Obama: The Candidate for Change

If we elect Obama in November there will be change, left over after your paycheck thanks to Obama’s fiscally dangerous changes.

One of the first changes Obama has promised is to roll back the Bush tax cuts. Not only does this mean less cash in your pockets on payday, it also means less money in your employer’s pockets. This means smaller (if any) pay raises, less new jobs, and possibly even layoffs.

Next Obama would change our health care system. He plans to give insurance to every American. He plans to offer comprehensive government sponsored health care, with subsidies for those unable to make co-payments. He also plans to heavily regulate the private health insurance industry. He will set maximum charges and co-pays, and require all private insurance companies to offer a policy to every applicant (no one will be turned down). Sounds peachy, right? No more worrying about whether or not a job offers insurance, no more expensive deductibles or co-pays, no more snobby doctors driving around in their BMWs and Lexuses (Lexi?).

But who will pay for the continued training, the overtime, the new technology? Well, we all will through our taxes; taxes that will again take money out of our pockets, stunt the job market and reduce salaries. Also, now that much of the money has gone out of the health care industry, so has the incentive for people to become doctors and nurses, to develop new drugs and medical procedures. Don’t forget, the reason that medical professionals make so much money is that they have to learn so much, go to school so long, and because they can’t make mistakes. Their job is very demanding; often our lives depend upon their skills.

Once the government begins setting the prices of drugs and medical equipment it will no longer be profitable enough for medical research and pharmaceutical companies to develop new equipment, procedures and drugs. They’ll cut back to only producing what they have already developed. Kiss that cure for cancer, or AIDS, or autism goodbye.

Of course, now that the government pays for our health care, it will be in their best interest to keep us healthy. They might start with an easy goal, say, to outlaw smoking. Next, maybe fatty foods or red meats, or carbs, or butter, or margarine (which is the good one now?), or whatever is the latest item on this week’s list of “unhealthy” foods. They might just tell you that if you don’t get in shape you won’t be covered. The point is, he who controls your health, will control your life.

Change for the sake of change is not only foolish, it could sound the death knell for the freedoms that make America great.