Kerry Care

According to the official web site, John Kerry wants to use the federal government to massively alter health care in America. The plan, as it appears on the site is lone on platitudes and very, very short on details. Take for instance the stated intention to address the "crisis" of rising insurance premiums.

Cut Your Premiums
John Kerry and John Edwards will cut family premiums by up to $1,000. That's $1,000 in real savings people can use to buy groceries, pay the bills, and save for their children's future.

How he's going to somehow reduce medical insurance premiums for the children. There is no indication how he intends to do that. Realistically, even his wife's money wouldn't cover it.

Here's another unexplained plan to change some aspect of the medical/insurance industry. But it's O.K. this one is for the children too

Cover All Americans With Quality Care
The Kerry-Edwards plan Kerry-Edwards will give every American access to the range of high-quality, affordable plans available to members of Congress and extend coverage to 95 percent of Americans, including every American child

The "Kerry-Edwards Plan" whatever it may be will also reduce prescription drug prices. They do provide a little detail here. They plan to "end artificial barriers to generic drug competition". My guess is that means getting rid of patents.

There is really only one way for the government to institute this volume of change over an industry as large as health care in the Unites States. And that would be by taking it over completely. The Kerry-Edwards Plan is a blueprint for Socialized Medicine. It is Hillary Care in a new package, with a new name.

The march toward socialized medicine (and actually it has been rather more of slow shuffle) has been constant. Even the current administration helped the cause with the passage if its Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. One of the largest vote buying schemes entitlements enacted since the War on Poverty.

This shuffle needs to be stopped, and we need to start running in the other direction. Socialized medicine is a precursor to socialized everything. And don't let the politicians on either side of the aisle fool you. None of this is new. it has been tried time and again. Each time, the Plan is defeated, but not without making some small inroads on our freedom.

What is needed to not only stop this latest attack but to reverse some of the losses of the past, is for the people of America who value their freedom to take action. What we need is a modern day equivalent of Operation Coffee Cup. Operation Coffee cup was a grass roots effort organized to fight the advance of socialized medicine. The centerpiece of the campaign was an album of a speech by Ronald Reagan.

JohnL of TexasBestGrok has a remarkably preserved copy of the album that he has converted to MP3 format. Some of things Reagan was speaking against are now, sadly,the law of the land. But that can be changed. And any chance to hear The Great Communicator speak so plainly on one of his favorite topics, freedom, is always welcome.

Here is the introrduction to the speech. For the rest of Reagan's words and the other parts of Operation Coffee Cup you need to go here.

Posted by: Stephen Macklin at 05:58 PM | Comments (1) | Add Comment