Analog TV, SCHIP & National Healthcare: When Your Time Comes…

Congress threw analog TV another lifeline. They moved the transition day June 12 so Americans have more time to prepare for the transition. After nearly five years of alerting Americans of the coming change, American obviously tuned out the warnings. On the 17th of this month, they shouldn’t be allowed to tune in. Congress decided to nurse the uninformed and lackadaisical for another four months. I know of one local television station that was upset when the news came in today.

For years, they have invested in the mandated equipment, ran two signals, and complied with the Federal Commutation Commission’s guidelines. The costs have added up now for a couple of years from running two signals, which isn’t cheap, to the new broadcasting equipment. I guarantee you if they left the date alone, there would be a long line at Best Buy after work on the 17th. How many people still use terrestrial signals anyway? This is just another example of the government too afraid to wean the masses off the government’s teat.

On this same day, the government moved closer to nationalizing health care, passing the expansion of SCHIP, which has to be the sickest health care legislation I have seen in my lifetime. Our government, trillions of dollars in debt agreed today to provide health care to children living in $80,000 a year families who already have insurance. A family of five may receive health care for their children and still make $100,000. Obama said today as he signed the legislation, “we fulfill one of the highest responsibilities that we have: to ensure the health and well-being of our nation’s children.”

I’m sorry, but who denies a child health care in this country? That’s why we have Medicaid, and anyone who works in the health care industry knows they don’t turn down children. What Obama really means is, we fulfill one of the highest responsibilities we have: to further nationalize health care and provide mediocre health care for all.

His next step to nationalization will be to push the Medicare age from 65 to 55. How will our children who inherit our nation and their children after ever have a life with the debt we build for them?

It’s ironic. On the day the Democratic Congress prolonged the life of analog television, we move towards health care that won’t place enough value in our own lives to give us four more months with our families and friends. We move towards a system that won’t provide hope, only misery; yet, Congress hopes to avoid Americans suffering when they can’t watch Dancing with the Starts on the evening February 17th. It’s sad.

Originally Published at Bungalow Bill’s Conservative Wisdom
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