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According to Larry Kudlow, the liberal entitlement-state dream is crumbling.
Writing for
National Review Online, Kudlow asks these pertinent questions: "Why is it that Americans don't have the freedom to choose their own health insurance? I just don't get it. Why must the liberal nanny state make decisions for us? We can make them ourselves, thank you very much. It's like choosing a car, buying a home, or investing in a stock. We can handle it.
"So why must the government tell me and everyone else what we can and cannot buy?"
He aptly states, as noted by Charles Krauthammer and
The Wall Street Journal's Dan Henninger, that Obamacare has become the greatest expansion to date of the liberal entitlement-state dream. But that is a dream that he, like many people, does not want. As a healthy 60-something-year-old, he also says, "I don't want lactation and maternity services, abortion services, speech therapy, mammograms, fertility treatments, or Viagra. I don't want it. So why should I have to tear up my existing health-care plan, and then buy a plan with far more expensive premiums and deductibilities and with services I don't need or want?
"Why? Because Team Obama says I have to. And that's not much of a reason. It's not freedom."
Obama has for years told the American people that they would be able to keep their health insurance plans if they so choose, but, as recently reported in the media, the Obama administration has known for three years that the "Affordable" Care Act's excessive, inflexible regulations would cause as many as 15 million individuals to lose their coverage.
After that news came out into the open, Obama tried placing the blame on insurance companies, rather than the stiff regulations in his signature legislation. However, it was too late, as the American people, and even facets of the mainstream media, have lost trust in the president and turned against Obamacare.
Kudlow points out the ridiculousness of Obama's statements "that so many of these existing plans are substandard 'bad apples,'" and that insurance at the state level is one of the most regulated areas of the economy. He then goes on to note the complete lack of fairness in Obamacare's attempt to redistribute wealth from the young and healthy to the elderly and diseased.
Kudlow concludes his article thusly: "Between the president's broken promises, the millions of policy cancellations, the continued website breakdowns, and the unaffordable, unfair con game between the healthy young and the sicker old, this Obamacare monster is well on its way to collapsing of its own weight. But here's the bigger point: All this is the inevitable result of massive central-planning exercises to control the economy. That's not freedom.
"No amount of rescue legislation is going to change this. It's the elections of 2014 and 2016 that will allow the American people to reject this Soviet-style planning. But I'll reference my conservative colleagues in the media once again: Obamacare represents the greatest-ever expansion of the liberal entitlement-state dream. And you know what? That dream is crumbling and dissolving before our very eyes.
"And that is freedom."
You can read Larry Kudlow's full article
here. More of his articles for
National Review are also available to read
here.
