Obama: Nationalized Health Care Either Passes This Year “Or Never”
I wish that were actually true. It would mean we could kill the issue now and never have to worry about it again. Unfortunately, I suspect that even if Obama’s designs on a nationalized health system do get derailed the issue will come up again and again.
Because much like socialism as a whole, some bad ideas never die.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama warned Thursday that if Congress doesn’t deliver health care legislation by the end of the year the opportunity will be lost, a plea to political supporters to pressure lawmakers to act.
“If we don’t get it done this year, we’re not going to get it done,” Obama told supporters by phone as he flew home on Air Force One from a West Coast fundraising trip.
Obama’s political organization, Organizing for America, invited campaign volunteers to a midday conference call to describe a nationwide June 6 kickoff for its health care campaign.
The president’s message to his re-election campaign-in-waiting was simple: If volunteers don’t pressure lawmakers to support the White House’s goal on health care, Washington would drag its feet and nothing would change.
“The election in November, it didn’t bring about change. It gave us an opportunity for change,” Obama said.
But who said change is always good?
I’ll admit that our current way of doing health care here in America is far from perfect. That being said, I much prefer a system where I can always purchase as much health care as I can afford – even if I can’t always afford as much as I may need – than a system where some third party (like, ahem, the government) is deciding how much health care I can get best not on what’s best for me but on what’s best for them.
