Walter Reed A Metaphor For Government Health Care
By Doug Patton
March 12, 2007
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The grand experiments with communism around the world have been miserable failures, mainly because they deny human nature in theory and reduce entire societies to an equal level of misery in practice. Similarly, attempts at providing health care for all Americans by turning it into a gargantuan government bureaucracy also will fail.
Former Sen. Bob Dole, himself a wounded World War II veteran, and Donna Shalala, Bill Clinton's Health and Human Services Secretary, have been appointed to head up yet another commission to study the problems inherent in a system that could produce such a scandal as Walter Reed. We can all expect about as much from that as from any other recent government commissions.
Walter Reed is a metaphor for the nightmare that our nation's health care system will become if our federal government is trusted to control and manage it: a microcosm of what 300 million Americans will face if liberal Democrats' utopian ideas are allowed to come to fruition.
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Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy advisor. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online, TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
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