Perkins on Point: June 12, 2009

This week President Obama held a town hall meeting in Green Bay in an effort to build support for his government health program. There are some folks who say, "socialized medicine." You hear that all the time, "socialized medicine." Well, socialized medicine would mean that the government would basically run all of health care. They would hire the doctors, they would run the hospitals. They would just run the whole thing. Great Britain has a system of socialized medicine. Nobody is talking about doing that, all right? Mr. President, no one is saying government is going to run ALL of health care, just like no one is saying government is going to run all of the banking industry or all of GM. But whether it is setting the pay for executives who took government bailout money or determining who will run General Motors it is abundantly clear that with government money come government strings. What will those strings look like on a government funded or government mandated health care program? Will Americans be free to make their own choices about healthcare? Will the government determine what is covered and what is not? Through your push for reproductive health care will you force American taxpayers for the first time in over three decades to directly fund abortion? Will healthcare workers have true conscience protections or will they have to choose between serving people through healthcare or serving their Creator by respecting human life? For more visit FRC.org.