During the 2008 Election Campaign, Obama touted his plans to reform the health care system as one of his main objectives. At the time, the majority of Americans thought that reform was a good idea, and being that Obama had not revealed any details of how he was going to reform health care, they found nothing objectionable and favored it. Fast forward to the present, the Democrats and Obama having floated a plethora of ideas on what they want to do, and Americans from all over the country are objecting in huge numbers.

One week after President Obama’s speech to Congress, opposition to his health care reform plan has reached a new high of 55%. The latest Rasmussen Reports daily tracking poll shows that just 42% now support the plan, matching the low first reached in August.

Not only do a majority of ordinary citizens reject Obamacare, but 45% of practicing physicians say they will consider retiring if Obamacare passes:

Two of every three practicing physicians oppose the medical overhaul plan under consideration in Washington, and hundreds of thousands would think about shutting down their practices or retiring early if it were adopted, a new IBD/TIPP Poll has found.

The poll contradicts the claims of not only the White House, but also doctors’ own lobby — the powerful American Medical Association — both of which suggest the medical profession is behind the proposed overhaul.

It also calls into question whether an overhaul is even doable; 72% of the doctors polled disagree with the administration’s claim that the government can cover 47 million more people with better-quality care at lower cost.

This is pretty bad news for the Obama Administration, but you wouldn’t know it by listening to them:

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod had strong words for Americans who demonstrated at the Capitol in opposition of the president’s health care reform plans.

“My message to them is, they’re wrong,” Axelrod said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“I don’t believe that some of the angriest, most strident voices we saw during the summer were representative of the thousands of town hall meetings that went on around the country that came off peacefully, that were constructive, people voicing their points of view,” Axelrod said.

That is all the Obama Administration will give the millions of Americans who oppose the current reform plans being debated in Congress: dismissal. They don’t agree with The One© so they are simply dismissed like so much refuse. Basically, the Obama Administration is behaving like a three year old child sitting in his highchair, with his fingers in his ears, yelling, “LA! LA! LA! I DON’T HEAR YOU! LA! LA! LA!”

Remember, in this Administration, this is “bipartisanship” and “reaching out” to the other side.

So, what exactly do these millions of Americans object to in these proposals? Here is what I think:

1. They’re tired of being lied to. Obama continues to say that this reform will not raise the deficit by one cent, while the CBO and other organizations say that it will add trillions to the deficit over the next ten years. Obama says that the cost savings realized by his proposals will pay for the proposal entirely, and the economics experts practically die laughing.
2. Obama says that if you like your plan, you don’t have to change. What he doesn’t say is that economic reality will require small and medium size businesses, in order to stay competitive, to stop offering health care benefits once their employees can get it from the government. This will close the majority of insurance companies, reducing the choice available and forcing the majority of Americans into his government-run system.
3. Obama says that he’s not going to pull the plug on granny. Reality says that we have a doctor shortage right now, and if you throw another 40 million people into the system without adding a huge number of new doctors, care will be rationed by default. Reimbursements to health care providers will be reduced to lower costs, and that will prevent a great many people from becoming doctors, especially when it means being overworked for less money.

The present health care system is not perfect, not by a long shot. However, the proposals currently on the table from the Democrats are not serious alternatives to what is presently available. All these proposals do is bloat the health care bureaucracy, screw health care providers, and discourage drug companies from doing research and development on new drugs and treatments. How does any of that help anyone?

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