Walter Williams is no fan of government run health care. He asks some very important questions that people need to think about and answer before they vote for any Democrat:
Do we want the government employees who run the troubled Walter Reed Army Medical Center to be in charge of our entire health care system? Or, would you like the people who deliver our mail to also deliver health care services? How would you like the people who run the motor vehicles department, the government education system, foreign intelligence and other government agencies to also run our health care system?
Can you tell me one thing the government has run that has not been buried in bureaucracy? What has the government taken over that they have stream lined and improved? They lost 190,ooo fully automatic machine guns in the middle of a war zone, for cryin’ out loud! Where will your medical record or X-rays end up?
There’s absolutely no mystery why our greatest complaints are in the arena of government-delivered services and the fewest in market-delivered services. In the market, there are the ruthless forces of profit, loss and bankruptcy that make producers accountable to us. In the arena of government-delivered services, there’s no such accountability. For example, government schools can go for decades delivering low-quality services, and what’s the result? The people who manage it earn higher pay. It’s nearly impossible to fire the incompetents. And, taxpayers, who support the service, are given higher tax bills.
Our health care system is hampered by government intervention, and the solution is not more government intervention but less.
You can take that last sentence, remove “health care system” and replace it with most anything and it would be correct.
Our “education system” is hampered by government intervention, and the solution is not more government intervention but less.
Our “ability to produce cheaper energy in America” is hampered by government intervention, and the solution is not more government intervention but less.
Our “income” is hampered by government intervention, and the solution is not more government intervention but less.
See how it works. Try it tonight around the dinner table. It’s good for hours of fun with the family.
