Obama preaches change - is he watching this? - Granite Grok

Obama preaches change – is he watching this?

I caught this little ditty over at Powerline on a large change in healthcare in Canada:

Claude Castonguay is the father of socialized medicine in Canada. In the 1960s, he chaired a Quebec commission whose recommendation of a government-run health care system for that province was adopted, and quickly spread to the rest of the country. Now, after forty years of experience with socialized medicine, Castonguay has changed his mind:

Four decades later, as the chairman of a government committee reviewing Quebec health care this year, Castonguay concluded that the system is in "crisis."

"We thought we could resolve the system’s problems by rationing services or injecting massive amounts of new money into it," says Castonguay. But now he prescribes a radical overhaul: "We are proposing to give a greater role to the private sector so that people can exercise freedom of choice."

A novel idea! When the first countries adopted socialized medicine, it was a mistake. For the U.S. to do it now, in the face of disastrous experience wherever it has been tried, would be a crime.

It never ceases to amaze me that the Dems want to go full speed ahead on the wish that "we know better" when people all over the globe, smarter than them (and me) haven’t been able to make it work.  So ask yourself – what new wrinkle are they proposing that would make it work this time?

Freedom of choice – that is what Obama and the Dems want to take away from you for your own good. It will NEVER the be case that they can come up with an angle that will make it work for as when people have free healthcare, there will be no governor on its usage (except for what was admitted above – rationing).

I followed the link from Powerline over to Moonbattery:

Castonguay has been forced to reverse his views because authoritarianism has made such a mess of healthcare in Canada, people enter lotteries to win a doctor’s appointment. Fortunately Canadians are still able to cross the border to a free country, where all you have to do to get medical attention is be willing to pay for it. But if Democrats have their way, that won’t be the case for much longer.

Freedom works. Socialism doesn’t work. Yet socialism means more power for the authorities, so we will have to keep fighting it off, no matter how many times it has been exposed as fundamentally dysfunctional.

Well said – now THAT is speaking truth to power (er, I still hate that phrase….)!

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