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Obamacare: Like Hillarycare, Only With More Socialism

But don't take my word for it.

Obama says his health package does more
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"Cost is the number one reason that 47 million Americans do not have health insurance and thousands more are edging toward bankruptcy every day," Obama told a town hall-style meeting of about 350 people at a Council Bluffs high school. "That is wrong, and it's why my plan does more to cut the cost of health insurance than any other proposal in this race."

If the problem is cost and if government can dictate that cost without triggering monumentally destructive unintended consequences, then let's quit these half-measures altogether and just cut the cost by 100%.  And why stop at healthcare?  Millions of Americans are improperly nourished too.  Millions more are forced to live in cramped quarters, with rationed air conditioning, basic cable, and a lower level of general opulence than they would prefer, were "cost" not an issue.

Once we lay the awkward, heavy hand of government on these items (starting of course with healthcare, as the most vital service category), access to and quality of care are bound to flourish, quieting economists, historians, and reasoned thinkers everywhere, and blazing a trail toward a true workers' paradise (something the world has really been wanting to try out).  I for one am hopeful, despite the gloomy theoretical and empirical evidence suggesting it might end poorly.

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Obamacare: Like Hillarycare, Only With More Socialism

But don't take my word for it.

Obama says his health package does more
...
"Cost is the number one reason that 47 million Americans do not have health insurance and thousands more are edging toward bankruptcy every day," Obama told a town hall-style meeting of about 350 people at a Council Bluffs high school. "That is wrong, and it's why my plan does more to cut the cost of health insurance than any other proposal in this race."

If the problem is cost and if government can dictate that cost without triggering monumentally destructive unintended consequences, then let's quit these half-measures altogether and just cut the cost by 100%.  And why stop at healthcare?  Millions of Americans are improperly nourished too.  Millions more are forced to live in cramped quarters, with rationed air conditioning, basic cable, and a lower level of general opulence than they would prefer, were "cost" not an issue.

Once we lay the awkward, heavy hand of government on these items (starting of course with healthcare, as the most vital service category), access to and quality of care are bound to flourish, quieting economists, historians, and reasoned thinkers everywhere, and blazing a trail toward a true workers' paradise (something the world has really been wanting to try out).  I for one am hopeful, despite the gloomy theoretical and empirical evidence suggesting it might end poorly.