Health Care

The problems/scandals that are surfacing in our veterans health care system do nothing but herald the kinds of problems that will beset a national health care system when Obama Care morphs to a national, single-payer system.

I have always been convinced that the original intent of the Obama effort was to include a government option that would eventually crowd out everything else and become a national, single-payer system.  When the government option was taken out of the bill, it thwarted that end objective for a time.  I think that the thinking now is this:  When enough problems develop with the Affordable Health Care--that in itself is laughable--system, it can and will be replaced by a national system.

All for the general good, of course:  Old guys like me can be allowed to die and get out of the way.

Hungary--and the Ukraine!

I just heard on Fox News that the Ukraine was pleading for help from the West.  I got sick at my stomach because it reminded me of the l950's when Hungarians, as Russian troops moved through that country slaughtering Hungarian freedom fighters, made a desperate query, "Is help coming from the West?"  No help came from the West then and no help will come from the West for the Ukraine now.  I'm sick.... 

History tends to repeat itself when you live past 70!