In his latest op-ed on Politix.topics.com, “Is Obamacare Here to Stay?,” ARI fellow Don Watkins asks: What does the history of Social Security tell us about the future of Obamacare?
The government today does not see us as individuals with the right to make choices about our own health care. Instead, over the last hundred years, the government has increasingly forced us to make different choices.
On Wednesday, May 7, I’ll be speaking in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, at “Imagine: The Power to Choose YOUR Healthcare,” an event organized by the Steamboat Institute.
On health care, Republicans and Democrats share the same goal: to create a society in which if you can’t pay for medical services, the government confiscates other people’s money to pay for those services.
Peggy Noonan ably exposes the emptiness of the left’s triumphalism over Obamacare’s announcement of “7 million insured.” However, in the course of her comments, she praises Social Security by comparison.