Health Care revisited

Well, by the title you probably think I've softened my tone a bit on health care.

Not a bit.

But I would like to add a thing or two.

First, and the thing that got me off on this in the first place is the Hillary Clinton add that goes something like this:

"If you agree that it's America's moral obligation to provide health care for all, then you need to vote for Hillary..."

I'm afraid I have fundamental exceptions to take with several of the concepts in that statement.

First of all, who does Hillary Clinton think she is preaching morality to me or anyone else for that matter? Wasn't she the progenitor of the whole Whitewater fiasco? Didn't she sit idly by while Bill paraded his scam of a marriage in front of the whole world, lying about it all the while until a certain blue dress glowed brightly (in spots) under the black light? Isn't she in favor of the greatest moral outrage of our time, the murder of the helpless unborn? That's what I thought! Next, when does the morality of a question coincide with the right to govern the answer? Aren't these the same people who scream "foul!" every time someone from the Republican party tries to govern morality by outlawing even the most heinous forms of abortion? Aren't these the same folks who call on the first amendment every time some smut king is prosecuted for publishing pornographic materials? Look, Dems - you can't have it both ways! Either you're in favor of governing morality or you're not! You can't govern one issue under "moral grounds" and refuse to govern another under those same grounds! Finally, I have issue with further government instrusion into an affair of private enterprise (health care), as I've already stated. IMHO, the health care system that we have is out of whack simply because the government has made it so. The LAST thing we need is additional government intrusion into what would be perfectly fine if they'd get their fingers out of the pie and let market forces determine the price for services rendered. Lord knows, there's no shortage of hospitals and certainly none of doctors. Nurses...that's another story! Those poor folks have got the worst job short of garbage collector on the planet and they're not compensated anywhere near enough for the work that they do (IMHO)!

Hillary, take your morality to someone who's not old enough to remember the 90's; I'm not buying it, at least not from you! - Dan