Posted on 06/25/2009 6:46:24 AM PDT by quesney
Elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it's not provided by insurance.
Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn't seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he's proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.
The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if "it's my family member, if it's my wife, if it's my children, if it's my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
It's the progressive vision of rule by "experts". The unwashed masses are too stupid to make their own decisions, that's why they need administrators dictators czars and the like to do the thinking for them.
Colors:
I'm gonna be a mighty king, so enemies beware! I've never seen a king of beasts With quite so little hair I'm gonna be the mane event Like no king was before I'm brushing up on looking down I'm working on my roar Thus far a rather uninspiring thing Oh, I just can't wait to be king! No one saying do this Now when I said that-- No one saying be there What I meant was-- No one saying stop that What you don't realize-- No one saying see here Now see here! Free to run around all day That's definitely out-- Free to do it all my way! I think it's time that you and I Arranged a heart-to-heart Kings don't need advice From little hornbills for a start If this is where the monarchy is headed Count me out Out of service, out of Africa I wouldn't hang about This child is getting wildly out of wing Oh, I just can't wait to be king! Everybody look left Everybody look right Everywhere you look I'm-- Standing in the spotlight Not yet Let every creature go for broke and sing Let's hear it in the herd and on the wing It's gonna be King Simba's finest fling Oh, I just can't wait to be king! Oh, he just can't wait to be king! Oh, I just can't wait... Just can't wait To be king!
That makes sense. The Fuhrer lives by a seperate standard than the rest of us peasants.
The premise behind Roe v. Wade was that the state does not have the right to interfere in the medical decisions of a patient and a doctor and further that the state cannot inquire into the medical conditions of citizens because of the RIGHT OF PRIVACY.
The implementation of a forced government controlled health care industry would involve a wholesale destruction of any notion of medical "privacy" as enunciated in Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade.
Someone needs to start asking these congressmen and the president if they are now advocating that the constitutional "right of privacy" enunciated in Roe is no longer applicable to the states or the federal government?
Again, you get it. The average progressive peon either secretly lusts after the power of the elites for themselves (but usually settle for working on a HOA board or some grievance0-mongering busybody organization) or truly believe that they are too stupid to make their own life decisions and need a superior/Nanny State/National Father(*barf*)/”expert” to rule them.
That I sincerely believe. And I fear that some are compromised because their participation in the most despicable acts.
To me it is the only way to explain their votes in congress.
Just like all the limousine liberal elites.
The quicker that conservatives realize that, the better off we will be.
Well said.
The better question would be: who wants to make them making healthcare decisions for others?
Leftists want to use this power to punish and eliminate ideological opposition. Speak out too much, you're "on the list" and you and your family receive "extra scrutiny" on your medical care and what you'll be allowed to have.
will Kennedy too take this plan , or will he stay with his plan which gives him that great coverage he recently got
what a crock this is, I come from a country with national health care and it DOES NOT WORK
are you reading this left wing trolls?
National health care does not work I know as I come from the UK
“The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.
Just like all the limousine liberal elites.”
Hey, at least he’s honest about it.
In reading the article you have to ask again and again, why would anyone allow Barack Obama or these other idiot politicians to meddle in which care you “really” need?
If one of these politicians showed up telling me my family doesn’t need certain procedures and we will solve it all with “prevention” I’d throw them out of the house.
My wife who is a cancer survivor and has lived healthy her whole life might want to do worse to them and it’s hard to blame her.
Re: post 42
Jim:
I think Rush would love to use this as a parody song if no one elese has already thought of it.
Can you get it to his people?
Just like: “We'll be the most transparent administration in history”, or “I will never have any lobbyists in my administration”, and all the other bullshit he bluffed his way through the White House door with, he knows he can say anything he wants to because the press threw away the rewind button on their VCR’s.
No one will ever look back and hold him accountable for anything.
And why are we surprised?
Every “progressive” from 0bama down to the pimply hemp-stinkin’ “liberal” on your smallest junior college campus
consider themselves to be “the elite”.
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