” a “right” to free medical care is a right to enslave the physician.”
Well...it is. This is the critical line between worldviews of the utopian and the individual. The utopian believes that the government is this massive blob of money and power protoplasm that can afford anything, and certainly, there is ample evidence that the government can spend astronomical amounts of money on the most absurd things imaginable.
Individualists, OTOH, are just that. Not permitted in utopia, no thought is given to the amount of time and effort it takes to become an MD. The individualist thanks his lucky stars that his doc was somehow motivated to go to school for 11 years and learn his craft and do it....even if it’s expensive. (And the doc thanks his lucky stars that his plumber can fix the doc’s toilet)
But what the utopians leave out of their calculus, if you can call it that, is that getting the govt to spend money on YOU (and your healthcare) and/or what YOU think is important is strictly a matter of some spending arm of the govt perceiving you as a thing of value.
Once your anticipated medical contribution to the economy is placed into the hands of the government, a simple piece of math emerges.
Is your vote/my vote worth (let’s say) $1 million? An individual with a serious chronic illness or a multiple-episode heart condition (think Dick Cheney) could very conceivably consume $1 MM of medical care.
I would posit that for $1 million, the Democrats could import between 100 and 500 illegals, virtually ALL of whom would vote for Democrats if it were legal for them to vote, but the effort to ALLOW them to be able to vote will in and of itself gather perhaps 1000 more illegals to the Dem cause. And that holds true even if 30% of them die from...wait for it....crappy medical care!
When it’s all said and done FRiend, your vote and my vote, with these pigs, ain’t worth spit.
Well said.
As long as they can manipulate the system to keep them in the position to make the decisions. Their vulnerability is having to give at least lip service to democracy.
The utopian gene and the competence gene are rarely found in the same individual, so even though they achieve the 50% +1 vote, they usually screw things up in a way that ticks off the majority. These days, I live for opportunities like that.