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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Why the fear to provide health insurance to children
By VictorM: I'm not going to use an actual number because any number can be disputed, but there is no doubt that America has millions of children without health coverage. Could the richest nation on Earth do something about it? Of course. Why we don't do it is open to interpretation, but Paul Krugman's take makes sense to me:The only thing I would add is that this isn't a Bush only issue. The view that Krugman expresses applies equally to the Republican party.[W]hy should Mr. Bush fear that insuring uninsured children would lead to a further “federalization” of health care, even though nothing like that is actually in either the Senate plan or the House plan? It’s not because he thinks the plans wouldn’t work. It’s because he’s afraid that they would. That is, he fears that voters, having seen how the government can help children, would ask why it can’t do the same for adults.
And there you have the core of Mr. Bush’s philosophy. He wants the public to believe that government is always the problem, never the solution. But it’s hard to convince people that government is always bad when they see it doing good things. So his philosophy says that the government must be prevented from solving problems, even if it can. In fact, the more good a proposed government program would do, the more fiercely it must be opposed.
EXACTLY.
My conspiratorial little tinfoil hatted mind always wonders whether or not Bush Admins incompetence in matters of governmental assistance was on purpose or not.
: 10:03 AM
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