By Herman Cain:
The rhetoric is confusing but the facts are not. The president and the Democrats are inflating, distorting and ignoring many of the verifiable facts about health care to increase public support for a total government takeover of our health care system.
In other words, they are taking advantage of the public’s health care ignorance.
The biggest fact that’s being distorted is the number of people uninsured. It is not 50 million people as the president claims, nor is it the 46 million people claimed throughout the last presidential campaign.
CEO Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research Institute clearly explains in her latest book, The Top Ten Myths about American Health Care, that the real number is about 8 million people who are chronically uninsured.
If the goal was to really provide health insurance for the truly uninsured, a $2,000 health insurance voucher would cost $16 billion a year. If it were provided for five years, the cost would be $80 billion. So why are the president and Congress trying to find $1.5 trillion to pay for a government health care plan that will most likely end up looking like Medicare’s ugly twin sister.
The answer is that it’s not about providing health insurance coverage for the uninsured. It’s about more government control, and another government bureaucracy that would eventually resemble Medicare, and we know how well it is not working.
