Obama Trashes America to Save ObamaCare

 

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Health Care: As support for ObamaCare collapses, Barack and Michelle have been deploying increasingly harsh language to attack the current system. So much so that they're now trashing the very character of the country.

President Obama routinely describes the nation's health care system before ObamaCare as "badly broken," full of "rotten apples" who conned people into buying "inadequate" insurance that got canceled as soon as they tried to use it.

It's a system, he said this week, "that's been broken for too many people for too long." Oh, and he says Republicans opposed ObamaCare because of an "ideological resistance to the idea of dealing with the uninsured."

Obama's wrong, of course. The system wasn't badly broken. If it were, the vast majority wouldn't say they like their care. People from around the world wouldn't come here for high-quality treatment. The U.S. wouldn't be the world's center of medical R&D.

And the public, not just Republicans, wouldn't have adamantly opposed ObamaCare from the very beginning.

But while Obama's gross mischaracterizations are bad enough, First Lady Michelle has gone even further in a desperate attempt to rally support for ObamaCare.

"In the blink of an eye, any of us — any of us — could be faced with a terrible diagnosis," she said at a New York City fundraiser for Senate Democrats. "Any of us could be injured in a horrible accident ... And when that happens, it shouldn't mean falling off a cliff. It shouldn't mean having to go without food, or medicine, or a roof over our heads."

It's an outrageous slur.

The U.S. is hugely generous to those who can't afford to pay for health care.

Hospitals spend more than $40 billion a year doing so. Doctors generously provide billions of dollars worth of free or discounted care to those who need help. There are various philanthropies that raise billions each year for charity care.

And that's to say nothing of the existing government programs. Taxpayers fork over $415 billion a year so Medicaid can provide health care for the poor, and another $500 billion for Medicare. There's the VA for veterans and various state-run programs as well.

So, no, the health care system isn't now and never has been the cold, cruel, heartless disaster that the Obamas make it out to be.

But it will be one day, if ObamaCare is left to stand.