Thomas Sowell, intellectual giant and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, recently wrote a glowing review of Sally C. Pipes’ new book "The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care."
Sowell offers this profound insight about the state of the current healthcare discussion in the country:
It is one of the painful signs of our times that millions of people are so easily swayed by rhetoric that they show virtually no interest at all in finding out the hard facts. Any number of other countries already have government-controlled medical professions. Yet few Americans show any interest in what actually happens to medical care in those countries.
Instead, we are being lured into a one-way process-- much like entering a Venus fly trap-- by the oldest of all confidence rackets, the promise of something for nothing.
Sowell continues:
The lure of something for nothing may be seductive when you are in good health. But it can become a bitter irony when you are waiting for months for surgery to relieve your pain or when your life hangs in the balance while some bureaucrat decides whether you can get the best medication or something older and cheaper.
A bitter irony indeed. Remember those words: The promise of something for nothing. These words define the 'universal healthcare' movement.
The lofty promises from "Universal Healthcare" advocates undoubtedly have great appeal to many Americans. That is why in the coming months it is vital that those of us who value a patient-centered, free-market healthcare system step up efforts to effectively counter the false promises being peddled by advocates of government-run healthcare.
