On the third hour of Dennis Prager’s radio show today, he quoted President Obama saying that no government bureaucrat or insurance bureaucrat will stand between you and the health care you need.
Dennis: "The happiness of the Left is not rooted in the present. Liberal happiness, and the further left you go the more true it is, is all rooted in what will happen. The New Soviet Man. The New Frontier. They cheer that President Obama – that’s one powerful dude — will make sure that no government bureaucrat will stand between you and the healthcare you need.
"Why doesn’t he stand between you and the care you need at the motor vehicles bureau? Because it can’t be done.
"That’s the line that most got me last night."
President Obama says his healthcare proposals will pay for themselves. Sure they will. He says, not because it is true, but because it is essential for selling the plan. Which government plans pay their way? The Post Office?
We don’t want to help the least among us because we don’t believe in increased government intervention into health care? Maybe we can show that the least among us do better in societies where the government does not take over?
You might say that the government is not taking over health. It is only offering a public option. That isn’t true.
It is said of us that we’re spreading fears.
How will it not take over when it legislates how companies will operate?
When the government has a monopoly, do you think it will be better for the least of your brethren? I’m happy to argue on moral grounds.
Fifty three new federal agencies are created by the prospective health care bill. This is frightening. Has anything been improved because of the federal department of education? Of energy? Let us take care of ourselves. On those rare occasions when we cannot take care of ourselves and our neighbors and our local charities and churches can not take care of our neighbors, then, yes, as a last resort, we will go to the state. The American system has worked because it has not relied on the state.
