Munchausen Syndrome is a condition in which a person repeatedly acts as if they have a physical or mental disorder when, in truth, they have purposefully caused the symptoms. A worse manifestation of this syndrome called Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, or MSP, is when the patient inflects injury on others so that they can appear to have come to the rescue and are the “hero” when they are not; this, I’m afraid, defines congressional democrats on healthcare.
I’m not suggesting that the democrats are knowingly inflicting harm, though they are, but the reward to them in passing this legislation without full regard to its impact, is suspicious. They are so looking forward to the signature parade at the White House, that they can’t see past the process. In the legislative sense, this is MSP at its worse.
The U.S. jobless rate for October jumped up 0.4 percentage point to 10.2%, the highest level since April 1983. The government’s broader measure of unemployment shot up even more, rising half a point to 17.5%, still with this in front of them, the democrats insist on pushing through their vision of reality. The democrats are driving this train past all the alarms and warning of dangers ahead, and we’re stuck facing the results of the inevitable derailment.
This future is sad, easily predictable, guaranteed to get worse and fundamentally unnecessary. Perhaps this will help:
Presume for a moment that you have a headache because someone is beating you on the head with a stick; you can: a) take medication for the headache or b) take away the stick. The government chose “a” (pass a huge healthcare bill and taxes to support it); I recommend “b” (lower the tax burden, don’t add to it, and free up capital investment in healthcare by reductions in capital gains.) By no means should the government be messing around in an industry of which they understand little, that was responsible for 56% of US job growth from 2002 to 2006, and an industry in which America has a strong comparative advantage that doesn’t outsource well.
Healthcare is complicated, as an RN, I can assure that is true beyond anyone’s imagination. Should the House and Senate bill come into law in any fashion as currently seen, we are in grave condition indeed. We all need to begin doing all we can to stay as healthy as possible, because should you get sick, the last thing you will want is healthcare.
Tom
