Don't Want to Buy Health Insurance? Tough Beans.

The push by the White House and Democrats in Congress for universal health care is getting more ridiculous by the day, and the end result will be that we'll all end up with far less freedom. It is an absolutely indisputable fact that as government grows, freedom decreases. There can be no other way. Why? Because government is force. It is coercion. Government is the long arm of the law reinforcing certain behaviors and discouraging others under penalty of the law. If you increase the scope of government influence over the lives of citizens, they will have less freedom to make their own decisions. Government makes more decisions for them, or completely eliminates the freedom to make some decisions altogether. Case in point: don't want to bother spending money on health insurance? Our benevolent caretakers in Congress might take away your choice in the matter altogether. According to a new bill introduced in the Senate, "Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday". 1 Folks, this is the essence of socialism. Nanny politicians increasingly take away your ability to manage your own affairs and instead make you the subservient wards of the great socialist state. You apparently cannot take care of yourself, therefore socialist politicians who are far smarter and far more enlightened must do it for you. How can we possibly remain a free people when this is the kind of garbage flung upon us by our elected representatives? There is a reason F.A. Hayek called his classic treatise about the evils of socialism The Road to Serfdom. If we continue to tolerate the nonsense coming from the useless idiots running our federal government, we will find ourselves mere serfs in our own great land.


References


1. Senate bill fines people refusing health coverage. (July 2, 2009). Retrieved July 3, 2009 from, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlMpJGn28kqCcgU-aGcYE_ZHW-ywD996I6VO0

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