House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Denver General Hospital on Wednesday and used the opportunity to once again obfuscate the healthcare issue in her endless push for nationalization of the industry.
After stepping over the bodies of those who had died for lack of treatment, she said, “The most industrialized country in the world should not be refusing healthcare to anyone.” The Speaker speaks nonsense.
Nobody is being denied healthcare, as evidenced by the huge number of Medicaid patients, including illegal immigrants, overwhelming Denver General and other hospitals.
She proceeded to commend DG for providing “high quality, low cost healthcare for all patients.” Low cost for whom? Sure, it’s low cost for many of the patients, but not for taxpayers. And not for people who pay for their own health insurance.
Finally, Pelosi rolled out the familiar and baseless assertion that healthcare is a right. Really? I’d like her to tell us where that right comes from. Our rights are spelled out in the Constitution and healthcare is not one of them. Shelter is a more fundamental need than healthcare, but we don’t have a right to a free house.
Dem. Rep. Dianne DeGette, who accompanied Pelosi, threw in the old canard about the 47 million uninsured. That figure includes 12 million illegal immigrants. It also includes millions of young, healthy people who make a rational choice to forgo health insurance, preferring to spend the money on other things. And millions more of the uninsured are people who are between jobs. This year’s uninsured are not all the same people as next year’s uninsured.
Pelosi, DeGette and others who really want total government healthcare, deliberately blur the distinction between healthcare and health insurance.
Not having health insurance is not the same as not having access to healthcare. Not everyone has health insurance, but, through Medicaid, even the poorest have access to healthcare.
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