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Barack’s Hypocrisy on Health Care

By Larry Johnson on June 28, 2009 at 12:40 PM in Current Affairs

You’ve heard of NIMBY? (i.e., Not In My Back Yard). Meet the cousin, NIIIMK (i.e., Not If It Is My Kid). So Barack Obama is trying to sell a Health Care plan that, at the end of the day, will leave families in the position of being told by a government bureaucrat that they can’t get care for a loved one because it is “experimental” or “too costly.”

Here’s a video snippet from Barack’s ABC sponsored Health Care Infomercial:

Now let’s give Barack credit for an honest answer.

He wants the best for his family. I think the traditional conservative argument against universal health care is delusional. If you are a conservative and serve in the U.S. military then you use and rely on government funded health care. If you retired from the miliary or the CIA or the FBI, etc. then you rely on government funded health care. If you are a Federal government employee then you rely on government funded health care.

So don’t tell me that U.S. Government funded health care is pernicious or bad. We have a great health care system if you happen to work for the U.S. Government. You have choice. You can determine how much choice you want in your program depending on who you choose as your provider.

I do not pretend that there is a simple answer to the issue of providing health insurance for all Americans. Although I consider myself a fiscal conservative I think that every American does have a right to healthcare. You should not be at the mercy of an insurance company deciding whether or not you are an appropriate risk to ensure. Your ability to receive healthcare should not be a function of how much money you have. My son, for example, was born premature and suffered a massive brain hemorrhage at birth. He survived but has that “medical scar” on his records. If we had not worked for the Federal Government we could not have afforded to buy the insurance and probably would have been rejected for coverage.

Unfortunately as the healthcare debate unfolds it appears that Barack Obama wants to continue a system that provides special favors for the wealthy and well-connected while leaving the child born to a single-mother who is not financially well-off at the mercy of a government bureaucrat. What do you think?