Health Care: The Only Statistic That Matters

From Bruce Kessler of Maggie’s Farm:

Similarly, our increased national and per capita spending on health care is the cumulation of free individual choices. Polling shows the tilt against ObamaCare, regardless of all the underlying opposing and supporting statistics, actually not regardless but because they’ve been considered and synthsized by sane individual calculations. The core understanding of free people is increasing that the essence of Obamacare is neither cost reductions nor improved health care. Its essence is transferring our individual choices to the imperfect, impersonal, and – even with the best of intentions and efforts, though required rationing is always life endangering to at least some – naturally politicized and prejudiced hands of Washington bureaucrats and their NGO hanger-ons who gain power and profit from controlling our lives. There’s some nuggets within ObamaCare that may be worth further exploring or experimenting with, but ObamaCare buries them within a wholesale, rapid, complete takeover of America’s health care and rejection of other worthy but non-liberal nuggets.

ObamaCare’s polling rejection is a reliable statistic that cuts through all the other murkier ones. If we allow Washington politics to override that, there’s no going back, except maybe in a retrospective statistic of what we’ve irretrievably lost as life-saving and quality of life medical innovation and our rapid access to quality diminishes.

There is a vague, and valid, unease about the health care meddling. Government run health care looks bad where it’s implemented.

The only hope is that people pay little attention, including Senators. The only hope for the Obama administration is that people feel they will get something for nothing and that during this economic misery, people see government run health care as a way out of their troubles. That’s the only hope.

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Tags: Economy • Health care • Obama