Obey's Utopia?
We all have seen Obey's quotes on health care over the years . . . one of which was that he would voluntarily retire if Congress would pass a nationalized health care system. Obey staunchly believes our neighbor to the North, Canada, had it right when it came to providing health care to its citizens. Anyone with an ounce of intellectual honesty knows that other than cheap drugs (subsidized and price fixed by the Canadian government) Canada is not a bastian of good health care. Canadian citizens who could afford it for years came to the United States for needed surgeries rather than sit on endless waiting lists.
Over at Cafe Hayek you'll find this post about the "death" of the Canadian system. After a Canadian Supreme Court decision last year saying the Canadian government could no longer make private health care providers illegal, private clinics are now springing up in Canada at the rate of one per week.
Wouldn't it be sadly ironic if Obey got his way and converted the United States to national single payer health care system and Canada's private system thrived - attracting thousands of U.S. doctors to go across the border and practice medicine?
The fact is, it's time for the government to be less involed in the health care system, not more. (Remember that Democrats pushed the HMO concept on the American people, boy that's been a winner). We should be breaking the old mold. We should have health insurers compete for individual's business rather than for big corporate/union contracts. If these companies had to compete for our business, they would offer a menu of health care options that would meet our needs, and be priced in a competitive way.
Dave Obey opposes this concept because he doesn't believe in the marketplace. He believes the government should solve our problems. It's a classic liberal ideology that has proven to be inoperable over and over again. It's crumbling in Canada (the Canadian people even threw out the liberal government in the most recent elections), and we won't have it here.
Over at Cafe Hayek you'll find this post about the "death" of the Canadian system. After a Canadian Supreme Court decision last year saying the Canadian government could no longer make private health care providers illegal, private clinics are now springing up in Canada at the rate of one per week.
Wouldn't it be sadly ironic if Obey got his way and converted the United States to national single payer health care system and Canada's private system thrived - attracting thousands of U.S. doctors to go across the border and practice medicine?
The fact is, it's time for the government to be less involed in the health care system, not more. (Remember that Democrats pushed the HMO concept on the American people, boy that's been a winner). We should be breaking the old mold. We should have health insurers compete for individual's business rather than for big corporate/union contracts. If these companies had to compete for our business, they would offer a menu of health care options that would meet our needs, and be priced in a competitive way.
Dave Obey opposes this concept because he doesn't believe in the marketplace. He believes the government should solve our problems. It's a classic liberal ideology that has proven to be inoperable over and over again. It's crumbling in Canada (the Canadian people even threw out the liberal government in the most recent elections), and we won't have it here.
posted by ObeyOut2006 at 12:56 PM
1 Comments:
Dave Obey is a liberal's liberal. He only throws some non-liberal looking votes on the board ocasionally so he can come back home and claim he's reasonable. But on the issues that matter, he marches pretty much lock step with big government, anti-free market liberals who believe they are smarter than the rest of us.
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