The Beltway Hypocrisy is Showing

I haven’t posted anything in a while because, frankly, I have been overwhelmed by the number of topic choices laid at my feet by the Democrat administration and the Democrat Senate.  While I am not happy with the Republican establishment, some of the members of the Republican Party have been up to the challenge and given me hope for the future.

I could write volumes about most of the political leaders’ inability to care about the population.  However, no example available trumps the healthcare debacle now playing on the American scene.  My question to the leaders of both parties is this:  “How do you justify in your egotistical minds telling me not only that I must buy insurance but what kind of insurance I must buy?”  Who made you an authority on my life, my budget, my healthcare needs?  Since I have never met you, it certainly wasn’t me who told you it was your duty and responsibility to take care of me.

The phrase “free and over 21” used to mean that I was in control of my life after my 21st birthday.  Free to decide for myself how I earned my money and how I spent my money.  Now I find that after leaving my parents’ house and establishing my own household, I have to get permission from people who do not know me about health issues.

This policy is from the same party who has advocated for years that a woman’s body is her private affair and she is free to choose whether or not she has an abortion.  They have argued that no government has the right to tell her she can’t make that decision all alone.  They have pushed for girls as young as 12 years of age to make that decision without her parents.

Now, how do you reconcile that fact with this:  I’m over 50 and these same people tell me I can’t make any decisions about my health in private with my doctor.  All of this while exempting themselves from these rules.  Really?

The cherry on top of this garbage pile is the lack of privacy for your records.  How many years have we been signing that HIPAA form that says everything is private?  Now we are asked to put our private information into a website that has more holes than a sieve.  Not only that, but our information can be sold to companies.  I still haven’t read how they determine how those companies are chosen or how it is determined they are legitimate and won’t sell the information again.

I have a news bulletin for those people who keep saying this program isn’t ready for prime time.  It’s not ready for anytime—ever.  As an American with ancestry back to the early 1700s in this country, I want my liberty.  I want decisions about my life to be made by me.  I don’t expect anyone, nor do I need anyone, taking that responsibility away from me.  I may not be as smart as some of these people but I do have enough sense to know what I need to do to take care of myself.

I want my freedom, my right to choose, the liberty to pursue my happiness.  I want my independence from tyrants who call themselves politicians.