The fundamental problem with implementing ANY kind of government-run healthcare scheme isn’t that people don’t support it, it’s that they expect everyone else but themselves to pay for it, as Karl has pointed out several times now. Well, if we are “out of money,” as Obama has said, who the hell is going to pay for it?

That’s why the Dems are floating things like this absurd, California-style “surcharge” on high-earner’s taxes to help pay for this nonsense.

Exactly.

Nice post. Clearly the US system towers above one payer, centralized systems. Such centralized systems do not provide healthcare, they ration it. The Left will not admit it.

When Medicare was proposed we were told it would reduce costs and cover more Americamns. What it did do was bankrupt the government and drive healthcare costs up through the roof. Government meddling is more responsible for the vast increase of medical costs compared to inflation, than any other factor. Compound government mandates such as emergency room service and you begin to see what government has wrought.

Americans understand the service and effectiveness of government everytime they call the IRS for information or have to deal with any government agency. I doubt anyone will believe that government control of healthcare will result in better healthcare.

And as always its hard to sell a program that the Congress speciffically exempts itself from.

Which is why Obama, in some basic ways, really is an ultra-liberal. But considering his background, with people like Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, should anyone be surprised by any of this?

True.
But sometimes, Washington really screws with government.