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Government health care plantation looms

45caliber Wrote: Jul 20, 2009 5:55 PM

the government to police their programs now? After all, they are too busy telling the doctors what they can and can't do to treat someone. Everyone knows that politicians and government clerks know more about medicine than doctors who spent 10 years studying know. They got their information from watching television shows.

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Government health care plantation looms

What is now being billed as health care reform is but the latest chapter in a process I described in an earlier column as "Back on Uncle Sam's Plantation."

Rather than moving dysfunctional America off the welfare state, as we did with welfare reform in 1996, we are now moving the free, functioning, and once prosperous part of our nation onto the welfare state.

Bills out of committees in both the House and the Senate contain all the elements of President Obama's dream to get as many Americans onto the government health care plantation as possible.