A Quick Take on Obama Care
I want to go a few different directions with this article. First, a few things about me. I am 24 years veteran and I have my B.A. in History. I currently work as an assistant in a school district and I am working on my Master’s in Special Education. I consider myself a somewhat moderate republican. With that being said I am a very strong conservative. I give my bio because it will be relevant later.
I have always enjoyed listening to and watching conservative news channels (Fox News). One of the only talk radio stations where I live is basically the Fox News channel. I bag my fill of Sean Hannity every afternoon because he is on when I get off work and I am doing most of my driving. I normally agree with Hannity on most issues but I have got to win convey with him on this. For the past month he has blasted Obama’s health care proposal. There is nothing wrong with that except for the fact that I cannot trust him anymore. He continues to talk about how dreadful the economy is when ever body who is anybody as it relates to the economy has come out and said that things are getting better. I mean everybody and their mom have agreed that there are positive signs in the economy. Do we still have a struggle ahead of us? Yes. Does anybody with a brain understand that things are at the least slightly better? Yes, except for Hannity. I have never heard him mention anything positive about the economy. Because of this fact I cannot believe what he says about Obama’s health care proposal. If you cannot even admit that there are sure signs in the economy than I cannot believe a word you say about this health care proposal. I will have more on this issue as it relates to Sean Hannity in an upcoming article.
I have a great job working in a school district but as an aide I do not make very great money. My employer offers health insurance but with my salary I was not able to afford it. For the past year my wife and I have had a policy through Aetna (a very good experience if I must say). Despite my meager salary we have always made health insurance a priority. My wife and I are basically living below the poverty level and because of the way we handle our money we have a pretty good life and health insurance (by the way we are both currently in graduate school). With all of that being said you can understand why my wife and I would most likely benefit from Obama’s health care proposal. Despite the fact that things could be easier on me with the passage of this bill I am still against it. I work hard everyday and watch what I spend so we can have health insurance. People living on fast food wages or minimum wage make around what I do and I do not feel sorry for them if they cannot afford health insurance because I know that it is possible to afford health insurance when you perform a very low salary. We already provide health insurance for the poorest people in our country and I even acquire that this program is not merited. There is no telling how many people on Medicaid could pick themselves up off the ground and improve their lives if they truly wanted too. The hard working people of America should not be forced to continue to carry the burden of lazy Americans. Medicaid was enough and this health care proposal only shows people that there are no consequences in life. Spend your money on whatever you want and then ask Uncle Obama to bail you out. If you ask me Obama is setting a dangerous precedent that will only get worse with time. If you provide health insurance to the lowest 10% of Americans in the social ladder and then extend it to the next 5%, before long our country will be providing health insurance to the lowest 35% of people on the social ladder. If you are wondering where I got my numbers, I got my 5% number of people from Obama’s speech to Congress. He stated that probably only 5% of Americans would enroll in Obama Care and I am assuming that a large portion of this 5% will probably be the next step up on the social ladder of those people who are not currently enrolled in Medicaid.
My third and final point is that there have been lies and malicious words from both sides of the aisle. Have some conservatives probably slanted the coverage a little bit when it comes to Obama Care? I would say definitely. I have kind of already covered this in my paragraph about Hannity but I wanted to hit on it briefly again. On the other hand you have had democrats and liberals call certain people who are against this bill horrible things. It is one of the biggest hypocrisies of our time. You had so many liberals and democrats call President Bush horrible things regarding the War in Iraq. The liberal media never once condemned these attacks against Bust and at times they even glorified these attacks. The same liberal media has resorted to all out warfare against the sometimes crazy townhallers that we have seen over the past few weeks. If the roles were reversed there is no doubt in my mind that the same liberal media would be glorifying the crazy townhallers if they were democrats protesting a bill against a Republican congress and president. The hypocrisy is through the roof on this issue.
To sum it up, both sides have acted immature and dishonorable at times. The next month is going to provide numerous quotes and stories from both parties and sides. We may glance wait on at this in a few months and say that Joe Wilson’s “You Lie” comment was just a minor piece in the bigger story. Right now the liberal media has basically made it the most important thing since; please forgive me, sliced bread. It will be interesting to sight how conservatives/republicans/those against Obama Care act if this bill does find passed with a public option. Will they simply lie down and accept it or will they try to execute their occupy country? One thing is for clear, the next few months will be very challenging.