Why didn’t he talk about the spreading of HIV?

And this is part of the reason why Government / Socialized / Nationalized healthcare will fail (I’ll leave the crony capitalism, like when companies like GE go running to the Feds to take their position at the biggest financial teat possible):

Read the following missive from President Obama:

WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama on Saturday urged his fellow Americans to get tested for HIV in an effort to reduce transmission of the virus that causes AIDS.

"On this 14th commemoration of National HIV Testing Day, I urge Americans to take control of their own health — and protect those they love — by getting tested for HIV and working to reduce HIV transmission," Obama said in a statement.

"While its impacts are not evenly spread — infection rates are particularly high among gay and bisexual men, African Americans and Latinos — when one of our fellow citizens becomes infected with HIV every nine-and-a-half minutes, the epidemic affects all Americans," he said.

Obama noted that of the estimated 1.15 million people infected with HIV in the United States, more than 230,000 — one in five — do not know they are infected.

The US president last month unveiled a plan to commit 63 billion dollars over six years to battle chronic global health crises, including AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, a continuation of a landmark initiative launched by his predecessor George W. Bush.

This is as bad as President Bush who labeled the War on Terror just that and not what it really is – the "War by Islamofascists on Western culture". If one cannot, or refuses to, name the root cause of a problem, the problem cannot be solved.

Obama’s stated idea on driving healthcare costs down is to do more preventative care – catching things early in a prognostic manner.  Fine – that is a correct idea.  He and his wife have also been harping on the fact that we all have to be living more healthy lives – fine and dandy 

My problem?   When will Obama talk to the root cause of HIV spreading? That is where the Political Correctness holds sway – he won’t.

There are those unfortunate souls that have been infected by medical procedures (e.g., blood transfusions, contaminated medical devices) – my heart goes out to them as they have acquired AIDS through no fault of their own.  That said, the biggest transmission method is unprotected, promiscuous sex from those that are unmarried or cheating on their spouses – it cannot get any more basic than that. With the current air of "never assigning blame except to those cold, hearted conservatives", the message of the best of restricting the spread of AIDS, monogamous relationships for life, will never leave his lips nor become policy.

Obama wants all of us to get ourselves tested for HIV – what a silly idea for the vast majority of Americans and a HUGE waste of money. In this case, Obama is advocating only for a "second stage" level of responsibility – not concerning the act actually spreads the disease but for public money to be used to treat it after the fact.

Political correctness is going to further lead to a lessening of individual responsibility as he wishes to treat the results of poor behavior and not the behavior itself.

Freedom has a twin companion – self-responsibility.  Too often, it seems, freedom is more and more defined as freedom from responsibility as opposed to its real role – freedom can only be kept by exercising self-responsibility (and at times, self-restraint).  When one gives away one’s responsibility to a third party, one will become a slave to that third party.

Unfortunately, that’s what many crying out for nationalized healthcare want – they are willing to cede their freedom for healthcare security.  That is not being responsible.