Obama Says He Would Opt Out Of Government Health Care Plan If His Wife, Children Were Sick
Perhaps the most telling question and answer from last night’s health care informercial:
DR. DAVINSKI: If your wife or your daughter became seriously ill, and things were not going well, and the plan physicians told you they were doing everything that could be done, and you sought out opinions from some medical leaders in major centers and they said there’s another option you should pursue, but it was not covered in the plan, would you potentially sacrifice the health of your family for the greater good of insuring millions or would you do everything you possibly could as a father and husband to get the best health care and outcome for your family?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: … does she get hip replacement surgery even though she was fragile enough that they weren’t sure how long she would last whether she could get through the surgery. I think families all across America are going through decisions like that all the time. and you’re absolutely right that if it’s my family member, my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care. but here’s the problem that we have in our current health care system. Is that there is a whole bunch of care that’s being provided that every study, every bit of evidence that we have indicates may not be making us healthier.
Now, this might be a bad answer if you buy into Obama’s claims that a government health care plan would create more choices in the health care market. The problem is that the government option will eliminate competition in the health care industry through regulation and cost, leaving the government option as just about the only viable option for most Americans.
Of course, people like Obama with plenty of financial resources would be able to opt out of a government plan. But most Americans don’t have Obama’s resources, and would be stuck with what the government gave them.
Which is exactly why we shouldn’t want government health care.
