It is well known that for the most part today’s left has wholly embraced socialist economic policies; as such Democratic politicians have fallen all over themselves to trumpet their versions of universal health care. As anyone who has ever visited a VA hospital or county run hospital or health clinic can attest, the prospect of government run health care all but assures a decline in the quality of healthcare in the United States. Nonetheless, Universal Healthcare in America is a foregone conclusion. The country has been gradually drifting toward greater government centralization and socialism since the time of the progressive era and as this country has drifted in that direction, each successive generation has freely given up more and more personal liberties and chosen to reject personal responsibility.

The culmination of our rush to create a socialist utopia in the spirit of Hugo Chavez, while abandoning personal responsibility has resulted in two similar proposals for universal healthcare by the highly overrated Barack Obama and the equally underwhelming John Edwards. Both Democratic presidential hopefuls have pledged that once universal socialized medicine is instituted in this country, the government will pay for abortions in addition to other traditional medical procedures.

So now government will support abortion on demand for men and women who have totally rejected the concept of personal responsibility. Pardon me for asking but since when is abortion a necessary medical procedure (at least in most circumstances)? So what’s next universal health coverage for plastic surgery, hair replacement, lasek, etc…

Alas the march toward Marxist ideology knows no bounds….
Link to Chicago Tribune article