Here We Go Again: “Universal” Health Care
Hillary Clinton, famous for her failed attempt at a government-run health care plan during her husband’s presidency is promising “Universal Health Care” when she becomes president.
From Yahoo/AP:
DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic presidential hopeful
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Monday to create a universal health care system if elected, saying she “learned a lot” during the failed health care effort of her husband’s presidency.“We’re going to have universal health care when I’m president — there’s no doubt about that. We’re going to get it done,” the New York senator and front-runner for the 2008 nomination said.
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Asked how she could improve on her failed effort to reform health care during her husband’s presidency, Clinton said pressure for change has built in the last decade and that would make tackling the issue easier.
“I believe the American people are going to make this an issue,” said Clinton. “I believe we’re in a better position today to do that than we were in ‘93 and ‘94. … It’s one of the reasons I’m running for president.”
The thought of Hillary Clinton and others like her managing my health care makes me, well…. sick.
The cost of health care is spiraling out of control because the politicians pander to special interests and pass regulations that are hostile to a free market in health care. Those who are now pushing for “universal” health care, rather than giving individuals more control over their own bodies and health care, want even more control over the market and individual lives.
Good medicine is based on science and rational thinking. Politics is not. Once medicine and science are married to government they cease to be science based, and become political instead. Treatments are tested and available only at the whim of those in political power, not because you need them. Rationing is inevitable. Those with political clout get what they want from the system, at the expense of others, and those without clout pay but don’t get what they need or want.
The damage from a “universal” health care system can be somewhat mitigated if a free market system is allowed to exist as well. But, as we’ve seen in Canada, once bureaucrats have control literally over every body in the country, they don’t give it up to competition.
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March 26th, 2007 at 11:36 am
I would be very weary of trusting Hillary Clinton on health care. Her record shows that Hillary puts out a political agenda like health care merely for narrow political interests.
March 26th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Universal Health care is a complete failure every where it’s tried, and it’s NOT worth dying for!
Watch this video to see just how bad it really is in Canada:
http://www.onthefencefilms.com/video/brainsurgery.html
March 26th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Watch the video.
It gives an excellent example of exactly what I’m talking about - a person with a brain-tumor unable to get care and also unable to get reimbursement from the Canadian government for the treatment for his tumor that he obtained in the U.S. because he didn’t get “permission” from the government before seeking treatment.
What kind of government demands that its citizens get permission before they act to save their own lives?
That’s what Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama and several other candidates have planned for you.