Posted on 08/27/2009 4:41:42 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
That’s what he said, albeit with the omission of “Hitler-esque,” last night at his town hall meeting in North Central Phoenix. During his introductory speech, after hammering the Democrats for trying to push through the “public option” (a euphemism for socialized healthcare), he then went on to describe ways healthcare costs could be brought down, emphasizing, “We have the best quality healthcare in the world. Our goal is to preserve the quality (of healthcare) while making it more affordable.”
His three main ideas to bring down healthcare costs: 1) Freeing up insurance markets and competition so Americans can buy different policies across state lines. (Okey-dokey, there. Doesn’t sound too bad. Competition almost always leads to lower prices, unless the competition unites to fix prices, or, the government “option” itself fixes prices through price controls—Obama’s illiterate idea of “competition.”); 2) Tort reform. (Stricter laws against frivolous lawsuits protecting productive citizens—America’s physicians—against blood-sucking creeps like John Edwards. Then make the loser pay. Rather than hiring ignorant federal bureaucrats to tell physicians how to do their jobs, a little tort reform would lower costs by eliminating the need for physicians to perform unneeded tests. Socialists, in their typical class-warfare zeal, blindly believe that physicians conspire around the world to repress the masses by testing them too much in order to increase costs. They don’t. I know, personally, because my father is a physician and many other members of my family have worked in the healthcare business their entire lives—as physicians, nurses or administrators. The scary people in white coats perform the extra tests so they don’t get sued out of existence by, again, creeps like John Edwards.); and lastly 3) “Wellness incentives.” (Uh-oh.)
McCain was on the right track until he hit this number. Of course, being a mainstream Republican, he’s not really in favor of de-socializing (that is, liberalizing) medicine to the extent that it’s already socialized. In order to do that, he would have to favor privatizing Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. McCain (nor any other mainstream Republican, for that matter) will ever favor such sensible moves toward freeing our healthcare system from government control. Now he’s proposing (and probably considering “reaching across the aisle” again) a classical fascist initiative: giving Americans incentives to live healthier lives, that is, lives the government deems healthy. In his speech, he targeted smokers, drinkers and crackled on about the “obesity problem.” Great. The health Nazis and fun-suckers (thank you, P.J. O’Rourke) have a new hero to cry to in their crusade to evade and fight death as they force others to live miserable, guilt-ridden lives until their time comes. To any historian or average American willing to spend some work-time on the internet, it’s no secret that Hitler was an avid promoter of health-consciousness. As the Hitler Youth used to say: “Your nutrition is not a private matter!” Obama and McCain agree.
bttt
is there anyway we can get the Republican party to entice Mr. McCain to sit down and shut up.
ya maybe he needs death counil
I wonder if Cindy would pull the plug on Johno?
i would hope so..
I can’t believe that this man ran against Obama in the last election. It’s like he threw the election
McSTOOGE.............
Nothing this Clown does can surprise me.
HE’s A WALKING BOZO for the Democratic Party!
It is not a coincidence that the promoters of government run "health care" are blurring the lines between physical fitness promotion and medical care. The first is a liberty issue involving your own choices for your own behavior. The second is a consumer issue involving a very personal but professional contractual relationship that you seek out when you need it not want it.
These two fields of health concern, which both have large industries built on them, are related but are not the same. The medical field is burdened enough with treatment of and recovery from disease and injury. Doctors and nurses don't need to be told to encourage their patients to take personal responsibility for their own health. They have always done so.
But they don't need the burden and the unethical practice of being nannies over the lifestyles of their patients. And that is exactly what the government has been pressuring medical practitioners to do for some time and intends to force more of on them with the philosophy of "Universal" health care.
Reject government intrusion into your life through your doctor's office and your pharmacist's shop. This goes way beyond restricting where you can smoke and what oil your restaurant fries its chicken in. They are redesigning the medical field to become government agents in charge of how you live your life.
In every case where the natinalsocialsits came to pwer in Europe, the conservatiive political class was destroyed ecnomically and socially.
Maybe you might think twice and read.
We are far beyond any possibility of nobless oblige.
Nice try with the veiled attack on Sarah Palin right there.
Conservatism is also about learning from the past and not repeating history's mistakes. And, to that end, no one here is "dredging up demons" but rather attempting to ensure that the horrors of the various twentieth century experiments in collectivism, fascism, statism, communism, and assorted other -isms are not buried and placed out of sight, lest twenty-first century America go down the same path as the failed states of the twentieth century.
Well said!
I thought some of McCain’s favorite words were “Party on, dudes.” How can he lecture anybody about wellness?
Please, let him lose the primary.
“There’s noting Hitleresque about anything McCain said, though the author is entitled to make a fool of himself.”
No there isn’t. Some folks nowadays get a little too wild with the Hitler/Nazi references. We saw it with the Dems and Bush and we see it with some well meaning folks now. 95% of the time when somebody plays the Hitler or Nazi card they come out looking foolish.
I’m no fan of John McCain, but:
1) Encouraging the free market - WOW! That is JUST what Hitler did in Nazi Germany. /s
2) Tort Reform - Oh how very “Hiltleresque”! /s
3) Wellness Incentives - Why SHOULDN’T people who take better care of themselves (and trust me, I am NOT one of them) get better health insurance rates than those of us who don’t? Better drivers get lower car insurance rates; lower risk folks get better homeowner’s insurance rates. What’s the difference? Unless the “inecentives” become “directives” there is nothing even remotely Fascist about this proposal. (NOT /s)
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