Few things are more contemptible then when a elite politicians seeks to regulate the lives of American while according himself freedom. Teddy Kennedy was a vocal proponent of racial busing in the 1970s, but he put his own in private school.

Democrats want to kill the very successful and parent-loved D.C. vouched program while these same politicians would never put their children into D.C.’s failing public schools. Obama supports ending the program while his own two daughters go to one of the most expensive private academies in the nation [two of their classmates are actually vouched students].

And there is health care. The Democrats are touting a government option scheme that they say would be so great for Americans. Really, if so then why would they not sign up for it?

On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page amendment courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn that would require all Members and their staffs to enroll in any new government-run health plan. Yet all Democrats — with the exceptions of acting chairman Chris Dodd, Barbara Mikulski and Ted Kennedy via proxy — voted nay.

In other words, Sherrod Brown and Sheldon Whitehouse won’t themselves join a plan that “will offer benefits that are as good as those available through private insurance plans — or better,” as the Ohio and Rhode Island liberals put it in a recent op-ed. And even a self-described socialist like Vermont’s Bernie Sanders, who supports a government-only system, wouldn’t sign himself up.

That is because Democrats are only concerned with controlling the lives of others. They are ideological when it comes to everyone else but self-interested when their own lives are at stake. They know what a government scheme will look like as I recently outlined:

Government-run health care is always debt-inducing, inefficient and leads to a decline in health care service. Today, at the invaluable Cato Institution I heard a Canadian speak from personal experience on what the Canadian socialized health care system is all about. She spoke about how Canada is under a rationing system with over 700,000 Canadians - out of a population of 33 million - are currently on a list waiting surgery because of a lack of skilled physicians. 17% [something like that, I forget the exact figure] of the Canadian public are awaiting a simply meeting with a primary care doctor. This is what government-managed health care does.

She spoke out the case of a Canadian man from Ontario who had head injuries and went to his doctor requesting an MRI scan. The doctor told him he would need to wait 4 MONTHS [!!!] for a simply scan that in an American hospital would be done on demand. The reason is that Canadian ranks in the bottom of OECD nations in the quantity of MRI scans. The man drove into Buffalo, New York and got his MRI scan and it turned out he had a brain tumor. He then went back with the scans to his Canadian doctor whom told him that there was a 4 MONTH [!!!] wait for neurosurgery. He did not wait and got the operation in New York. Imagine if he had to wait 8 months? He credits the [partly; I’ll get to this later] free market U.S. health industry for saving his life.

He was lucky, the speaker’s own mother died of colon cancer awaiting treatment in a Canada that has debased human life through its rationing system. This is what the state does when it controls our health. We are left to the whim of a impersonal bureaucrat.

She spoke about a woman in Alberta, a major center in Canada, who had to fly to a relatively small-town in Montana to deliver quintuples because while her larger city did not have a specialist a small Montana town did. Canadians are lucky, as the speaker explained, they have an exitvalue: the United States. Europeans are not so lucky.

But Obama may end decent health care for both Americans and Canadians with one swipe with his effort to destroy private health insurance. His administration claims that they want only to offer a public-option and that those who still want to keep their private insurance will be able to do so. Do not be fooled. A government scheme - so large and outside the bounds of taxes and competition that private insurers are restrained by - would in time force out all private competition and force all Americans under the government’s control. Further, his plan will mandate health care [both in getting a plan and what type of plan] so as to restrict freedom, choice and increase cost.

These pols make me sick!!!