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There have been a couple of times I’ve been prescient…

As I am wont to do, I surfed over onto this post and something caught my eye about Obama’s overreach to one-size-fit-all healthcare system that worked oh so well in other countries:

Yesterday President Obama was crying about the fact that people have not signed on to his website. It’s because the website is broken. The fact they poured 648 millions on this site will make you scream. They didn’t test the site until one week till the opening of the website. This site is a glorify geo cities website. In fact i think they use AOL as the servers. The fact that a government agency have this much problem with the website tell you how bad obamacare is. Then Obama gave out a phone number that basically when typed out is F you when you dial the number. Thou the number is about as bad as the website always busy and you can’t get a hold of anyone.

…This all a ruse for Obama to implement the single payer health plan that have harmed people of many countries like Russia, China,England and Cuba This idea will not work why? Ask Hawaii Ex. Governor Linda Lingle she had a plan like single payer for kids in Hawaii but she was quick to find out that people were taking advantage of that…

I remember posting up about that ill-fated Hawaii attempt for universal single payer healthcare – for kids – back in 2008.Thanks to Progressives, the traditional American ethos of self-sufficiency, make do or do without, and self-responsibility for one and one’s family has crumbled in the tsunami of entitlement programs from all levels of Government.  Hawaii is a relatively small state and it took fairly little time to test that low bar set of “will people take for free instead of paying for it themselves?”

And now, another universal healthcare attempt has suffered an untimely death:

Hawaii ending universal child health care

HONOLULU – Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched.

Gov. Linda Lingle’s administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care options for eliminating funding for the program. A state official said families were dropping private coverage so their children would be eligible for the subsidized plan.

“People who were already able to afford health care began to stop paying for it so they could get it for free,” said Dr. Kenny Fink, the administrator for Med-QUEST at the Department of Human Services. “I don’t believe that was the intent of the program.“…

…State health officials argued that most of the children enrolled in the universal child care program previously had private health insurance, indicating that it was helping those who didn’t need it.

Gee, and I thought “universal” meant “everyone”; or are we speaking governmentalesse again?

And this is a surprise….why?  Is it that hard of a question to believe that people act in their own self interest?  Oh please – no one in government thought that anyone would try to “game the system”?  Of COURSE they will – why spend their own money on a “necessity” when someone else will pay for it?

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