He just couldn’t resist. President Obama couldn’t help but sneak in a little universal health care sales pitch to students before his speech to the rest of the nation’s children yesterday. CNS News reports:
Although the president avoided controversial topics in his speech, he did promote health care reform in a face-to-face discussion at Wakefield High School. Asked by a student how he stays motivated to do his job, Obama replied that his staff gives him 10 letters every day from “ordinary folks.”
“Some of the stories are really depressing,” Obama told the 40 freshman, who were chosen to meet with the president during freshman orientation, according to school officials.
“You hear about people who are sick but don’t have health care, and suddenly they get a bill for $100,000, and there’s no way they can pay for it, and they’re about to lose their house. And you’re just reminded that the country is full of really good people who sometimes are going through a hard time,” Obama said.
“They just need a break. They need a little bit of help. Maybe the way things are set up right now isn’t always fair for people, and that motivates you, because you say, well, I can’t make everything perfect, I can’t prevent somebody from getting sick, but maybe I can make sure that they’ve got insurance so that when they do get sick, they’re going to get some help.”
So now it’s the job of the president to see to it that individuals have health insurance. So much for personal responsibility. He went on the criticize employer sponsored health insurance – another brain child of lefties in America. No mention of tort reform or allowing insurance to be sold across state lines. No mention of health care savings accounts or any other reforms that put control in the hands of individuals rather than the state.
On a related note, Warner Todd Huston blew away the leftist argument that individuals should be able to purchase health insurance after they become ill. He took aim at a NY Times story which blamed the insurance industry for the death of a man who was refused a transplant by Medicaid. The argument was that if the young man was able to purchase insurance after becoming ill, he never would have been on Medicaid in the first place. Get it – the left wants every American to be able to forego health insurance until we need it, at which time it should be readily available to pay for all of our ailments. How long do you think a scheme like that would last?
The fantasies of the left will soon turn into a nightmare for all of us.
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