Monday, July 2, 2012

Obamacare: Another Example of Utopian Foolishness


ibt ^ | 7/1/2012 | By Kayleigh McEnany


The Supreme Court has spoken, the president has spoken, and Congress has spoken. Now it is time for the American people to speak. In four months, Americans will have a choice. We can choose to elect a vision that is true to what America is -- a country where freedom is cherished, hard work is rewarded, and handouts are adverse to our very nature. Or we can re-elect a vision very much at odds with this foundation, a vision whose fruits are destroying America at its very core.

The latter vision produced Obamacare, a piece of legislation that amounts to little more than utopian foolishness. President Barack Obama and the Democrats told us health care was a human right and they were here to ride in on their white horses and deliver that right. They misled the people -- either by intent or ignorance -- into believing this. One problem: Health care for all is an empirical impossibility, and the Democratic promises were nothing more than the hollow words of a devout ideologue.

The simple truth is health care must be rationed. This is a nonnegotiable; the rules of supply and demand require it. The United States was already facing a physician shortage before the passage of Obamacare, which only exacerbated this shortage.
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