Congratulations!

Our cancer-stick-sucking Hypocrite-in-Chief has signed the first evolution of Socialized Medicine into law.

We're all going to feel so much better about ourselves while we pay for the healthcare smorgasbord of unrepentant smokers (like him), the super-sized obese, drug-addicts, drunk drivers, chronic STD carriers, non-compliant McDonalds-snorting diabetics and the like.

That'll show those greeeedy insurance companies! Behavior be damned ... we want our healthcare!!!

Wake up, fools, and look what you've done. At a time when our country is eyeball-deep in debt, fighting war on 2 fronts (didn't Obama promise to do something about that?), maintaining a near 10% unemployment rate ... hey, I know! Lets institute another gargantuan entitlement program!

Great timing!

What so many proponents of socialized medicine don't see - or refuse to see - is that entitlement programs create beneficiaries ... a class of people who only understand benefits, because they don't put anything into the benefit pool. They get, rather than give. That doesn't create a grateful, newly productive, healthy American - as they'd have you believe. Rather, it creates a slave to the system who understands only the benefits to be derived from the program ... a program supported by those of us who remain to prop it up with our tax dollars. In a way, it creates the greediest of mindsets.

Did I mention nearly 10% unemployment?

This program will drag us all under because of it's own fiscal weight. The claims that this will actually save money are outright preposterous.

8 years of working for Medicare and a couple years as a nurse have taught me that people who are given a benefit have absolutely no incentive to conserve the benefit. Rather, they're encouraged to use it, and to use it to its fullest.

Instituting that mindset in the context of American health care will bring the entire system crashing down ... but we'll be sitting in waiting rooms for a long, long time before it happens.

The waiting room to see your doctor is already full, America. Enjoy your wait.