Sunday, September 30, 2007

On one of those FOX media radio broadcasts I heard a Liberatarian segment go like this:


"Publix is running walk in clinics. They are also hosting free antibiotics to anyone that needs them. Now why is it Democrats just can't see how private industry can solve the problems of the nation?"

Now, to begin with, I don't like a chain store to be singled out as an example to Right Wing Rhetoric. Publix is a national chain store offering free clinics as a means to fend off the mood in the nation regarding the poor performance of health insurance companies. As a means to bring a favorite light to their stores, they simply have instituted free clinics and antibiotics to keep folks coming in rather than being ridiculed as a profiteering enterprise.


And anyone would be lucky to have a Publix free clinic available, because, I don't even have a Publix anywhere within driving distance.

THAT, does not translate into a resolution to a national health insurance crisis. THAT, it just a PR campaign to keep bad opinion away from their stores. I can appreciate that.

BUT

What the Right Wing Rhetoric did was to present this as a concrete example of how private enterprise can SOLVE all American's problems. It can't. Does Publix have an emergency room? Do they offer free surgery when it comes to Coronary Artery By-Pass?

The entire focus of the Right Wing, be it Libertarian or Republican, is to take miniscule examples of generosity by private enterprise and magnify it into a national health insurance strategy.

They are ludicrous, "W"rong and willing to endanger the lives of anyone in order to maintain their stock portfolios. The Right Wing opinions that exist these days have absolutely no basis in any fact and care even less today about Americans than ten years ago.