| A house call President Obama wishes he could cancel: Neurosurgeon Criticizes Obamacare at National Prayer Breakfast Washington, D.C. — Renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson is a self-described foe of political correctness and he proved it on Thursday: During the National Prayer Breakfast, he criticized Obamacare with Barack Obama sitting just two seats away from him. Dr. Carson is director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. In a wide-ranging speech that was inspirational and patriotic, Carson — who came from a poverty stricken background — touched on the need to accept personal responsibility, education, faith, runaway Washington’s spending, reforming the tax code without engaging in class warfare, and other issues. You’ll note what appears to be a lot of negative body language coming from President Obama during Carson’s address. Without referring to the law specifically, Dr. Carson’s comments about making the heathcare delivery system more efficient as opposed to more bureaucratic under Obamacare start at about the 21-minue mark: “Here’s my solution: When a person is born, give him a birth certificate, an electronic medical record, and a health savings account to which money can be contributed — pretax — from the time you’re born ’til the time you die. When you die, you can pass it on to your family members, so that when you’re 85 years old and you got six diseases, you’re not trying to spend up everything. You’re happy to pass it on and there’s nobody talking about death panels. Read more DINESH'S READING LIST | | Dinesh is recommending some books on his website, here are some books on his shelf: Milton, Paradise Lost. I’d read this in concert with Stanley Fish’s How Milton Works, a masterful theological interpretation by a secular Milton scholar. Paul Davies, The Mind of God. A leading physicist and agnostic spells out the stunning implications of the Anthropic Principle—the idea that the universe is “fine-tuned” for life. This book is an atheist nightmare. Dinesh D’Souza, What’s So Great about Christianity. The first apologetics book I wrote, answers a range of questions related to science, atheism, and the good Christianity has brought to the world. | | | |
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