Town Hall Gunman gets a D in fashion

All over the internet I’m hearing “Gun-toting Man Draws Scrutiny Outside Obama Town Hall.”

Many are pointing to the shirt, which read "It Is Time To Water The Tree Of Liberty" as an obvious threat to take the head of the President, but what I’ve gotten from it is that he just doesn’t know how to pick quotes.

If the shirt had used the Jefferson quote, “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” If he had said that then he would have been displaying a great message.

Maybe this was not the message he meant to send, but it is what America should get from his actions. Of course the Democrats will make sure that the message they send it, “Those crazy conservatives are willing to kill for Rush Limbaugh.”

Sending my blog to Washington

This post is just to announce that I'm going to write a few more article on health care, and then I'm going to send it to flag@whitehouse.gov and see if they respond to my message. This, of course, is about the administration asking people to send in websites that are critical of health care reform.

If they do I will try to have a conversation about health care with them, and I will post it here. Of course I am only a armchair politician, but I will do some research and see what questions I have. Maybe the administration can win me over... but I doubt it.

This is similar to when I use to just blog on Myspace. I had a couple articles where I said "terrorist" a lot (as well as other probably flagged terms) in hopes of getting more readers to my blog.

Note to Washington: Look at England

This is the first time I have used my blog as a response to a news article, but the article seems to foreshadow what America may be going through in five years.

Apparently England is five years ahead of us in trying to make an online centralized Health Care system. This sounds very similar to one part of the Health Care reform trying to be passed in Washington.

The Conservatives have said they would create huge cost savings for the NHS by scrapping plans for a central database of patient records.

Every patient would have a username and password and IT firms such as Google or Microsoft could host the information.

England has tried what we are about to do, and it is failing. They have found private businesses that will do the work for them, so why not take it? It would create more jobs by extending the online Health sector of the economy and achieve exactly what Obama is hoping to achieve with the use of taxpayer money (or more realistically, money on loan from China).

The system they are scrapping has cost over 12 billion pounds, so I hope the government learns from their mistake and doesn't throw billions more out the window in an already failed idea.

Health Care Reform: Passing the burden from businesses to government

Health Care is the biggest issue being talked about right now, and it seems like the citizens aren't for the reform that is being planned. That may change as time goes on, but right now the people of the nation seem to be wary of more spending because of how large the deficit has grown to.

What really bugs me about the issue is the fact that it shows exactly where my views with Obama differ. Both of us see that the insurance companies are the problem, but our methods to fix it are completely different.

I see insurance companies as a hindrence to the free market. With insurance companies paying the cost doctors and patiants are in the dark about the actual cost of what they are recieving. The insurance companies make the decisions instead of the patient.

Right now Obama is trying to fix it by taking away the insurance companies and adding the government. What bothers me about this is that it takes the patients choice to choose away even further, and now the government is who you go to for Health Care.

If it continuos to be an option that is fine, but if it is an option that is underwritten by the government every year than it won't be good because it would drive private insurers out of the sector. The more people to be under the government model the more it would have to be subsidized, which would just keep costing the government more and more money.

Obama is saying that that fixing health care is how we fix our economy. Right now it is hurting businesses because they have to pay for employees insurance. So, instead of strangling businesses we are going to strangle the government? That just seems bad.

Why not make it the individuals who have to save money for procedures and doctors visits? I'm sure hospitals would compete for yearly plans and stuff for normal services. It would save money because people could shop around for the best price, people could rate doctors online, and everything could be dealt with in the free market.

Right now the free market doesn't exist in health care, because the patients and the doctors don't know the prices of anything anymore it would seem. The government is trying to compound the problem, not fix it.