The Javelineer

This chart is profoundly disturbing.

Many people think that defense spending causes our huge budget deficits. Not so.

Assuming only linear growth, entitlement spending alone will exceed tax revenues by 2052.

Out. Of. Control. Liberals policies will destroy our country.

This make sense. Rarely, do people leave the US for treatment. Often, people enter the US for treatment. Think about it.

If you’re not rich and you get sick, in which industrialized country are you likely to get the best treatment?

The conventional answer to this question has been: anywhere but the United States. With its many uninsured citizens and its relatively low life expectancy, the United States has been relegated to the bottom of international health scorecards.

But a prominent researcher, Samuel H. Preston, has taken a closer look at the growing body of international data, and he finds no evidence that America’s health care system is to blame for the longevity gap between it and other industrialized countries. In fact, he concludes, the American system in many ways provides superior treatment even when uninsured Americans are included in the analysis.

“The U.S. actually does a pretty good job of identifying and treating the major diseases,” says Dr. Preston, a demographer at the University of Pennsylvania who is among the leading experts on mortality rates from disease. “The international comparisons don’t show we’re in dire straits.”

You may think of Whole Foods as a liberal kind of store. It is. But it’s a classical liberal store.

John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, he gets it.

Shop at Whole Foods and let them know you agree with their position on health care.

“The problem with socialism is that eventually
you run out of other people’s money.”
—Margaret Thatcher [quote in original!]

• Remove the legal obstacles that slow the creation of high-deductible health insurance plans and health savings accounts (HSAs).The combination of high-deductible health insurance and HSAs is one solution that could solve many of our health-care problems. For example, Whole Foods Market pays 100% of the premiums for all our team members who work 30 hours or more per week (about 89% of all team members) for our high-deductible health-insurance plan. We also provide up to $1,800 per year in additional health-care dollars through deposits into employees’ Personal Wellness Accounts to spend as they choose on their own health and wellness.
• Equalize the tax laws so that employer-provided health insurance and individually owned health insurance have the same tax benefits. Now employer health insurance benefits are fully tax deductible, but individual health insurance is not. This is unfair.
• Repeal all state laws which prevent insurance companies from competing across state lines.We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.
• Repeal government mandates regarding what insurance companies must cover. These mandates have increased the cost of health insurance by billions of dollars. What is insured and what is not insured should be determined by individual customer preferences and not through special-interest lobbying.
• Enact tort reform to end the ruinous lawsuits that force doctors to pay insurance costs of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. These costs are passed back to us through much higher prices for health care.
• Make costs transparent so that consumers understand what health-care treatments cost. How many people know the total cost of their last doctor’s visit and how that total breaks down? What other goods or services do we buy without knowing how much they will cost us?
• Enact Medicare reform. We need to face up to the actuarial fact that Medicare is heading towards bankruptcy and enact reforms that create greater patient empowerment, choice and responsibility.
• Finally, revise tax forms to make it easier for individuals to make a voluntary, tax-deductible donation to help the millions of people who have no insurance and aren’t covered by Medicare, Medicaid or the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.

I have only one thing to add: you damn right!

(h/t Amy Alkon)

Update: The typical, angry, vicious liberals are attacking CEO John Mackey. Whole Foods employees are fighting back.

Before you read this post, just think what would be the media reaction, what would be your reaction, if a Republican President had said this about people protesting his policies,

I don’t want the folks who created the mess do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.

Just think about what would have happened. But Obama said it. Think about it. You might even think about why most journalists are liberal, and how that might skew the national debate.

White House supporters were told to “punch back twice as hard.”

Senior White House adviser David Axelrod and deputy chief of staff Jim Messina told senators to focus on the insured and how they would benefit from “consumer protections” in the overhaul, such as ending the practice of denying insurance based on preexisting conditions and ensuring the continuity of coverage between jobs.

They showed video clips of the confrontational town halls that have dominated the media coverage, and told senators to do more prep work than usual for their public meetings by making sure their own supporters turn out, senators and aides said.

And they screened TV ads and reviewed the various campaigns by critics of the Democratic plan.

“If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,” Messina said, according to an official who attended the meeting.

They did. Literally. At Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan’s town hall, Obama’s union thug suppoters beat down a black conservative and kicked him on the ground.

Did you catch that? The black SEUI union thug, the only guy charged in the attack, says “he [the black conservative] attacked America, and I attacked him.” Yeah. To Obama supporters, you’re against America if you’re against socialized medicine.

Listen to Carnahan’s lame response.

The Democrat attack machine is smearing concerned citizens.

Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, the protesters want to “hurt our President and to change the Congress.” If by “hurt our President,” she means to hurt his abominable policies, then yes. Is it about changing Congress? Hell, yes!

That’s how our constitutional democracy works. The people change the Congress when they don’t like what it’s doing. Boxer acts as if democracy is some insane fascist plot.

I there is any astroturfing, it’s astroturfing that’s all liberal, all Democratic, all the time.

But lets look at how liberal Democrats live up to their own standards of civility.

Crazy liberals

Crazy ass liberals

Even more crazy ass liberals

You gotta’ be a complete dumb ass or a complete liar to forget the protest antics of liberal Democrats.

Tell you what, let’s meet the mob that’s opposing socialized medicine.

The scary mob, doing that scary democracy thing.

Wow. Mobbish. Reminds me of this horrifying social problem.