And, hey, if you think I’m being a bit harsh, I’ve got nothing on Mark Steyn:
Last week, during a bit of banter on Fox News, my colleague Jonah Goldberg reminded me of something I’d all but forgotten. Last September, during his address to Congress on health care, Barack Obama declared: “I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.”
Dream on. The monstrous mountain of toxic pustules sprouting from greasy boils metastasizing from malign carbuncles that passed the Senate on Christmas Eve is not the last word in “health” “care,” but the first. It ensures that this is all we’ll be talking about, now and forever.
Government can’t just annex “one-sixth of the U.S. economy” (i.e., the equivalent of annexing the entire British or French economy, or annexing the entire Indian economy twice over) and then just say: “Okay, what’s next? On to cap-and-trade . . . ” Nations that governmentalize health care soon find themselves talking about little else.
What has happened is astounding. First off because it is known that nationalized health care doesn’t work. First we were to emulate the Brits, until their national health service proved worthless. Then it was on to emulating Canadians, until they started flooding across the border to seek medical care. Now, from what I can tell, we’re to emulate the French as, to this point, the French health care system hasn’t proven itself a disaster. Of course, its running massively over budget year by year and wait times are rising…so, in a few years we’ll no longer be able to use France as an example. Of course, if the Democrats get their way, it won’t matter – we’ll be shackled to a failed system where only the rich and the politically connected get good care.
Secondly, there is all the corruption which has been used to advance this. Remember, this wouldn’t even have got off the ground had not the Democrats, upon the death of Ted Kennedy, corruptly changed a law they had corruptly changed a few years back to prevent even the faintest possibility of a Republican appointing a Senator in Massachusetts. This is the level of garbage we’re dealing with. Democrats in charge means that rank, nauseating corruption is the rule, not the exception. And it took the Democrats all the slime they could find just to grease the path of this dog of a bill.
And its a bill that only a tiny, out-of-touch, leftist minority even wants. And it doesn’t even do what its supposed to do – its supposed to provide care for all Americans, but it will still leave millions out of the system. To nutshell it – Democrats are passing a bill which will cost like heck, won’t do its job, no one wants it and massive bribery with taxpayer dollars has been used to get it through.
This has to be stopped – and once we do stop it, we’re going to have to reform our government root and branch.
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