillar’s and Verizon’s are out there??? Many of them and many millions of money to come from them right into the coffers of the government. Better to beat them at their own game. Allow the company to offer a service, keep their employees at work, keep their employee moral up and keep their employees working than to fund government health care for everyone who is not.

Making sense of the political rubble

As I sat back this weekend and confidently watched my NASCAR Sprint Cup Bristol race, I was confident I had accurately analyzed the political outcome for the insurance industry takeover legislation, also known as "health care reform". No need to be too concerned, right?

After the race, I was thrilled to learn "demonpass" had died, knowing that Democrats didn't have the support they wanted in committee. Confidence builder. Right, right. What occurred the remaining 6 hours of the evening was a spectacle of deviance unfolding right before my very eyes.

The Senate bill was to be voted on that night the media reported. "What?" I thought. Shock came over me. Afterwards, media begins reporting President Obama stepped in and "made a deal" with Bart Stupak (D-MI) to get his vote on the insurance industry takeover bill. My wife was scrambling to make sense of what she was witnessing.

Through all of this, I did manage to hear snippets of reports that SEIU and immigration reform protesters were forming around tea party protesters at the Capitol (Love you tea partiers. God Bless you!) At the time, so much was going on, I couldn't make sense of it all. I was thinking fast and hard, but I got wore out before the night ended.

The result? A passed Senate bill made possible by the turncoat Democrat Stupak, whom we later found out never intended to vote NO in the first place, via a leaked year old video. A passed Medicare "Fix-it" bill, plus a Reconciliation bill to the Senate bill. What an amazing cluster-fuck.

My wife and I didn't want to believe what had occurred, and this led us all into mass confusion, but it was clear: everyone in America was being swindled. Just how this happened was best left to trusted radio heads that had staff to make sense of it all.

Monday morning. Coffee, coffee, radio. Let's start processing what occurred yesterday in Congress, being a Sunday during Lent, the Lord's day. Sobering. Reality? We got kicked in the teeth. Absorbing, emotional acceptance. This was a major political battle lost.

Despite that, ironically, just a few days earlier, I tweeted about Bunker Hill, a turning point in US revolutionary war history. To some extent, my political bloodhound was still validated. 34 Democrats, including Altmire (D-PA), a "Stupak 12er", voted with Republicans against the Senate bill. Total count? 219-212. A bill without committee review, making it a violation of House process. All the cheating Democrats did, still only resulted in 51.7% of the vote, less than Obama's election night victory.

My conclusion? No question, sneaky under-handedness won the vote, and the politics. The middle-class is now squarely in President Obama's sights. No surprise, I was aware of his dark upbringing, his motivations. Despite all this, Conservatives have a major moral victory here. Bunker Hill. The Tea Party shored up the opposition. The President had to cheat in order to eek out a win, and, proverbially speaking, you know what they say about cheaters!

As this week progresses, of note is the lawsuit ignited by Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli (God Bless him!), who is agruing that "insurance industry takeover reform" is unconstitutional on the grounds that it violates the Commerce Clause, Article 1, Section 7. As I write, 11 States have joined in the lawsuit, including Florida, with AG Bill McCollum. No doubt, this is of concern to Speaker Pelosi, President Obama, and Senate Majority Leader Reid, as I don't think they have a clue what kind of illegal shit they wrote into these bills.

Since President Obama and Speaker Pelosi have no idea what kind of poison is in the legislation they just passed, they didn't gloat in front of the Capitol on Sunday. Why? Because the court challenge is unpredictable, like everything else radicals do, shit everywhere and expect the rest of us to follow them around with toilet paper. What will the President do about this? Why, send Rahm Emanuel out to round up the Obamites in thug protest, that's what! Generate a result thru primitive human intimidation tactics. Really disgusting.

Another observation I made is that Democrat "pundits" acknowledge that these bills are garbage, but to them, that's OK! Why? Because "something needs to be done about health care". The mindset is pass OUR SHIT now and let the rest of us wipe their ass later by fixing the destruction they legislated! Really? So destroy the American medical insurance industry for the liberal-warped perception of "morality"? George Costanza would blush! How two-faced and bitter of liberals!

The next aspect to this is the SEIU & immigration protesters. This part is indeed sobering. While the President was using naiive, selfish Democrats in the House who only wanted TV time for free campaigning, his real reason for forcing the insurance industry takeover vote became abundantly clear: to shore up countering "immigration protesters", who are nothing more than Chicago style thugs, more than likely set up by the very same people that set up the AIG exec protesters, to begin advancing immigration reform.

Why is immigration reform so important to the President, you ask? Because illegal immigrants are potentially the President's, and many other politicians (hello Lindsey Graham) only chance at re-election. The polls are in the tank for the Federal Government, and rightfully so. There's no chance those polls will improve, considering the state the country is in.

Anyways, this is a lot to process, but Conservatives and Patriots are in the trenches now, and as long as we march on, harder, stronger, smarter, as the months pass, the Founding Fathers (and Ronald Reagan) will be validated, I predict. Don't let up!

(I'll try to update this blog with links in the coming days)