There have been protests and outrage and packed town hall type meetings all over the place, at least here in Michigan, aimed at the looming and monstrous health care reform. Great fears have arisen that not everyone will be covered; this beyond legitimate fears that government health care will adversely affect the population because health care will (and I mean will) eventually be rationed. It has to be, in the long run. That's the only way bureaucrats will ever be able to keep up with costs.
We have been and will be told incessantly that that won't happen here. Safeguards will be written into the law. Well, that settles it, then. No future Congresses would ever change the laws, would they? No nameless, faceless man behind a desk will ever alter guidelines or policy, correct? No populist president with charm and guile will come from nowhere to assure the people that such things are necessary for our overall health as a nation, is that it?
It does not matter who says what today, if we give this kind of power to the government we are giving away the health care store. It does not matter whether the intentions of our current lawmakers are the best intentioned in our history (a dubious proposition, to say the least) their will cannot override the wills of future leaders. Government power rarely ebbs. But it surely flows, freely and swiftly, over any dam which has been breached.
They say we will be covered, but will the future 'theys' in power when we're forty years older feel the same obligation?
Don't trust them; our current leaders or our future politicos. Some decisions must be kept private. Health care is one of the premier among these. If you want your life in someone else's hand, at least let your hand be the one which chooses them.
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criticism is easy. creation is much more difficult. so create for your readers a solution to the health care crisis that is more worthy of our consideration.
Very good point, I wholeheartedly agree. Buckwheat may be able to come up with some of their own alternatives if they exercised their brain for a few minutes.
Buckwheat and Mae: thank you both for commenting. As always, I welcome contributions to both this blog and the general discussion of issues.
As to creating my own solution to health care issues, I must respond that I am not obliged to do so for the very simple and sincere reason that I believe health care should be completely and totally privatized. Each individual must ultimately be responsible for their own health needs. I have no inherent right to tell them how to pursue that goal any more than I have a right to tell them what kind of a job they should have or where they should purchase a home.
With any kind of government health care, however, I am being told what kind of care I should get. This is a clear violation of individual rights and worthy only of, quite frankly, those who want to control others. At one time we called these people tyrants.
To be sure, we need to make it so that the poor and downtrodden have access to needed health care. But it is my experience that such is already the case: hospitals cannot turn down those with grave conditions, and there are hospitals (Receiving Hospital here in Detroit) in place precisely for those who cannot go anywhere else.
Governments should not be creating anything more than an environment which allows relevant and proper individual choices to flower. Then, and only then, will see any worthwhile solutions to the issues which concern us.
Thanks again for posting!
couldn't have said it better myself.....really. haha
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