Newt Gingrich marvels at one of the weirder phenomena of the health care debate:
Is there anything in your life you think would be better if it were run by government bureaucrats? For most of us, the answer is a laughable “No.”
Nonetheless:
There is sympathy for turning over our most private, personal decisions, not to mention one sixth of our economy, to the same unresponsive, anti-entrepreneurial culture that gave us the response to Hurricane Katrina.
And lest you think that Katrina was the exception rather than the rule where government incompetence is concerned:
Our two largest government-run health programs—-Medicare and Medicaid—-are on fiscal crash courses that make Social Security seem like a model of solvency.
And for those who think it’s only American bureaucrats who screw up health care, Gingrich points his readers to the films of Stuart Browning at Free Market Cure, where I cross post from time to time:
Other countries with similar systems face lengthy and often deadly waiting lists … view the short films of Stuart Browning for a flavor of the Canadian system.
There is a reason that, despite government’s long history of incompetence and failure, many people think that an expansion of the federal role in health care is a good thing—-the Democrats and their allies in the media have been lying to the public, essentially promising free health care.
Sadly, by the time the voters figure this out, much misery will have resulted from the bad health care policies of the people who now control D.C.
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