I heard Rush Limbaugh on the radio the other day. Entertaining guy. Not my idea of conservatism but entertaining nonetheless.
He was hollering about the, guess what, health care plan. He set the stage in a way that characterized universal health as an idea only pursued by the left. In the process, he pitted conservatives against liberals. Naturally, liberals are the enemy.
He further claimed liberals had been trying to ram universal health for over 60 years and have been thwarted every time.
Is this accurate?
Not really. Picked this up on Cleveland.com.
According to the article, the idea of offering some form of social assistance (national health care) to all citizens goes as far back as Theodore Roosevelt - the Republican President with his face on Mount Rushmore. What more, other Republicans have tinkered with it in different ways too. Richard Nixon proposed universal health insurance in 1974 just before Watergate hit. And George W. Bush added prescription drug coverage to Medicare in 2003 - funny how no one talks about any of the good things Bush did.
So Limbaugh's set up is misleading.
Limbaugh's set up is misleading? He's not the only one. Both sides in this debate at some point have been misleading, vague or confused.
ReplyDeleteLabels are sometime strange, for instance, in the USA some 60 or 70 years ago the Republicans were liberals and the Democrats were conservatives in the civil rights movement, back then they lost the South on that. How things change.
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ReplyDeleteThe first comment, attributed to Alexis, is mine.
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