By John Fielding
Obama, in his public appearances, has taken to contradicting himself. In several town halls, he has pointed out Medicare as a bright and shining star of government achievement. And it is true that the seniors have come to depend on the government dole in the form of senior health care. And Obama has pointed out that the very seniors that are clutching Medicare to their bosoms with the grip of death are the very ones so concerned about a government health care takeover.
However, then Obama, sometimes in the same speech, will point out how Medicare is running out of money, thus implying that the program is unsustainable in its present form. Well, if this program is unsustainable, how will the new public option be sustained? And what happens to those whose major health care issues pop up in the last years of their lives in a system of limited resources that is dedicated to allocation of scarce health care resources?
Further, government does not encourage innovation and does not reward achievement. From where are the new health care initiatives and inventions to come? And why would new medical students want to become government slugs, only able to earn up to some government cap ("from each according to his ability; to each according to his needs"). The entire mess sounds like a prescription for a latter day incarnation of the Twentieth Century Motor Company from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
Obama need look no further than his own speeches for a "shovel-ready" project.
Obama, in his public appearances, has taken to contradicting himself. In several town halls, he has pointed out Medicare as a bright and shining star of government achievement. And it is true that the seniors have come to depend on the government dole in the form of senior health care. And Obama has pointed out that the very seniors that are clutching Medicare to their bosoms with the grip of death are the very ones so concerned about a government health care takeover.
However, then Obama, sometimes in the same speech, will point out how Medicare is running out of money, thus implying that the program is unsustainable in its present form. Well, if this program is unsustainable, how will the new public option be sustained? And what happens to those whose major health care issues pop up in the last years of their lives in a system of limited resources that is dedicated to allocation of scarce health care resources?
Further, government does not encourage innovation and does not reward achievement. From where are the new health care initiatives and inventions to come? And why would new medical students want to become government slugs, only able to earn up to some government cap ("from each according to his ability; to each according to his needs"). The entire mess sounds like a prescription for a latter day incarnation of the Twentieth Century Motor Company from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
Obama need look no further than his own speeches for a "shovel-ready" project.
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