Health care reform and a free society

I’m not sure I agree with the entire piece, but there is something undeniable in Jeffrey Kuhner’s piece Friday in the Washington Times:

[Obama's] proposal seeks to create a centrally planned medical economy that will erect a gigantic government bureaucracy based on massive taxes, subsidies and regulations. Mr. Obama is willing to sacrifice his partys political fortunes in November – and even his own re-election in 2012 – because he understands one fundamental fact: Nationalized health care is the heart of cradle-to-grave statism. No country that has ever embraced socialized medicine – Canada, Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy – has ever been able to regain economic freedom.

Basically, his point here is that here’s a lot more than just health care for uninsured at stake here… our freedoms, our opportunities, our free market system is at stake.

Now, the incredible Irony here is that back in 2003, when Obama was a state senator and the issue of abortion came up… Obama’s view was that:

I voted uh, uh, no, on uh,the late term abortion ban not because I don’t recognize that these are not painful issues but because I trust women to make these decisions.  To the degree to which we presume as governments to make decisions in the most intimate, uh, basic, uh, decisions of uh, a individual’s life I think we are making a mistake.

So when it comes to abortion… Government has no role to play AT ALL in the choice of women in their medical decisions.  But when it comes to every other medical decision we face… Obama wants to make sure his breaurocracy, his funding, his rules, his limitations all apply to all of our uh basic, uh, intimate, personal decisions… which is all this health care bill ever was… a piece of legislation designed to force most Americans into giving up control over their health to a health-care system run by Obama.

And you wonder why people are angry.

via KUHNER: The United Socialist States of America – Washington Times.