I had to add this blog post since Facebook doesn’t allow comments this long:

Turning now to the rest of the agenda for XXXX, the time is at hand this year to bring comprehensive, high quality health care within the reach of every American. I shall propose a sweeping new program that will assure comprehensive health insurance protection to millions of Americans who cannot now obtain it or afford it, with vastly improved protection against catastrophic illnesses. This will be a plan that maintains the high standards of quality in America’s health care. And it will not require additional taxes.

Now, I recognize that other plans have been put forward that would cost $80 billion or even $100 billion and that would put our whole health care system under the heavy hand of the Federal Government. This is the wrong approach. This has been tried abroad, and it has failed. It is not the way we do things here in America. This kind of plan would threaten the quality of care provided by our whole health care system. The right way is one that builds on the strengths of the present system and one that does not destroy those strengths, one based on partnership, not paternalism. Most important of all, let us keep this as the guiding principle of our health programs. Government has a great role to play, but we must always make sure that our doctors will be working for their patients and not for the Federal Government.

Now that you have read the above paragraphs, guess who wrote them and when.  If it sounds like Obama, you are dead wrong.  It was written by President Nixon, in 1974, for his State of the Union address.  35 years later, we still don’t have comprehensive health care in this nation.  If you read about Obama’s and Nixon’s plans, they are very similar, and still just as needed.