The Sunday Funnies
Posted at Heritage Foundation:

The Ask Heritage organization compares the proposed Healthcare bill to European-Style Health Care.

If you have been listening to Canadians and/or Europeans express their opinion on America’s health care reform you will hear an awe of wonder in their voices as to why America would even consider such a change in its present health care system. Many have shared the problems associated with government run health care, i.e., long waits for appointments to see a doctor, and health care treatment once you’ve received a diagnosis. Patients are left waiting for long periods of time to hear back on their requests for coverage…waiting for their government to decide who and when will receive needed care. For many patients it comes too late. For others, patients may have no choice but to seek medical care in the United States.

If the Canadians and Europeans see their health care as dismal failures…why would the American government want such a program for it’s citizens? Is this just another government-run agency? Government control over it’s citizens. Or is there a more sinister plot unfolding?

You really won’t have a choice…

“Among other things, the bill establishes a new government-run health care plan and new federal insurance rules and regulations that will ultimately change the coverage you have today – whether you like it or not.” (Read the rest of the story, click on the above link.) Ask Heritage.

Legislation currently is before Congress that would reinstate a federal communications policy known as the “fairness doctrine.” The legislation, entitled the “Fairness in Broadcasting Act of 1993,” is sponsored in the Senate (S. 333) by Ernest Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat, and in the House (H.R. 1985) by Bill Hefner, the North Carolina Democrat. It would codify a 1949 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulation that once required broadcasters to “afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views of public importance.” The fairness doctrine was overturned by the FCC in 1987.