Obama's Health Care Speech - Creeping Government Takeover
President Barack Obama's health care speech had a lot of -- how shall I say -- slippery assertions. One that particularly struck me is this:
In 1965, when some argued that Medicare represented a government takeover of health care, members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, did not back down.
Well, maybe Medicare has not been a complete government takeover of health care yet, but already about 46 percent of all medical care expenses today are paid for by federal, state, and local governments, e.g., Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). What we've experienced is a creeping government takeover of health care of which Obama's "plan" can be seen as the next slither down that path.
