It seems Mark Steyn is much more sanguine about ObamaCare than I am.
It seems to me that we already have this leftist political culture even without the government health system.
Yeah, it’s never been about reforming healthcare but about Progressives seizing control of this Republic.
True indeed!
This is the single most important article ever posted in Free Republic... or anywhere else.
Unfortunately, I fear that it will remain so... that what it predicts will come to pass.
"And those are NOT my fingerprints all over the congressional bill.
I merely facilitated discussion between opposing parties."
Yesterday I went off on Mark and called him an idiot. Well I was the ‘idiot’ because, what Mark describes in this article is Australia.
There is no such thing as a “Conservative” party in a socialist country.
Mark, you nailed it and I apologize. I just hope that ALL of America realizes what they have to lose.
I just pray that the Republicans can hold them off until January of next year when there'll be nothing to worry about.
This happened in Hawaii. Even though we have a Republican Governor, she can hardly get anything done or passed as the whole rest of Hawaii’s legislature is pure left wing zombie’s. I mean from the two Senators to the House members down to the state house and senate. All democrats. I laugh when someone on Freepers says ,be sure to call your representative and let them know how you feel. I might just as well go out and talk to my concrete fence. They rule and don’t give a crap what we the people want or feel.
One way that Progressive Democrats have managed to keep alive their dead, defeated,
bankrupting theories on issues like so-called health care is by perverting the
definition of very basic terms.
The word “right” is one of the most glaring examples of a definition that’s been
distorted by the intellectual house-of-horrors mirror that is leftist theory.
Every American has the “right” to health care they argue.
They’re right. Every American does have a right to health care. In fact, they have
that “right” right now. They have the right to buy insurance. They have the right
to not buy insurance. They have the right to pay out of pocket. They have the
right get a second opinion. They have the right to rub a little dirt on it and suck
it up. They have a right to help out a friend in need. These are individual rights.
America is set upon individual rights.
What they don’t have is the “right” to health care in the perverted leftist sense
of the word.
A “right,” in the traditional American lexicon laid out by the likes of Thomas
Jefferson, is something that exists by virtue of our humanity. It is “inalienable”
and we are endowed with these rights by our creator. No government or
institution has the power to take away these rights. You exist, therefore these
rights exist.
In the leftist sense of the word, though, a “right” is something very different. In
fact, it’s not a “right” at all: it’s a handout provided to you by government, often
at exorbitant costs to society.
“I have the ‘right’ to health care!” the leftists demand angrily. “Therefore, the
government must provide it for me!” This is where they veer off course. You
do not have a ‘right to healthcare provided by government’. Or a house, or a
college degree or education, or car loan or food etc, etc, etc.
B-b-b-b-b-but!,” scream the leftists. “Insurance companies can already deny you
health care.”
No, they can’t. Insurance companies are certainly part of the problem. We’ve
grown to depend on them too much and on ourselves too little. The system does
need to be fixed.
But insurance companies cannot deny you the inalienable ”right” to health care.
They do not have that power. They can only choose not to pay for certain
procedures. You can still find another insurance company, seek help in a
different state, find a charitable doctor to pay for it, benefit from a fundraiser
or, worst-case scenario, benefit from the generosity of a well-funded, for-profit
private health care institution.
After all, you still have the “right” to find that care. Even in a worst-case
scenario in the current system, you only need the means.
But when government monopolizes the system, when government first decides
what kind of care you’ll get, and when government next decides if they’ll even
pay for it, your right to health care no longer exists
I believe that Obamacare is first and foremost about ObamaEgo. He wants to go down in history as the person who did what no one else could: create a “universal” [read socialist] health care system. May even be a grudgefest with the Clintons.
Whatever, anything else is secondary to his ego. JMO.
If Congress passes Obamacare it will be signing the death warrant for the US. Citizens will no longer look to their own efforts to improve their lives but will instead be consumed with getting the government to do it for them. “Health care” will be the excuse for government to micromanage anything and everything. We will all become “special interests” seeing government handouts as a “right,” with little regard as to what it does to the nation as a whole.
Pray that God would stop this demonic legislation from becoming law!
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Steyn, you don't know your real value to those of us out here who share conservative views.
It's all about the MONEY!!
They WANT the MONEY!!
Bump, and ping for later.
Awww Gawwwd. That's exactly how it feels.
