Obama’s Desperate Push for Socialized Health Care

March 20, 2010 10:16


‘These people figure that if government controls health care, it will lock socially conservative American workers into supporting their Democratic Party allies indefinitely.’

AIM Column  |  By Trevor Loudon

I have written this post to explain why President Obama is so desperate to pass health care legislation, seemingly regardless of the cost to the Democratic Party.

The reality is that President Obama owes his success and his hold on power more to three Marxist groups than he does to the Democrats.

The three organizations, Communist Party USA, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and Democratic Socialists of America, all worked with Barack Obama for years and helped get him elected.

Now they want payback.

All three organizations have campaigned hard for “socialized” or “Single Payer” health care.

They want Obama to pass a bill, any bill, so that they can then ratchet up the pressure until the government has complete control of the health sector.

Why? Because these people figure that if government controls health care, it will lock socially conservative American workers into supporting their Democratic Party allies indefinitely.

Britain after World War II is their model. While Winston Churchill was the hero of the hour, in 1946 he was dumped in a landslide in favor of Labour Party leader Clement Attlee, on the promise of a massively increased welfare state and a socialized National Health Service.

Leading Communist Party USA theoretician Norman Markowitz put it this way in a November 2008 article in Political Affairs, entitled Obama’s Mandate for Change:

A “single payer” national health system–known as “socialized medicine” in the rest of the developed world–should be an essential part of the change that the core constituencies which elected Obama desperately need.

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