Show Notes: Socialized Medicine

The following is the opening rant from the newly named Full Frontal Lobe Assault show on BTR that was formally The Gribbit and Kender Show. The show streamed at midnight Saturday night.

With THE most socialist individual to ever infest 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue pushing his leftist agenda, many on the right are fearful of his socializing the medical industry. I’m not going to snow you into thinking that this doesn’t frighten me, because it absolutely TERRIFIES ME!

Being the father of a child with extensive, and expensive, medical needs, I fear for the quality of that care once the Obamaramadingdong has his way with the industry. What fears me even more, is the idea that a government bureaucrat being in charge of the decision making process on which procedures are medically viable. This puts said bureaucrat into the position of being GOD. And I’m sorry, but a government appointed deity is frightening.

Who is to say if a child is viable or not? Who is to say if medical procedures on the elderly are worth it or not?

Friday, my little one had a visit from her Early Intervention Specialist. A federally mandated program funded by the local MRDD Board for children who are physically or mentally delayed. Why my daughter has to be visited I’ll get into another time, but her Early Intervention Specialist told us of a story of a woman in her family who recently had to have a procedure done. She couldn’t get anyone in the area to perform the procedure so she went to the Cleveland Clinic. The doctor there even was reluctant to perform the procedure because this woman is in her 80’s. My fear is that under the Obama plan, she would have been denied the procedure solely based upon her age.

Where are we going with this idea of placing the federal government in control of the health care, or any industry for that matter? Whether it is banking, health care, transportation, energy, or under water basket weaving, the truth is that as soon as the feds get involved it becomes more expensive and less efficient.

Decades ago the federal government took charge of a couple of rail companies. One became known as ConRail and has since been privatized and taken over by CSX and Norfolk Southern Railroads. The other? Well it is still run by the feds and is known as Amtrack.

Kender knows all about the efficiency of Amtrack and I’m sure he’s getting poised to jump in with a few comments about this massively inept organization but Congress doesn’t see it that way. Those members who live outside of the Northeast Corridor fly when they need to travel to and from their home districts. Those who use Amtrack think it is the best thing since the invention of the wheel especially since they fund it.

And of course I could mention the level of incompetence that the United States Postal Service is run with. Do we really want the same people in charge of health care that run the Post Office so efficiently?!?

The biggest fear that I have is abortion. We all know that King Hussein I has a propensity for killing the unborn. He has proven his loyalty to Planned Parenthood on multiple occasions.

When we found out that our little princess was going to be born with Spina Bifida, the first option given us was abortion. Mind you, by law they only had 4 weeks to terminate because by the time it was confirmed via ultrasound Mrs. Gribbit was in her 20th week.

I find it inconceivable that anyone, without knowing the extent of the defect, which cannot be known until after the repair is performed by-the-way, can make the decision to abort their child.

I know from studying what Spina Bifida is and how it comes about that the spinal cord of a baby forms around 12 days after conception. The presence of a spinal cord equals the ability for the baby to feel PAIN.

Abortion advocates spend a lot of time trying to convince the general public that before 24 weeks a baby is nothing more than a collection of tissue incapable of feeling pain. I have news for all of you, as soon as the central nervous system forms that baby, and it is a baby by-the-way, feels pain.

My biggest fear is that under Obama, the medical profession will become socialized and that government appointed deity in Washington would mandate that babies such as mine would be killed in the womb at 20 weeks. How could I possibly look my daughter in the eye if I supported that creep? How could I look her in the eye if I voted for that creep? How could I look her in the eye and tell her that she is special and allow that moron to kill babies who are just like her before they are born without opposing him?

And just as a matter of clarity, my daughter’s condition is nowhere as bad as the doctor who confirmed her defect made it out to be. It was a L2 level lesion and had a very great probability of being as bad as he said, but it isn’t. He led us to believe that she would never walk. That said however, she has full leg, ankle, foot, and toe movement. Her neurosurgeon suspect that she may have a little ankle weakness but that can be corrected with Orthotics.

If children such as mine are going to be prevented from birth because of the extensive medical support they need throughout their lives, then I will be advocating Euthanasia for AIDS victims because their outcome is much more dire than my child’s.

For more on Spina Bifida click on What Is Spina Bifida?

Audio of the show is available.

This episode features Conservative Film-maker Jack Marino. Jack made a film called Forgotten Heroes available at www.forgottenheroesthefilm.com.

I must apologize in advance for the quality of the audio in my rant. The system by which I connect to BTR needs to be revisited. That said however, Kender’s audio as well as Jack’s is excellent.

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