Posted by
Compassionate Conservative on Sunday, August 23, 2009 9:14:27 PM
Another wasted effort for the editors of the Harrisburg Patriot-News. They should hire me to be a columnist, but I'm not holding my breath.
"Guest columnist Dr. William R. Davidson apparently hoped for Americans to provide the President with backbone, but instead they've provided him with brains. Dr. Davidson is the one who vastly underestimates the American people if he thinks they're going to fall for implementing a government health care plan. Seniors have seen how well Medicare works, and veterans have had more than enough experience with VA health care to not want to foist that system onto the general public.
Average Americans understand quite well how government-provided health care works, and they're the ones, not "powerful interests vested in the status quo" or "vigilantes," whoever they might be, that are preventing passage of any bill that puts the feds in the health insurance business. If socialists like Davidson want to resurrect "single payer" health insurance at the state level, more power to them. Better to have it wreck the economy of one state, as Wisconsin is currently considering doing, than the economy of the whole nation.
Does Davidson really believe for one second that providing health care insurance for an additional 47 million people who don't pay for it now, including illegal aliens, is going to be cheaper? Not only is it possible to rebut that argument, it's easy. Physicians should really stick to the business of healing and leave economic matters to economists. "