Left-Wing Hyperbole: Know what Healthcare is Just like? Slavery

See, we know that it isn't wild-eyed, hyperbole to say that slavery is "just like" our current healthcare debate because Glenn W. Smith of the extremist left-wing site Firedoglake helpfully tells us that "this is not hyperbole." See? Conflict solved. I’m glad we settled THAT one, I have to tell ya.

Unfortunately, one would have to cast aside all ability to think intelligently to be assured by so casual a disclaimer. It most certainly is hyperbole to claim that our current healthcare debate is "just like" slavery but not only does Smith indulge in such hyperbole, he also employs some of the sloppiest arguments I've seen with any debate for quite a while. On second thought, there isn’t much by way of “debate” in this thing because Smith just assumes the concept as a matter of fact and goes from there. There is no attempt to plum the logic of the principle at all.

There is no “health care” crisis. If people would just look at the facts, this would be clear. There are a certain number of people who choose not pay for HC insurance, even though it’s well-within their means to do so.

There are also is a significant percentage of the “uninsured” that could be covered by already existing government based plans.

There’s probably a SMALL percentage of Americans who aren’t covered by anything, but that could be fixed without creating a whole new government bureaucracy - perhaps a temporary benefit available to the unemployed, for a short and specific period of time that would be managed by Medicare.

The vast majority of the “uninsured” are illegal aliens, who shouldn’t be here in the first place. If hospitals weren’t forced to treat them in their ERs, the overall cost of health would as a percentage of GDP would drop significantly. America’s hospitals can’t continue to pick up the tab for 20 million illegal aliens. It’s putting more and more hospitals out of business in California, Arizona and other SW states.

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