The West Melbourne Post

Many claim we need health insurance reform because “there are 50 Million uninsured people” in our country.  If the 50 Million number is true, then based upon population of 304,059,724 (July 2008), then we are talking about drastically changing how health care is provided based on a “problem” for only 16% of the population.

The uninsured still get health care (subsidized by the rest of us), so it is not like 16% of the population is dying for lack of health insurance.

Do we really want to trade the best health care system in the world (people from other countries wouldn’t come here for care if we didn’t have the best) for one where the Government would decide who gets what treatment and how long they have to wait for it?

Dr. James Schlesinger wrote an excellent article the The Wall Street Journal that contends that “Nuclear weapons are used every day“.  If you think we don’t need the nuclear weapons we have now, you really need to follow the above link and read the article.

In his call for “Health Insurance Reform” tonight, President Obama cited the theoretical case of a young person who thinks he is invincible and therefore doesn’t get health insurance, but “gets hit by a bus and then we all have to pay for his health care!”

As a lawyer and the spouse of an ex-hospital administrator, he should know that his argument is deceptive, because the bus company’s insurance would pay for the damages caused by the bus.