Pretty much the same motivation as social security. Create a program that is vital to survival for some people and then rip them off. Social security has always been a cash cow for the Washington politicians. It never mattered that someday it will be broke. Much sooner than they would like. The program will go upside down in 2018. Forget about the IOU’s that will keep social security solvent until 2043. The politicians have no plan or intent on honoring those IOU’s. So all that money will go down the toilet and seniors in the future will have to fend for themselves.

And so it is with socialized medicine. Currently health care is 18% of the GDP. In Canada its 8% but with a much healthier and homogeneous population. Not too many crack babies in Canada. So the idea is to reduce the percent of health care as a percent of the GDP to say 16%, 14% whatever. Then you brag that you “saved” 4% of the GDP in health care expenses for the nation. But while your doing that you ration, cut real wages, destroy private initiatives and so forth till you get the real cost down to 8% of the GDP like Canada has done. The spread between what people will be paying for the rationed crap and what the true cost is will be a HUGE cash cow for the government. 14% charged in taxes minus 8% real cost means a 6% profit for the government or a cool $859,800 million profit! Is it any wonder the politicians are so gun ho on nationalizing our health care?

Of course the politicians will have about 10% of the health care industry private so when Ted Kennedy gets sick he can get the best treatment in the world. So much like Animal Farm where the pigs in control told the other animals “Some animals are more equal than other animals.” The chosen rich and politicians like the old soviet politburo members will not be burdened with the crudities of rationed care and waiting list.

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