Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol says that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s inability to do away with her country’s National Health Service shows just how important it is to repeal Obamacare.
“What’s the one thing even she really couldn’t challenge and has stayed in place and is really debilitating in Great Britain? The National Health Service,” Kristol said on Monday’s broadcast of Hugh Hewitt’s morning show. “What does that tell us about the need to dismantle and repeal Obamacare? I really think that is fundamental.”
According to Kristol, it’s essential that Republicans delay the implementation of Obamacare until the 2016 elections, after which it must be repealed.
“I can see a path forward in a Reaganite-Thatcher direction if Republicans can delay and obstruct, frankly, and also get rid of parts of Obamacare,” Kristol said. “And then get rid of it after 2016. I think if that stays in place, we get to a bit of a situation that Mrs. Thatcher found herself in — you do a lot of good things, but there’s this massive sort of lump of the welfare state and the nanny state and the incredibly intrusive government sitting right there that’s very hard to work around.”