The Houston Chronicle, of all places, had a great article by a woman named FROMA HARROP on why the radical right-wing fears universal health insurance. It's not because of the cost, its because it might be successful. This is from the article:
So let's discuss what the panic is really about. Republicans know that once government health coverage seeps up into the middle class, there's no stopping it.
Note how Bush does this big "compassionate conservative" thing about very much wanting SCHIP for poor people. Programs for the poor are fine, because you can always cut the living daylights out of them. Politicians who mess with middle class benefits find their heads in the return mail.
The happiest campers in American health care today are the people in Medicare, a government-run program that sets prices. Middle-class families who taste similar fruits will not say: "Please, oh, please. Send my health coverage back into the exciting free market." And their neighbors will ask, "Where can I get some?"
Right-wingers know that their philosophy of having the so-called "free market" handle all of society's problems won't sell once there is universal health insurance. That's why wing-nuts like Michelle Malkin go after 12 year old boys and three year girls and their families. Nothing can be allowed to get in the way of their efforts to destroy government programs.
UPDATE: This is who Froma Harrop is: Harrop is a syndicated columnist based in Providence, R.I. She can be e-mailed at fharrop@projo.com.
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