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.
Instead of simply stating “you need to do some reading” and promoting a book which you most likely did not write, why not briefly and logically explain what, precisely, is “Hitleresque” about the comments/proposals attributed to John McCain in the above article?
theFIRMbss - I agree with your comment. (I also despise Sen. McCain).
Way past due for McCain to retire or be retired.
You are, of course, entitled to your opinion, but were I a Republican, I would NOT want to even dream that I was in the same party as Juan McLame. He has done NOTHING but sell out your party his whole political life, from the Keating scandals to the Gang of 14 to CFR to the border to amnesty for illegals. But what makes him IMPOSSIBLE for me to stomach was the way he shut down hearings on LIVE SIGHTINGS (with credible evidence) of MY brothers in Vietnam, he and John Eff’n Kerry. You think what you want of him and that’s fine, but to many of us he is a vile, loathsome and disgusting POS who has breathed our air for far too long.
It is not well known that the Nazis made TV programs in the 30s that were shown in theater-like viewings. These are available from Netflix, and what is amazing is how much they are like today’s various nagging public service and health pronouncements. It was the state telling people how to eat, exercise, run a household, etc., and they often showcased the latest government-run school for various trades. Just like today...
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