Keith D. Milby :: blog

Few things government does well. Most things, those things it has no buisness doing in the first place, it does poorly. To add Universal Health Care to the list would be one of those things it would do poorly.

Think about what it does. Think about what you have to go through when you have to interact with your government for services. Do you really want this same government managing your heath care?

Maggie Gallagher sheds some light on the real deal in Truth About Nationalized Health Care

How hard can it be to offer a universal health care plan? “John Edwards had a plan, I had a plan, Chris Dodd had a plan, Dennis Kucinich had a plan, Bill Richardson had a plan. Because we’re Democrats …” Clinton said.

But Obama, in his Bob the Builder campaign designed to appeal to the toddler in every American, offers a plan that is all gain and no pain: subsidized health insurance for anyone who wants to buy it, whenever they want to buy it. More money, more choice, no cost. Gee, what’s not to like?

Nothing, except that Hillary is correct. Obamacare can’t possibly work, because it doesn’t make sense to buy insurance when you are young and healthy if you are guaranteed access anyway when you are older and sicker.

When a politician offers to do something for me, I always ask how much freedom is it going to cost me?

One more thing, deny this fact and you are only fooling yourself.

Here’s the other dirty little secret: National health insurance is going to cost Brandy and other taxpayers a whole lot more than either Hillary or Obama admits. Just ask Gov. Deval Patrick in Massachusetts, where just two years into operation, the state’s mandatory health insurance plan is already costing $400 million more than budgeted.

I think John Edwards just split his pants to the point that they cannot be repaired.

He is proposing in a new commercial that if Congress does not pass Universal Health Care he will take it away from Congress out of spite. The problem is, he can’t do that.

What an idiot!

He is the extreme of the democrats and fortunately for us all, has not a chance in Hell of ever being president.

Source: An Impossible Promise From John Edwards

Excellent PSA and a wonderful illustration as to how ridiculous this whole expansion of SCHIP really is.

It seems the democrats will try again to expand a decent program into a disaster. Even though I have issues with the current program. To expand it to include less than deserving people is just too much.

This was a mistake in the first place. Thanks Republicans. To allow it to expand even more just puts us all that much closer to Universal Health Care. To fund it with extreme taxes on cigarettes is the biggest problem of all. Where do you think the funding will come from when that well drys up? They certainly won’t cut funding. They never do.

Source: Politico

This guy can’t be serious. Not only does he want to Canadianize our health care, he seriously wants to force us to then go for mandatory preventive check ups.

He either has a bunch a dumb monkey’s working for him, he’s an idiot, he’s not serious about wanting to run for president or all of the above.

Edwards backs mandatory preventive care

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.

“It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,” he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. “If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.”

Hey, how about you make getting bar codes tattooed on our forehead mandatory while you’re at it. 

Well I guess the hidden blessing in this, he has ripped his last pair of under-wear and will be soon bowing out of the race. I would not be surprised if this becomes his “Dean Scream”.

If you had any doubt as to how far democrats want to invade your private lives, this should remove it all.

UPDATE: Just read this great post from Six Meat Buffet. Much better than my comments.

One of the best things about Democrat pre-primary politics is when they start trying to out-liberal each other. In pure socialist fashion, all the candidates rush to the front of the line to tell us why his or her far-left idea is further left than the person behind them.

As Stupid goes, so goes another government entitlement program. In the latest stupid attempt by congress, it is planning to pay for an expanded government paid health program by taxing cigarettes. What I guess has not been realized by these dim bulbs in Washington is that by taxing cigarettes, this will reduce the amount of cigarettes purchased thereby reducing the amount of tax collected. And where do you think these idiots are going to go when this stupid plan fails to generate the revenue anticipated?

If you answered additional taxes, you are correct.

Say NO to additional taxes, on anything, anywhere,  anytime, for any reason. That is the only way to reduce the size of government.

From the Examiner.com:  Thank you for smoking

Add a higher federal tax to those factors, and it is impossible to envision sufficient revenues to finance SCHIP as Congress intends. So Congress will need millions of new tobacco customers to replace those who quit, die or reduce consumption. At least 9 million new smokers will be needed during the next five years to ensure sufficient revenues to pay for the expanded SCHIP program. And that illustrates yet another law of economic reality — government actions almost always have unintended consequences, and they are usually bad.

As once said by Forrest Gump: Stupid is as Stupid does.

h/t: Instapundit