Conflicted Libertarian

Here’s some of the Governor’s Greatest Hits so to speak from the Politico article.  As far as I am concerned, these are better than Thriller album cuts!

“I know a little something about health care policy,…”

Governor Jindal was a state cabinet secretary (Health and Hospitals) at 24!  He also wrote a thorough reserarch paper as an intern for a Louisiana congressman that helped him get the DHH job. 

“If the House Democrats plan were to become law, the president’s statement that ‘if you like your health care now, you can keep it’, will not be true.  This is not an opinion, this is a fact.”

See this source for this.  I would note the comment that Louisiana Congressman Mike Cassidy states:

From the July 16 edition of Fox Business’ America’s Nightly Scoreboard:

ASMAN: Now, let me ask about this 1,000-page document that Democrats came out with earlier in the week that include all these tax measures and everything. There’s a little paragraph that was found by the Investor’s Business Daily today in there that says the individual – and I’m quoting from the document — “The individual health insurance issuer does not enroll any individual in coverage on or after the first day of the year this legislation becomes law.”

Now that has suggested to some that this document wants to outlaw private insurance after the new government insurance company comes into existence. Do you agree?

REP. BILL CASSIDY (R-LA): Yes, I do agree. And there’s also some ways that it does it more subtly.

There’s more: 

The House Democrats’ plan would have the following consequences:

• Most Americans would end up, over time, with government-run health care.

• The only folks who would be able to stave this off are the wealthy.

• The quality of our health care would diminish.

• Someone other than patients and doctors would make decisions on the treatments and medicines we can have.

• The taxes on the rich, otherwise known as employers, would further damage the economy and potentially drive up unemployment at a time we can least afford it.

This Wall Street Journal online article states several of these points fairly well:  Higher taxes, bad numbers and pain to the economy. 

Governor Jindal brings home HIS solution:

Imagine if the president proposed a reform package that made health insurance portable, ended frivolous lawsuits, allowed for pooling, required insurance companies to cover the sick, paid based on outcomes and not activity, used refundable tax credits to increase affordability and incentivized rather than penalized small businesses to provide coverage. Republicans would support those reforms, and the policy would benefit the entire country. True, it wouldn’t be the radical and exciting restructuring that Pelosi is pushing, but it would begin to move us toward common-sense, bottom-up solutions. Solutions! There’s an idea.

No more idle talk about GOP obstruction.  This is a start at a solution.  President Obama to the best of my knowledge did not seek Governor Jindal’s advice on health care.  Let’s ratchet up the fight.  If you live in a crucial Blue Dog or other centrist Democrat district, let your representative know:  No we can’t!  do Obamacare.

Finally:

Social Security and Medicare, our two biggest entitlement programs in this country, are perpetually underfunded and are always in danger of going bankrupt. Is it even remotely possible that we as a country are now considering adding an entire new entitlement program to our repertoire?

Would the last sane person in Washington please turn out the lights when you leave?

Governor Jindal has come out swinging.  Let’s help him.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25136_Page2.html#ixzz0LrHhuaVB

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25136_Page2.html#ixzz0LrHhuaVB