Freedom isn't free. It is bought with the blood of patriots. It is sustained by the exercise of personal responsibility of those who live under it's umbrella. In the wake of the Great Depression we sold a portion of our freedom in order to have the government provide us with retirement benefits. This week congress will seek to force Americans to exchange their freedom for the illusion of guaranteed affordable health care. Every tyrant comes to power by promising the people a rescue from some great fear.
No one wants to be without access to health care. All of us feel compassion for those who don't have, can't get, or cannot afford health insurance. But the price for universal coverage is a loss of freedom. The government will interfere in the free market and tell corporations who they can and cannot insure. Many of those "evil insurance companies" are owned by people like me and you if we have money invested in mutual funds. If you have an IRA or a 401k, that's YOUR business that the government is interfering with.
In order to "provide" coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, the federal government will force you to buy insurance whether you want it or not. They have to do this to keep people from gaming the system. Otherwise people wouldn't buy coverage until they developed a major illness. This would bankrupt the system. You are wise to have health insurance long before you become ill, but in a free country, you have the freedom to do so or not.
I have compassion for those who have serious illnesses and who cannot get access to insurance. I think charitable, loving, kindhearted people should give freely and help those in their circle of influence get the care they need. I don't think it is the responsibility of a government of free peoples to seize money from some of it's citizens, whether they are stockholders of insurance companies, young healthy adults who are making a free choice to spend their money on something other than health insurance, or any other American taxpayer, in order to provide that health care to those who don't have it.
We can have universal health care, for a while. Eventually as we continue down the path of expecting the government to provide the needs of the people, there will be too many receiving benefits, and too few paying in. The system will collapse. When that happens we will have mortgaged our freedoms and have no house of health care to show for it.
No one wants to be without access to health care. All of us feel compassion for those who don't have, can't get, or cannot afford health insurance. But the price for universal coverage is a loss of freedom. The government will interfere in the free market and tell corporations who they can and cannot insure. Many of those "evil insurance companies" are owned by people like me and you if we have money invested in mutual funds. If you have an IRA or a 401k, that's YOUR business that the government is interfering with.
In order to "provide" coverage for those with pre-existing conditions, the federal government will force you to buy insurance whether you want it or not. They have to do this to keep people from gaming the system. Otherwise people wouldn't buy coverage until they developed a major illness. This would bankrupt the system. You are wise to have health insurance long before you become ill, but in a free country, you have the freedom to do so or not.
I have compassion for those who have serious illnesses and who cannot get access to insurance. I think charitable, loving, kindhearted people should give freely and help those in their circle of influence get the care they need. I don't think it is the responsibility of a government of free peoples to seize money from some of it's citizens, whether they are stockholders of insurance companies, young healthy adults who are making a free choice to spend their money on something other than health insurance, or any other American taxpayer, in order to provide that health care to those who don't have it.
We can have universal health care, for a while. Eventually as we continue down the path of expecting the government to provide the needs of the people, there will be too many receiving benefits, and too few paying in. The system will collapse. When that happens we will have mortgaged our freedoms and have no house of health care to show for it.
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