Kentucky's entire GOP delegation in the U.S. House voted yesterday against expanding government health insurance to more middle-class families.
Good. Much of what ails America can't be fixed without entitlement reform. And that means fewer entitlements for people who are better off without them.
Immigration wouldn't be a problem if everyone were coming here to be productive. Public and private pensions wouldn't be melting down absent the short-sighted greed of union negotiators. Medicare and Social Security are on a collision course with reality. Hillary and her storm troopers march determinedly toward making it worse as soon as possible.
Predictably, Democrats think Hal Rogers, Ed Whitfield, Geoff Davis, and Ron Lewis made a political mistake on this vote. They deserve our thanks and our support for this vote. The only thing that would make it better would be to let the program die off completely. But I suspect we will have to be happy for now with slowing its rapid expansion.
When the left's prediction of death of middle-class kids in the streets fails to materialize, we will have more hard evidence for avoiding socialized medicine once and for all.
That's what liberal critics are afraid of.
1:02 Update: Nicholasville Conservative recommends an article from John Stossel on this subject. It's a good one.
