"I look back 20 years ago in the square in Prague... when tens of thousands showed up there and they shook their keys peacefully and they took over their country and they achieved their freedom back again," he said. "If you can keep coming to this city, fill up the congressional offices across the country but jam this city. If you can get on your cell phones, and get on your Blackberries and your email, and ask people to keep coming to this town. Storm this city, fill up Washington D.C., jam this capital so they can't move. And if tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of you show up, we will win. We will defeat this bill and you will have your liberty back."Afterward he told Sam Stein at Huffington Post that the situation in America is very similar to the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
"Oh yeah, it is very, very close," King replied. "It is the nationalization of our liberty and the federal government taking our liberty over. So there are a lot of similarities there."Unbelievable, it truly is. It's really hard to believe there are people this dumb in such high offices in America. Just as a quick history lesson for non-Fox News viewers, the American government is a democratically elected government. It is the most free and fair representative body in the world. In 1989 Czechoslovakia was not a democracy. It was a Soviet satellite controlled entirely by a non-elected one party system. There are absolutely no similarities between America and 1989 Czechoslovakia. Rep. King is grossly distorting history, reality and freedom everywhere.
It's bad enough that a current member of congress is comparing the Obama administration to the Soviet Union and calling for its overthrow, but just as another quick lesson in reality it's worth looking at the "square in Prague" today. The Czech Republic enjoys a single payer health care system very similar to what proponents of HCR want for America.
Healthcare (including dental treatment) is free to all citizens in the Czech Republic. It is provided through compulsory contributions to a state approved insurance fund.There almost couldn't be a better example of what an American "public option" would look like. I say we take Rep. Steven King up on his Revolution! What a crazy bunch of people.
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Every citizen, with the exception of designated vulnerable groups, must make mandatory contributions to an approved Czech health insurance company.
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The Czech healthcare service is decentralised and operates more like a private medical insurance system. They pay their contributions directly to their health insurance company who in turn pay the treatment providers directly, so there is no need for a reimbursement service.
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