- "This was never about improving citizens' health, but about expanding Big Government.
- As a senator,
Obama voted against every moderate proposal for healthcare reform, on the cynical calculation - that the worse things got the more receptive the public would be to his Stalinist scheme.
American healthcare needs reform, but not Obama's totalitarian aggression against citizens' wallets, privacy and liberties.- Forget 46 million uninsured Americans (Obama's claim, 5 March) requiring massive Federal assistance.
- The Census Bureau has identified 9.7 million of them as non-citizens.
- Altogether, 35.9 million Americans are without health insurance. Of these, 8.3 million earn $50,000-$75,000, 9.1 million more than $75,000, but choose not to insure themselves.
- Of the 20 million, at most, who cannot afford insurance, 45% will be covered within four months by employers as they move between jobs.
- The number of citizens earning less than $50,000 and unqualified for insurance is estimated at
- between 8.2 million and 13.9 million.
The market, guided by moderate laws imposing accountability on private insurers, can make adequate provision. The retreat began when Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, declared recently that taxpayer-funded insurance was "not the essential element"....Last Monday, the Pew Research Center reported Obama's approval rate down to a critical 51%, just For a flesh-and-blood politician, such plummeting popularity would be alarming; but this is the messiah – The One – the holistic president who was supposed to unify a troubled nation. That delusion has been exploded."...Richard Nixon! How great is that!
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