Don't let this drag on too long!

Like the majority of Americans, I am against H.R. 3200, the bill about socialized medicine. It will cost trillions of dollars, ration care, and leave doctors high and dry. If you want an example of how socialized medicine will ruin America, think about the 'Cash for Clunkers' program. First of all, that's a degrading name for people like me who must depend on old cars. The way the pro-gram works is that you can receive up to $4,500 when you trade in your old car to a dealership and purchase a new car. That sounds like a bargain, but there's more to the story. The dealers have to fill out an application that's 20 pages long on each clunker. Talk about paperwork. Then the government will give the dealers the money within a week. The problem is that the gov-ernment is not compensating the dealers for the clunkers. I've been watching Fox News. Many dealers have complained that at least 90% of the money they were promised hasn't been given to them. Why all the delays? It's because the government by its very nature is slow to respond to anything. If they can't deliver promptly with cars, imagine how bureaucrats will screw up our health care.

Let me give you an example of this with our health care. Imagine we had socialized medicine and the government set up a program called 'Money for Babies'. The program will compensate ob/gyns $1,000 for every baby they deliver. If an ob/gyn delivers 300 babies a year, he should receive $300,000 from the government. But in reality, let's say that the doctor has to fill out a form 20 pages long for each baby and deliver it to the government to get paid. But the gov-ernment can set its own strict rules. If the doctor doesn't fill the form out completely, or makes a spelling mistake, or doesn't fill it out in time, the government might hold back on payment. This would result in a huge black market in the health care industry. Patients will receive inferior care in places that are totally inadequate. It would create total chaos.

Saul Alinsky, the grandfather of radical activism and the author of 'Rules for Radicals', said that anything that drags on too long becomes a drag. The ball is in President Barack Obama's court. He'll be speaking in front of a joint session of Congress next week to push his health care plan. If I were advising him, I would tell him that if the Democrats can't pass universal health care in
September because it would cause a huge backlash with Americans, then he should drop this like uranium-235. Then he should wait to pick this up again in 2011 with a new Congress after the dust settles. There is such a thing as trying too hard. Sometimes it's better to change strategies
to prevent further damage.

G.J. LaRouche, 3 September 2009