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In the Los Angeles Times today. The headline says it all:

“Political Temperature May be Just Right for Health Care Overhaul.”

Ohhhh! Political temperature may be just right. I wonder what the political temperature is? Well, the temperature is:

“[T]he bleak environment [and ‘the ballooning budget deficit’] may paradoxically spur the kind of costly, sweeping overhaul of the nation’s healthcare system that has eluded policymakers in Washington for decades… Hospitals and physicians are increasingly worried about the escalating burden of newly unemployed workers being thrown onto the rolls of the uninsured. Liberal advocacy groups see the Treasury Department’s $700-billion commitment to banks and other financial institutions bolstering the case for a similar investment to help sick Americans get medical care.”

So this “bleak” economic environment will lead to a bailout of the health care system. That’s what the LA Times story is saying; and on page two, they even make the point that “runaway healthcare costs would not slow during the recession.”

Health care is immune to market pressures of cost.

“Runaway health care costs [do] not slow during recession.”

Other costs do, but health care doesn’t. So this means it’s only going to keep going up with people having less disposable income. We’re going to have to move in there and help out. This is the perfect environment to get national health care. The market just doesn’t work. Even in a recession, when you ought to have prices coming down because of lack of demand, the health industry is immune.

See, the market doesn’t work. We have to step in. “We,” as government, have to step in and we have to finally do this. That’s the way these people think.

Plus, Ted Kennedy‘s health is going to be a large factor in this because there will someday be a health care bill in the Senate, and it will have his name in it, and it will be promoted in his memory, and it is going to be real tough for anybody in the House or Senate to vote against something that is essentially a memoriam to the great work of the old great liberal lion, Ted Kennedy.

So what have we figured out here?

We figured out that the Obama camp will bail out the auto industry (but it’s actually going to be a bailout of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, and the unions).

We have also figured out there’s going to be a gasoline tax increase, if the prices of oil stay this low. There’s no question these people are going to see an opportunity to tax it, since we are already accustomed to paying more than what’s being charged now.

Plus, it will come down in the guise of,

“Hey, you’re saving the planet by doing this, folks. We’re going to see to it you drive less just like you were four months ago. I mean, that was really great for the planet back then, it didn’t last so we’re going to raise taxes there — and we’re going to get national health care.”

We can see this coming down the pike. It’s right there in front of us. It’s like we’re with the lemmings, they’re heading for the cliff, and there’s nothing to stop it.

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Geronimo…

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