More Red State, But This One Deserves Its Own Post

Ron Johnson, the Republican who defeated Russ Feingold for a Senate seat in Wisconsin last November with the help of Tea Bag millions from out of state, has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.   He talks about his daughter, who was born with her aorta and pulmonary artery reversed. He is trying to maintain that she would likely have died under the new U.S. health care plan. Absolutely untrue, and disgusting of him to manipulate readers with the story of a family crisis.

"My daughter probably wouldn't have survived in a system where bureaucrats stifle innovation and ration care.

"Today is the first anniversary of the greatest single assault on our freedom in my lifetime: the signing of ObamaCare [I would have said it was the PATRIOT Act, but ...] .... She wasn't saved by a bureaucrat, and no government mandate forced her parents to purchase the coverage that saved her. Instead, her care was provided under a run-of-the-mill plan available to every employee of an Oshkosh, Wis., plastics plant [and, of course, would still be available today]....

"I don't even want to think what might have happened if she had been born at a time and place where government defined the limits for most insurance policies and set precedents [sic] on what would be covered. Would the life-saving procedures that saved her have been deemed cost-effective by policy makers deciding where to spend increasingly scarce tax dollars [and will the death panel pull the plug on grandma?]?

Associated Press

President Obama signing the health care bill on March 23, 2010 [Look at that smug bastard signing away Americans' liberty!].

"According to McKinsey and Co., thousands of foreigners come to the United States every year for medical care they cannot get at home—due to rationing or because it is simply not provided [or because they are wealthy people from undeveloped nations, like the Shah of Iran].... The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was sprung on an unsuspecting public with barely enough time for anyone to read it [Really? I thought it was debated for about a year].... I am convinced that ObamaCare was designed to lead to a government takeover of our entire health-care system ... [Right, without even a public option, let alone single payer, simply mandating that private health insurance companies acquire 40 million new customers; this is "taking over the entire system".] Instead of expanding access to care, it will ration it [untrue, except in the sense that every health care system, including the old U.S. one, rations care by making choices between limited alternatives, only now it's the doctor and the family doing it instead of the insurance companies].

".... We need to recognize that the finest health-care system in the world is at risk—and repeal ObamaCare before it's too late."

[I can't begin to count the number of times I have read this preposterous lie in print and seen it on TV.  In one of my recent posts, Bill Gates is quoted as saying: "I’d take any rich country’s medical system over ours. Ours is provably the worst. [Audience laughter]. It is the most expensive and the least equitable."]

The Americans have the best health care in the world -- for those who can afford it.  But to call it the best health-care system in the world is a travesty.