Congressman Mike Rogers on Nationalized Health Care

In two video clips, Congressman Mike Rogers, himself a cancer survivor, expresses outrage at plans to nationalize health care.

In the first clip (7-17-09), Congressman Rogers (R-MI), complains of big-brother power grabs in proposed legislation and the harm nationalization will ultimately do to the health care Americans can obtain.

In the second clip (7-22-09), Congressman Rogers spoke to Fox News about provisions in the President’s health care plan that will ration health care. He also provides recent examples from Canada to show that a national health care program is not the way to go.

Indeed, the advocates of greater government control over health care have promoted many myths to win acceptance for their proposed power grab. These include the myth that America’s health care problems are due to failures of the free market, rather than of government involvement, the myth that nationalized systems entail lower administrative costs, the myth that nations with government-controlled health care systems enjoy better health care, and the myth that the poor obtain greater equality of health care under nationalized systems.

The drive for government control of health care dates back the better part of a century in this country. Perhaps the most serious illusion confronting the American public today is that the forces behind this power grab are really interested in improving health care. In reality, the driving forces view the socialization of medicine as just a useful steppingstone to establishing big-brother socialism. More than two centuries ago, American patriots signed the Declaration of Independence to avoid such a fate.

For a broader perspective on the drive for nationalized health care, a socialist revolution euphemistically promoted as “reform,” please see our “Say NO to Socialized Medicine” campaign page.