American Arrogance and Universal Health Care

   
     
    
    A thought occurred to me this morning as I lay in bed, slowly waking up.  President Obama and his liberal friends regularly express the idea that America is no better than any other country.  He himself apologizes all over the world for our arrogance.  He and his cronies appear to be actively working toward making us into a European socialist country so we can be just like them, no better and no worse. These progressive Americans seem to believe that if we equalize ourselves with other nations, we will no longer be hated and this will lead to less strife for America and other places, too.


     One of the changes the president, the liberals and the progressives have insisted on is universal health care, like is had in European nations and Canada.  The funny thing is, though, that Canada and Great Britain have both started moving toward privatizing at least some of their health care because the universal system is not working as was hoped or anticipated.  


     Why then is America moving toward universal health care if it has been proved to be at least a partial failure.  I'll tell you one reason why...because the president, the liberals and the progressives are arrogant, just as arrogant as all the 'average Americans' they keep wagging their fingers at.  No matter how much President Obama and his pals want to protest it, they believe that we (the United States) can do it right and do it better, because we are Americans, and Americans are capable of doing everything better.  That is the negative stereotypical view that many other countries have of Americans, that we all think we can do everything better than everyone else.


    If President Obama and forward-thinking friends actually wanted to equalize our country to be like other modern countries, they would pay attention to what has worked, and what hasn't, in those countries and follow suit instead of trying to reinvent the wheel here.  Learning from other industrialized nations' experiences would make us far less 'American' and could be seen as far more 'equal' than what is going on now.  Whether they like it or not, the progressives' insistence that 'we can do universal health care better' is that same arrogant American mindset President Obama keeps apologizing for.