Obama is Bush part 3

4 Money Problems That Obama Can't Fix

The two countries most often cited by Universal Healthcare advocates -- Canada and the UK -- both finance their government healthcare systems with massive subsidies from exporting oil.

The NHS in the UK has been losing doctors, closing offices, and rationing care for the past 5-10 years -- because spending has gone out of control and revenue from the North Sea oil fields have peaked.

The U.S. is not an oil exporter -- quite the contrary. We don't have loads of government money sitting around waiting to be spent -- we have massive budget deficits, and absolutely overwhelming entitlement deficits.

The problem with healthcare is **NOT** how many people have/don't have insurance. The problem is sky-rocketing costs. When businesses cancel / trim health benefits, they always cite costs that are rising 3-4 times the rate of inflation. Anyone and everyone in the U.S. can **buy** health insurance -- they just can't afford to. Its a cost problem, not an availability problem

There is no credible argument that the U.S. government, an entity known to spend $2 billion on an airplane and $10,000 on coffee makers, is going to control costs. Congress just spent over $36 BILLION (with a "B") to build a visitors center at the US Capital. There are no healthcare companies that spend $36 billion on one building.

Has everyone seen the disastrous care the US government provides for our soldiers?

The U.S. consolidated all its disaster response agencies into the Department of Homeland Security... Ask the folks in New Orleans how well that worked out.

And if the government takes over healthcare -- that means decisions over what procedures are covered / not covered becomes a political issue. Roe V Wade gets overturned by checkbook instead of by law -- remember, the government would control ALL payments to ALL doctors.

Healthcare costs are out of control and need to be addressed. But as the Hippocratic Oath says "First, do no harm". Don't make a bad situation worse by putting spendthrift politicians in charge of our health.