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Date: 8/25/09

Health Care Solution: Shoot the Hostage

So, like you I'm trying to comprehend the finer points on the debate over Health Insurance Reform (formerly known as Health Care Reform [formerly known as Socialism] and it suddenly occurs to me: Shoot the Hostage.

Grandma and Grandpa have been showing up at town hall meetings and screaming at the top of their 60% lung capacity that they hate the idea of the government deciding whether or not they get hip replacements, pacemakers, and triple-bypass heart surgery. Meanwhile, Sarah Palin jumps into the fray by coining the term "Death Panels" and just as the White Hair Rage begins to become deafening, I remember that scene in Speed.

Harry Temple: All right, pop quiz. Airport, gunman with one hostage. He's using her for cover; he's almost to a plane. You're a hundred feet away... Jack?

Jack: Shoot the hostage.

Shoot the hostage and the bad guy loses his ability to control you. At least that's the theory.

That's why I've shot Grandma. Between the Death Panel accusations and Democrat double-speak, I just felt that Grandma was clouding up the issue. By removing her, I think I can see things more clearly.

It was a humane shooting and thank goodness I was able to go out and buy a gun before the Democrats passed anymore stifling laws which would have made it even more expensive or more of a cumbersome task.

She said she'd rather go out quick than God forbid contract some terminal illness under Obama Care and then have to just drag her feet all the way to the grave. Grandma said dying slow would have bored her to tears.

So, the hostage is gone. Grandma was a real good sport about it, too. She put on one of those big red logo shirts from Target - her favorite store - then ran through my backyard like a 12-point buck yelling, "Saggy venison! Come get yer some saggy venison!"

Without Grandma mucking up the discussion, I can look at Health Care Reform and see it for what it really is: an invasive government program which will hurt more young people than older ones. Younger America doesn't remember much about the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, The communist U.S.S.R., Air-Raid drills, the Carter years vs. the Reagan years and the outcome of what America became after World War II and forward.

If you're an older American, you'll always know the kind of America you grew up in: proud, independent, self-reliant, and philanthropic. Younger Americans simply do not have this perspective. Our country is going from a classic Norman Rockwell portrait to an Obama-as-the-Joker poster and this is worse news for younger than older Americans.

Every time you accept a handout from Washington, you're just a little more beholding to the hand that is feeding you. The less you work for something, the lazier you become. The lazier you become, the easier your liberty is usurped.

Maybe Grandma let me shoot her because she feared Obama Care less than the frightening thought of what exactly is happening to her country.

The good news is the government can promise you free health care - but the bad news is it won't guarantee the health of your freedom.

- Corey Deitz