From Rush:
“There was a time in this country where almost — in fact, it was slightly over 50% of adults smoked cigarettes, over 50% lit up. They puffed, they inhaled, they exhaled smoked cigarettes, let’s not even count the cigar and pipe smokers. Today less than 25% of the population are smoking cigarettes. We’ve gone from 50% to 25%. Smoking has been cut in half, and obviously secondhand smoking has been cut even more. There’s less secondhand smoke out there because there’s less firsthand smoke, right? Now, what were we promised? We were promised better health and what else were we promised? If we could cut smoking and get people to stop smoking, get it banned in public, what were we promised? We were promised lower health care costs. What do we have? After half the people who smoked have quit, we’ve gone from 50% to 25%, promised better health and lower health care costs, what do we have? We have higher health care costs. In fact, we have much higher health care costs.”
Now, substitue smoking for obesity (or anything else). That is the point that myself and others have made on this thread.
Rush said the government has not followed through with its promise of lower health care costs.
This has nothing to do with your previous insinuations that National Health Care is ok because we’re already paying for Medicare and Medicaid.
Are you for National Health Care or not? you don’t have to cut and past someone’s comments to answer that.