Undermining socialized healthcare proponents like candidates Clinton, Obama, and Edwards (not to mention this useful idiot), all of whom treat government-run healthcare like it’s the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel, the Daily Mail reports today that Brits are running, not walking, away from socialized medicine:
While a majority of Americans trust Democrats on healthcare issues, they’re more with the President on the expansion of SCHIP:
Just when you think Democrats couldn’t get any more despicable comes the news that the family of the 12 year old boy they used on their radio address last weekend to promote the expansion of SCHIP – while chastizing the President, who vetoed it – are not as “needy” as they were made out to be, and probably could have afforded health insurance had they not chosen have their kids educated in private school to the tune of around $20,000 each per year, and chosen to live in a home that wasn’t over 3,000 sq ft in a neighborhood where one 2,000 sq ft home recently sold for $500,000. Mark Steyn has the details (h/t: Stop the ACLU).
I’ve blogged before about the administration’s opposition to the growth of SCHIP on the grounds that it would expand eligibility to people who really shouldn’t be eligible (not to mention expand the size and scope of the federal government). Those are sound reasons to oppose the expansion of SCHIP, but there’s another argument against expanding SCHIP that tops them all: It would lead the way to socialized healthcare here in the US, something Democrat hopefuls for president Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, among others, have essentially called for (although they strongly reject the term “socialized healthcare” because they don’t like that it calls their plans for what they are).
The top item at Memeorandum is a story that made the front page of the NYT today. The headline reads:
