On Ronald Reagan’s birthday, it seemed appropriate to post this 1960s audio of the Gipper’s warning against Medicare mission creep. Here’s the money quote:
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism, or socialism, on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project.
He believed that, once the […]
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REAGAN ON SOCIALIZED MEDICINE
CANADIAN PREMIER RUNS TO U.S. FOR HEART SURGERY
Yet another Canadian politician has chosen the much-maligned U.S. health care system over the government-run health care of his own country. AP reports the following:
The premier of Canada’s east coast province is undergoing heart surgery in the United States this week because the treatment he is seeking was not available in his home province.
Hmm …. voting with his feet, […]
VIDEO: MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH “REFORM” AND PATIENT WAIT TIMES
Today Robert Gibbs told Chris Wallace that the voters of the Bay State sent a message of approval for Obamacare last Tuesday. He gave the emerging Dem party line: that the Massachusetts voters who really cared about health reform mostly cast their ballots for Coakley.
He also said Massachusetts voters like the “universal” health care program […]
UNIVERSAL BS
For years, advocates of socialized medicine have cited “the plight of the uninsured” as the primary justification for massive government intervention in the U.S. health care system. Indeed, the quest for ”universal coverage” appeared to be a quasi-religious crusade for these people. True believer Jonathan Cohn epitomized such apparent zealotry in the following passage from his 2007 book, Sick:
To believe in […]
FRENCH HEALTH CARE? JE PENSE PAS.
Now that Obamacare is imploding, I guess we’re in for a fresh crop of articles and blog posts pimping “the best health care system in the world.” Here’s alleged libertarian Matt Welch on the system ranked “best” by the World Health Organization:
In France, you are covered, period. It doesn’t depend on your job, it doesn’t depend on a health maintenance organization, and it doesn’t […]
REAGAN TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT MEDICARE
An easy way to bring a self-satisfied smirk to the face of an Obamacare supporter is to mention Ronald Reagan’s early opposition to Medicare. It’s an article of faith among these people that history has proven the Gipper wrong when he objected to the program for the following reason:
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism, or socialism, on a people has been by way […]
NYT PREMATURELY DECLARES VICTORY … AGAIN
Last year, when it was far to early to know, our friends at the NYT breathlessly announced that the Massachusetts universal health coverage plan was “off to a good start.” Since then, virtually all of the objective data have shown the Bay State experiment to be a fiscal nightmare that has failed to accomplish its basic goals.
Rather […]
HEALTH CARE: GEORGIA VS. MASSACHUSETTS
Obamacare is largely based on the universal health model implemented three years ago in Massachusetts. Here’s a funny and poignant video that explains why that’s a dumb idea:
No one has suggested basing health care reform in Georgia, of course. That would make too much sense.
[HT We Stand Firm]
KEEPING KRUGMAN HONEST
Whatever credibility the Nobel Prize committee had left after giving that POS Yasser Arafat the peace prize was lost when it gave Krugman the economics prize. The man is profoundly dishonest.
Krugman routinely writes things he knows aren’t true, and his column about the “public option” is no exception. Once one eliminates the straw men from his column, […]
PROOF THAT THE “PUBLIC OPTION” IS A TROJAN HORSE
Since President Oblarney and his congressional accomplices started talking about including a “public option” in their health care “reform” package, many free market advocates have warned that this would lead to a government-run single-payer system. For anyone still naive enough to doubt that, US Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) let the cat out of the bag:
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, co-sponsor […]
