Senatorial Buy-Offs, Health Care Reform, & Liberal Disappointment

A left­ist use­ful idiot gains some insight:

It looks like there are now sixty votes to pass the Sen­ate bill with­out any Repub­li­can sup­port. After gut­ting the bill to pro­tect the insur­ance indus­try to appease their Sen­a­tor, Joe Lieber­man, it was time to buy off Ben Nelson:

Sen. Mary Lan­drieu got the “Louisiana Pur­chase.” Sen. Ben Nel­son got the fed­eral gov­ern­ment to pick up most his state’s future Med­ic­aid tab — forever.

As part of the deal to win Nelson’s sup­port, the fed­eral gov­ern­ment will pay for Nebraska’s new Med­ic­aid recip­i­ents. It’s a pro­vi­sion worth about $45 mil­lion over the first decade. (Deal on health bill is reached).

It is a mir­a­cle that more Sen­a­tors don’t hold off on promis­ing their vote until they get more in exchange. (Ben Nel­son Makes It Sixty–At A Price).

A pop­u­lar post on this blog is: “535 Peo­ple in Wash­ing­ton Decid­ing the future of YOUR Health Care.” It is pop­u­lar because it has an eye grab­bing head­line — think about it: 535 peo­ple decid­ing what’s best for you.

Lib­er­als are now shocked, shocked, that one per­son, one sin­gle per­son could sink their “hopes and dreams:”

At this point, Lieber­man seems pri­mar­ily moti­vated by tor­tur­ing lib­er­als. That is to say, he seems will­ing to cause the deaths of hun­dreds of thou­sands of peo­ple in order to set­tle an old elec­toral score. (Joe Lieber­man: Let’s not make a deal!).

Yup. This is exactly what hap­pens when you sup­port shift­ing vast power to Wash­ing­ton D.C.

Dear lib­er­als, you had “dreams and hopes” and they all rested on a few, on a select, pre­cious, spe­cial few, on some­thing bet­ter than the mar­ket, and … it all betrayed you. It was sup­pose to “take care of you.” But it suc­cumbed to some­thing you hate, some­thing you believed it was  spe­cial enough to rise above: self-interest.

You, dear use­ful idiot lib­eral, rejected, rejected with­out devot­ing even one brain cell, rejected out­right, the propo­si­tion that “the mar­ket” could  hold a solu­tion to the prob­lem of rapidly increas­ing health cost (which has put insur­ance increas­ingly out of reach of more and more people):

Other than for the most extreme, even most lib­er­tar­i­ans grant some role for gov­ern­ment. There are some things which are just bet­ter han­dled by gov­ern­ment than by the mar­ket. This includes police pro­tec­tion and national defense. Sim­i­larly most of the indus­tri­al­ized world has found that financ­ing (but not nec­es­sar­ily deliv­ery) of health care is either best han­dled by gov­ern­ment, or at least requires con­sid­er­able gov­ern­ment involve­ment. (Gov­ern­ment And Financ­ing Health Care Cov­er­age).

This is what you rejected:

It is not from the benev­o­lence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our din­ner, but from their regard to their own inter­est. We address our­selves, not to their human­ity but to their self-love.

As every indi­vid­ual, there­fore, endeav­ours as much as he can both to employ his cap­i­tal [so] that its pro­duce may be of the great­est value; every indi­vid­ual nec­es­sar­ily labours to ren­der the annual value of soci­ety as great as he can…. By pur­su­ing his own inter­est he fre­quently pro­motes that of soci­ety more effec­tu­ally than when he really intends to pro­mote it. (Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776).

You are idiots. You out­right rejected, on ide­ol­ogy alone, one of the foun­da­tions of mod­ern west­ern thought.

Many stud­ies have shown that con­ser­v­a­tives, which I am not (and, I’m assum­ing, lib­er­tar­i­ans, which I am one) are hap­pier than lib­er­als. Lib­er­als are unhappy because noth­ing just ever quite works out for them, and this is why:

You are chil­dren in the bod­ies of adults.

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More read­ing:

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Bet­ter, more afford­able health care requires free-market reforms: the free­dom to pur­chase health plans across state lines; tax reforms like “large” health sav­ings accounts; mak­ing health insur­ance portable, con­trolled by the indi­vid­ual rather than gov­ern­ment or an employer; mak­ing med­ical licenses portable, and more.

To read more about real solu­tions to the prob­lem of ris­ing heath care costs, see:

Pro-market Alter­na­tives to Demo­c­ra­tic Health Care Reform

See also:

• Why Isn’t Gov­ern­ment Health Care the Answer?
• What Should Be Done?
• FAQ: Consumer-Directed Health Care

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Tagged as: BIG GOVERNMENT FAIL, Bigger Government Health Care