Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

AMA “Rochambeaus” with Obama and Goes First

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During the past four months, Obama has publically demonized bank executives and automotive company debt bondholders when they didn’t fall in line on the Hopenchange Express.  Expect the same thing to happen soon to the American Medical Association:

As the health care debate heats up, the American Medical Association is letting Congress know that it will oppose creation of a government-sponsored insurance plan, which President Obama and many other Democrats see as an essential element of legislation to remake the health care system.

The opposition, which comes as Mr. Obama prepares to address the powerful doctors’ group on Monday in Chicago, could be a major hurdle for advocates of a public insurance plan. The A.M.A., with about 250,000 members, is America’s largest physician organization....

...If private insurers are pushed out of the market, the group said, “the corresponding surge in public plan participation would likely lead to an explosion of costs that would need to be absorbed by taxpayers.”

Expect Barack “Dr. Feelgood” Obama to do a press conference or meeting soon stating that the AMA is keeping “(made up bullshit number) of Americans from having the health care they so desperately need.”

This goes back to my basic assessment a few months ago of why Obama got elected.  Besides Bush fatigue, Obama spent his campaign selling the idea that people would be getting a whole shitload of goodies, but they wouldn’t have to pay for it--the “rich” would.  This is partcularly true of his health-care proposals--Obama sells the idea that having government-run health care would be more cost-effective, but underplays the fact that in order to do so, the government would be forced to make decisions on medical procedures and even our day-to-day health habits.  This kind of government interference in our private lives makes most people queasy, as geoff at Innocent Bystanders points out (geoff uses two charts coupled with comments to make his point, so click the link for the short analysis).

The problem with most Americans is that they want all the super-sweet goodies that living in a prosperous society should provide, but they don’t fundamentally understand that this stuff costs money, especially when the government is providing it.  When they get the sense that these costs are going to affect their own livelihood, they seem to be willing to go without, as this poll by Rasmussen seems to indicate. Obama is banking on basic public ignorance in order to remake society on the fundamentally marxist philosophy he’s been inculcated with literally since his birth, but he’s in such a hurry to do so, he may be overreaching.  Let’s hope that his obvious lack of patience ends up being the Achilles’ heel that puts the brakes on his agenda.

Comments

Posted by Hal_10000 on 06/11/09 at 06:03 PM from

The spineless AMA is already backing down.  The public option is the death of modern medicine.  The current plans would pay at Medicare’s rates—on which doctors lose money—and/or force doctors to participate.

Posted by on 06/12/09 at 01:20 PM from

Sad thing is I think we’ll end up with socialized medicine in the next decade or so at the latest.

The trend just seems to be heading there.  And it only takes on administration to get us stuck with this abomination forever.

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