Time of the Season

Yes, it’s that time of year once again.

The beaches are empty. The kid’s are back at school. The days are getting shorter. Fall is here.

You can tell it’s fall by what’s in the air – or, more precisely, what’s ON the air. I am referring to, of course, political commercials.

I must admit that I find it amazing that, after spending so much time creating commercials bashing each other, our leaders have any time left to actually legislate. This probably explains why so little actually gets done in Washington. Maybe it’s a good thing.




While watching these commercials, It’s usually pretty simple to determine what party a candidate belongs to by observing what issues they are attacking. For example, anything mentioning George Bush is, surprisingly, usually a commercial for a Democrat. Well, maybe, this really isn’t so surprising. It doesn’t look like George’s likeness is going to be added to Mt. Rushmore any time soon. Of course, any commercial that attacks national healthcare is undoubtedly the work of a Republican candidate.


I was recently taken in by the message in a recent commercial for a local Republican candidate that attacked ‘Obamacare’. It said something along the lines of ‘don’t let a government bureaucrat make decisions about your health’.

A powerful message. If we learned anything over the past ten years in this country, we’ve learned that important health decisions should be made by your health insurance carrier and their bureaucrats. Where does the government get off in thinking that their bureaucrats should have dibs on deciding my health? If I am going to be denied a treatment, let the denial come from some faceless individual who works for my insurance company and not from some faceless individual who works for my government! This whole debate is, as the lawyers are apt to say, a ‘slippery slope’. If we let the government get away with taking over health care decisions, where will it all end? Can you imagine a future where important health care decisions are made by the patient? Or, horror of horrors, by a DOCTOR?

God forbid!

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