Say Anything Blog

This time not to their guns and religion and bigotry, but rather to their private health care system.  Because we dummies just don’t know what’s good for us, I guess.

Obama: Time To ‘Stop Clinging To’ Unworkable Health Care System

ANNANDALE, VA (ASSOCIATED PRESS) -  President Barack Obama says he recognizes the heavy price tag of revamping the health care system but that it would be much more costly to do nothing.

It seems to me that we’ve heard this argument about the “cost of doing nothing” being too high.  Didn’t we hear it when they wanted to bailout the banks?  Didn’t we hear it when they wanted to bail out the auto industry?  Didn’t we hear it when they wanted to pass the economic “stimulus” spending spree?

What Obama is voicing here isn’t genuine concern over American health care.  It’s a tactic.  He needs to create the impression that there is a crisis so that he can justify the sort of intrusive government maneuvering he wants.  Just like he used the economic down turn, and talk about the “cost of doing nothing”, to fear monger the bailouts and “stimulus” spending through Congress.

Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has said that the government can “never let a good crisis go to waste.”  That’s good advice for the proponents of big, fat, intrusive government.  And sometimes they even have to manufacture the perception of a crisis to get what they want done.

But while Obama talks about the “cost of doing nothing,” let’s keep in mind the cost of doing the something Obama wants.  Higher taxes.  Another massive government program our bankrupt government can’t afford.  And more government management of some of the most important and private aspect of lives.  Namely, our health.

Give me an imperfect system where I can get all the health care I can afford to pay for, knowing full well that I may not be able to buy all that I need, rather than a system where the government decides that for me.