You might wonder who made the following pledge to ruin our great and glorious free market health care system. I mean, come on. Only a Demorat commie subversive would propose “universal health care coverage,” right?
“I shall propose a sweeping new program that will assure comprehensive health-insurance protection to millions of Americans who cannot now obtain it or afford it, with vastly improved protection against catastrophic illnesses …”
That’s Hillary talking, right, or Edwards? Maybe Obama? Well, actually, the person who proposed this evil socialistic plot to destroy all that is right and good about the bestest health care system in the world was none other than — Richard Milhaus Nixon:
“It was an extremely extensive plan, as I remember, that would have given universal coverage” for health care, recalled Rudolph Penner, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office and an economic official in the Ford administration.
Nixon introduced his Comprehensive Health Insurance Act on Feb. 6, 1974, days after he used what would be his final State of the Union address to call for universal access to health insurance. […]
Nixon said his plan would build on existing employer-sponsored insurance plans and would provide government subsidies to the self-employed and small businesses to ensure universal access to health insurance. He said it would not create a new federal bureaucracy.
Ah, those Big Government types, always out to ruin Capitalism with their grand schemes to benefit the lives of the little people. Socialists all. I mean, it’s not like our health system is all that bad, is it? Look at Bill Frist and his family. They’re doing just fine under our current lazzez faire approach to health care. And anyone invested in pharmaceutical companies has to be pretty happy about the way we deliver health care to Americans. And health insurance companies and their executives? They haven’t done too badly either.
So why do we need universal health care, Mr. Nixon? What were you, some kind of Clintonista before Clinton became Clinton? Or were you a secret Democrat mole in the Republican Party? Does make one wonder how this guy could get away with calling himself a Republican, now doesn’t it?
