Say Anything Blog

We’re all aware that Democrats would like to make all Americans dependent on the government for health care.  After all, independent Americans are harder to control.  We’re also aware that Democrats love masking their push to expand government control in “it’s for the children!” rhetoric.  The Democrats know Americans may never embrace a universal health care system what with the atrocious examples similar systems in Canada and Great Britain are setting.  So that’s why their best bet to establish socialized medicine in America is the SCHIP program.  By expanding the program so that it will cover pretty much everyone in the United States they get de facto socialized medicine, and by casting it as a program “for the children” they can accuse anyone opposing it of not wanting to help children.

Which is exactly why they’ve got some twelve-year-old kid, who likely has no idea what this is all about and will undoubtedly be reading from a script some liberal commissar-wannabe drew up for him, will be sticking it to President Bush on SCHIP during tomorrow’s Democrat radio address.

To pressure President Bush not to veto Senate-passed legislation that would extend a federal children’s health insurance plan, Senate democrats have asked 12-year-old Graeme Frost — who benefited from the program while recovering from a severe car accident — to deliver the weekly radio address.

“One of the pleasures that the speaker and I have is that we submit who is going to give the radio address following the president,” said Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid Friday during a ceremony on Capitol Hill. “We decided that we wanted this week to have a real heavy-weight. And that’s why this week we have 12-year-old Graeme with us.”

In the radio address, Graeme asks why President Bush wants to “stop” the program.

“I don’t know why President Bush wants to stop kids who really need help from getting SCHIP,” Graeme will say in the Saturday radio address, according to a transcript released Friday. “All I know, is that I have some really good doctors that took care of me when I was sick and I’m glad I could because of the children’s health program. I just hope the president will listen to my story and help other kids be as lucky as me.”

Right.  Because unless we expand SCHIP to encompass every single person in the world a bunch of cute twelve-year-olds are gonna die.

This is political theater at its most inane.  We all want kids to get the medical care they need.  Opposing the Democrats on SCHIP doesn’t mean you want to see kids like little Graeme suffer.

What we should all be looking toward is a way to make Americans more independent, not dependent.  Let’s find a way to empower Americans so they can afford their own health care, not drag every one down to the lowest common denominator of care in some fruitless search for equality that, frankly, hasn’t worked any where else it has been tried.