Repackaging Socialism

In business, if your marketing is compelling enough, you will successfully sell even the most useless product. If this were not true, infomercials and the likes of the also recently deceased Billy Mays would not be so prevalent in our society. Style over substance seems to have become the American way. All indications from the last twenty four hours seem to infer that the left is once again going to change their marketing strategy as it relates to their plans for Universal Health Care, I mean Health Care Reform, I mean Health Insurance Reform with an essential "Public" Option, I mean not essential "Public" Option. No, wait it is essential again.

The left has tried to rename and repackage this plan numerous times to make it sound palatable to he American people, but have not substantively changed a single thing about the plan. That is because it is a plan in name only. That is because as with every other government plan, there is no clear estimate as to its cost and no documented source for funding other than you the taxpayer. Now realizing that the President's charm and eloquence are not enough to overcome the plan's lack of substance, and that the shrill nature of Speaker Pelosi and Rep. Frank are not enough to scare away critics, the face of the plan is once again being repackaged. With the death of Sen. Kennedy, the left is attempting to use emotion to overcome rational thought and garner support for their still ideologically and fiscally flawed plan.

I actually agree with Sen. Dodd when he said he hopes Sen. Kennedy's passing will, "cause people to take a breath, step back, and start talking with each other again in -- in more civil tones about what needs to be done, because that's what Teddy would do." That is exactly what many of us opposed to the very premise of the left's plan have been trying to do. Direct and open civil discussion would expose the plan for what it is, a gross expansion of government that serves no purpose other than bringing the majority of the Gross Domestic Product under the control of the federal government. Real solutions that successfully address identical issues in other segments of the insurance industry are ignored for purposes of political power. The anger is a result of the surreptitious manner in which the plan has been moved forward. Average people with an increasingly limited political voice are reduced to anger and frustration at an aristocratic political class that seems intent on holding dominion over the population.

It is truly a shame that someone's death is trivialized in such an infomercial style repackaging of the same plan.