October 8, 2008 10:43AM 

# Obama to Deploy Troops to America’s Health-Care Sector 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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From [last night’s presidential debate](http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/presidential.debate.transcript/):

> **Barack Obama:** So one of the things that I have said from the start of this campaign is that we have a moral commitment as well as an economic imperative to do something about the health care crisis that so many families are facing…
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> **Tom Brokaw:** What is the Obama doctrine for use of force that the United States would send when we don’t have national security issues at stake?
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> **Barack Obama:** Well, we may not always have national security issues at stake, but we have moral issues at stake.

You’ve been warned.

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