Government Health Care Bill: It Is All About Rationing

Americans need to understand the proposed government health care is all about rationing care. A large number of the provisions in this bill are just sickening. Below is a link to the House version of the bill.

House Version of Health Care Bill (PDF)

Page 16. Eliminates private health insurance by banning future enrollments.

Page 425 (bottom of page 424). Requires individuals to go through end of life counseling every five years.

Page 407. Community organizations, i.e., ACORN, receive grants to enroll new members.

Betsy McCaughey, PhD, former Lt. Governor of the State of New York, has read the bill in its entirety. Her interview on the Fred Thompson shows is a must listen to audio clip:

Fred Thompson Show Interview: Betsy McCaughey

Passage of any version of this bill will be disastrous as it relates to our current health care system. This is not to say we don't need to make changes in our current system. It's simply the plan being proposed by Congress is far from the right way to approach it.

Lastly, we hear politicians touting the European health care system and how the U.S. system needs to move in that direction. A recent article in Forbes, Sweden's Public Downsizing, contains an interview with the country's Finance Minister noting how their welfare state has nearly bankrupt the country. The country is moving away from the welfare state model.

An excerpt:

...the 1970s and 1980s were lost decades for Sweden. Left-leaning politicians pushed government spending, excluding investment outlays, from 22% of gross domestic product in 1970 to 30% in 1980. Real growth fell from an average of 4.4% annually in the 1960s to 2.4% in the 1970s and remained low for the next two decades. "Like many societies, we went too far in our welfare-state ambitions," says Borg