Is ObamaCare Really Heritage FoundationCare?

wkmac

Well-Known Member
Individual mandates and treating medical insurance as income seems the latest rage against Obama but where did such ideas really come from? Let's turn the clock back to 1989' and the Heritage Foundation's "Assuring Affordable Healthcare for all Americans" and beginning at page 3 under the title "The Heritage Plan" you'll read some very familiar ideas. Also, wanna destroy the conservative/liberal/democrat/republican narrative with healthcare? Again, read starting at page 3.

To really begin to understand the entire healthcare picture in this country, one would need to go back at least to 1910' and the Flexner Report, properly known as Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Bulletin #4, and then come forward following both money and power.

The late economist Murray Rothbard (1926-1995) wrote of the problems in healthcare that skew the system against the patient, against low cost and towards what we have and that's high profits mostly for 3rd parties whose rent seeking in the process has come as a result of intervention by public policy.
 

Jones

fILE A GRIEVE!
Staff member
In 2007, Republican Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina sent a letter to President George W. Bush.
DeMint said he would like to work with Bush to pass legislation that would “ensure that all Americans would have affordable, quality, private health coverage, while protecting current government programs. We believe the health care system cannot be fixed without providing solutions for everyone. Otherwise, the costs of those without insurance will continue to be shifted to those who do have coverage.”

Read that closely. DeMint does not say he wants legislation that would ensure all Americans have “access” to coverage -- the standard rhetorical dodge of politicians who don’t want to oppose universal coverage, but also don’t want to do what’s necessary to achieve it. He says that he wants legislation that ensures all American actually have coverage. He says that without making sure every American has coverage, “the health care system cannot be fixed.” For good measure, DeMint wants to achieve this “while protecting current government programs.”

DeMint was not alone. Signatories to the letter included Democratic Senators Maria Cantwell, Kent Conrad, Herb Kohl, Ken Salazar and Ron Wyden, and Republican Senators Robert Bennett, Mike Crapo, Trent Lott and John Thune. But it’s DeMint’s involvement that seems, in retrospect, most remarkable.

Do Republicans Really Want Universal Health Care?
 
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