Gearing Up For The Health Care Debate
Obama was out on the stump today beginning to make the case for socialized health care. As is typical for our new president/CEO of GM, his words are meaningless. He claims that a public plan would not mean the end of private insurance. Of course, once a public plan is in place more and more people will be pushed into it as private insurers won’t be able to compete.
Interestingly, the battle over socialized medicine is nothing new. Most of us recall the 1993 battle over HillaryCare. Certainly, that was the biggest battle to date. But the fight dates back to well before this. It’s a fight that Ronald Reagan himself enjoined. He saw how socialized medicine was by its nature an anti-freedom, pro-socialism agenda. He saw that those who wanted socialized medicine would never win the day by passing it in one fell swoop. Rather, they would do so in incremental steps. This is exactly what is going on now. Obama claims a public plan won’t mean the end of private plans, but ultimately that’s what it will in fact result in.
With this huge battle looming, I can think of no better place to look to in order to prepare for this fight than Reagan himself. His message in this video couldn’t be any less relevant now than it was at the time he delivered it. It’s a message we need to heed and utilize in order to stop socialized medicine from becoming a reality in our nation.
Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!
June 15th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
[...] Last week I posted about Barack Obama’s push for a ‘public’ health care plan. Such a plan, I said, would not increase competition but in fact would do the exact opposite; thereby beginning to push people into a socialized, single-payer system. [...]