Some of my fellow Conservatives bristle at the thought that some of us don't want the Obama administration to "succeed." So I thought I would spend a few posts trying to find what we can all agree we want Obama to be succeed at. First up, health care.
The Obama administration tactic of trying to scare everyone into doing what they want is certainly in play when it comes to the health care issue. We're constantly bombard with the horror stories of people losing everything due to health care costs. The solution, says the budding socialists down in the nation's capitol, is to turn to the health care system that they have in Britain and Canada.
While I don't usually listen to the Mark Levin show, I was driving home last week and briefly tuned in to hear his thoughts on the health care "crisis," in the form of some news headlines he culled from some British and Canadian papers. Here are some random ones from the UK:
- Pensioner, 76, forced to pull out own teeth after 12 NHS dentists refuse to treat her
- Lung patients 'condemned to death as NHS withdraws their too expensive drugs'
- NHS chiefs tell grandmother, 61, she's 'too old' for £5,000 life-saving heart surgery
- Secret NHS plan to ration patient care
Some from Canada:
- Ont. physician turns away patient for being 55+
- Canada's drug tab reaches $22 billion, report suggests
- Canada's Once-Proud Public Health System in Crisis
This is the link to see the remainder (and they number in the dozens from where ever they have tried socialized mediciane) http://www.liberty-page.com/issues/healthcare/socialized.html#britain
And yet the Obama administration wants to set us down the path to socialized medicine. Is this the change we can all believe in? Is this what we want him to be successful at?
