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October 26, 2009
WSJ: Why Government Health Care Keeps Falling in the Polls
Topics: Political News and commentariesWhile opposition to ObamaCare has risen all year, the White House and liberal Democrats continue to blame Fox News and "demogogues in the media" for "stirring up falsehoods" against Obamacare. However, as Arthur Brooks suggests at WSJ, Americans deserve more credit than that; Obamacare has run head-on against American's core values and Americans are pushing back:
They haven't been brainwashed, and they aren't upset merely over the budget-busting details. Rather, public resistance stems from the sense that the proposed reforms do violence to three core values of America's free enterprise culture: individual choice, personal accountability, and rewards for ambition. (More)Brooks sees the health-care debate as being part of a moral struggle currently being played out over the free enterprise system, one that will be replayed in every major policy debate in the coming months, from financial regulatory reform to a cap-and-trade system for limiting carbon emissions. As he aptly points out, the choices will ultimately always come down to competing visions of America's future. Will we strengthen freedom, individual opportunity and enterprise, or will we expand the role of the state and its power over "every aspect of our lives" (under Obama's vision of replacing America's core values with Marxist statism)?
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