I guess that's next.
Actually the next step will be regulating our personal lives under the guise of 'keeping health-care costs down'. This is their argument for mandating health-care, so it is the next obvious step. If my choices regarding my level of health care can be extrapolated to effect everyone, then there is no end to the amount of regulation they can place on our personal lives.
How can you be allowed to over-eat ice cream, when the public will have to pay for your health care? How can you go skydiving, when we will all have to pay for your health-care? How can you drive a motorcycle when we all have to pay for your health0care? How can you smoke? How can you drink? How can you make any choices?
The real problem with universal health care is the threat to our individual sovereignty that WILL be posed. In essence, you no longer own your life, since I am paying for it.If Healthcare is a "right", isn't food? Shouldn't the government take over our food delivery system?
Through minimum wage laws, the dole, subsidising farmers etc. the government ensures people can afford food, which whilst in itself not a right, comes as part of the right to life. Health care, on the other hand, is driven by profit making and so is expensive, and quality care is not available to everyone.
Americans need to get over their misguided love affair with medical insurance. The US spends more than any other country on health care (both average and total) and yet their healthcare outcomes are among the lowest in the OECD. So who gets all the cash? The insurance companies.
Look at Europe. Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. They all have health care systems that deliver better results to more people, with higher average standards of care, and yet cost 1/8th the price or less. They also all allow private care for those that want it or can afford it. Why the fear? Because health care insurance companies in the US know that their public-funded gravy train is threatened. The sad thing is that the vast majority of Americans don't actually understand what is being talked about, and know even less about other systems in other countries. Fearmongering at its best.If Healthcare is a "right", isn't food? Shouldn't the government take over our food delivery system?
Just be patient. The senator wife of a Monsanto executive has sponsored legislation that would give the federal government jurisdiction over every last acre and backyard garden and farmer's market in the country, they expect her husband a likely nominee as "czar". Both Monsanto and Archer Daniels are strongly behind that, and as they sell fertilizers and pesticides/herbicides don't expect favor of organic farming practices. And yes, transportation is directly effected by the climate change bill, if anyone ever reads what's in the thing they voted for, I'm sure they have formulated a "emergency crisis" response and rationing of food supplies, you have to realize that a lot of WW2 rationing was purely psychological, I expect it will be with food and fuel in this country, travel will be restricted, farmers will be dictated to as to what they grow and what they do with it, many people speculated this is what the recent agricultural census and the 28 pages of questions in the new US Census is for. After all they are blaming livestock emissions for global warming, even though Al Gore eats more steak than two normal people. The new energy taxes will cripple transportation if they go as far as some lobbyists demanded, that will drive food prices up, reduce variety and outlets, that will cause panic and hoarding, shortages, and then once again the Almighty Obama will come floating down from heaven on high with his angel bureaucrats to save the day and allow us to kiss his feet and be grateful for the chance. Less taxes, less government. It's those two issues that cause famines as much as any natural phenomena, be it early 1800's UK (the potato blight was just the last straw, not the cause, it's another liberal myth) or modern day Zimbawe. Farmers have been in decline ever since government began regulating everything, I have seen dairy farms decline from 24 to 2 in the last three decades in my town, increasing regulations, property and inheritance taxes forced them out, and all these big dairy bills do is help the large corporate farms. We used to have 24 to 40 cow dairies, daily milk trains into NYC and a booming cheese and butter industry, now they use artificial chemicals and foreign condensed product, yet they ship food from here to places like Africa, in fact this year Obama handed out a record amount of foreign aid as we go into record breaking trillions of dollars of debt to foreign creditors. Plant a garden, fruit/nut trees and berry bushes, learn what wild plants/herbs are edible/medicinal if you are serious about the survival of yourself and family because anything that depends on trucks or trains in the country to get to your mouth, could come to a halt one day, especially if your state or community votes the wrong way. Just like republican owned dealerships being the ones that get axed, even though dealerships buy the cars and present no liability to the car manufacturer, if people don't buy cars, having less vendors, less competition, won't improve the situation. Replace "car" with "food" and you can see where the food supply is going. Time to fire the idiots running our "company, vote out all incumbants in 2010/2012.
Government fixes everything, amirite?
I just spent too much time looking at "In Soviet Russia..." jokes, lol
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/In_Sovi鈥?/a>If Healthcare is a "right", isn't food? Shouldn't the government take over our food delivery system?
How can you have a "right" to another persons labor and property?
You can't, that's why all of these government wealth redistribution plans are wrong.
MM think I missed something when reading question any more details ? am in another country did not get gist of the question sorry
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