ObamaCare: Government going 'beyond'

The idea of socialized medicine appears to be irking a lot of patriotic Americans these days. Why are we paying for our neighbor's health care who 'cannot afford' to pay into it while they smoke out every day or why are we paying for those who are not only only not paying into it 'the system', but who are not even legally living here in the United States?

What we are looking at is nationalized health care where the U.S. federal government will take charge of who pays, how much they will pay, what doctor the government approves them to see, and we know that doctor-patient confidentiality will now include some of the same creepers the TSA hires to gawk and feel up our children and ladies at our local airports. (Remember the haunting poster of 'My First Cavity Search'?)

Americans do not like the idea of having government control of anything because unlike the Midas touch, we are looking at failed public ventures at the expense of the common people almost as if the federal government is purposefully meaning to. Look at Ca$h 4 Clunkers, the infamous 'Stimulus' package, and the corporate bailouts that led to Occupy Wall Street. Let us not even get into the overseas military conflicts. The bottom-line is that the government is, shall we say, "on-a-roll", and we aren't talking about being on 'the Dean's List'.

If I can say 'perks' without perking up people's presumptions of the 'good side' of it, comparatively speaking, the U.S. military has had socialized health care for quite some time. In my experience, health care expenses were taken out of our monthly pay at $250 before we ever saw a dime of it in our account. This includes family's health care also. I leave the military and people are paying $600/month without being able to include their families. Something is definitely wrong here!

When Obama forged the slogan "Change we can believe in", it was focused on reformative policies in the U.S. financial sector. I don't believe anybody expected nor do they desire the radical change that has been taking place - a happy-medium would have been more like it. We all know about the 'change' people were left with when corporate executives took bailouts funds at the taxpayer's expense and now lending institutions give us the 'walk-on-water' evaluation before considering keeping our businesses alive and afloat. Many of us are still struggling while others have lost most everything. We do need an element of change, especially in our pocket books, but the government is not only giving us this 'reform', they are taking completely control of it and that is what we don't like.