What happens when voters meet members of Congress these days?
BO is not persuading Dems: Obama May Have to Wait for Health Care Passage
Deroy Murdock is a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University.
"Rather than endorse such big-government overkill, pro-freedom members of Congress should promote a simple concept: Let every American own and control an individual health-insurance policy that can be transported among jobs, self-employment, graduate school, and life’s other twists and turns."
That's right!
Try ownership, or personal responsibility.
It's our responsibility to purchase and own a health insurance policy.
It's "my job" to provide health insurance for my family. It's "my job" to own life insurance so that my family is protected against life's surprises. In other words, it's my responsibility!
What happens to those who lose their jobs or confront other difficulties?
Provide these people with some cash payments or temporary coverage until thy can find a job. Isn't that what the safety net is all about?
What about "those millions uninsured"?
Let Mr. Murdock explain that one:
"From those 45.7 million uninsured, subtract 17.5 million who earn more than $50,000 annually.
Though they can afford coverage, they evidently have other priorities.
Of the remaining 28.2 million uninsured, some 14 million are eligible for, yet have not enrolled in, the Medicaid and S-CHIP programs.
Meanwhile, as many as 10 million uninsured may be illegal aliens.
All told, Pipes estimates that only about 8 million Americans are uninsured due to chronic illness or working-poor status.
The latter have incomes too high for assistance and too low for insurance.
Why not help these 8 million rather than overturn medicine for all 300 million of us?"
Again, the answer is to expect people to take care of themselves.
Ownership not dependence is the American way!
P.S. O'Reilly gets it, which is probably why he has the largest cable news audience in the country:
