Many generations ago many of our forefathers sought the New World to escape the heavy hand of the State. Eventually, those great pioneers (or perpetrators of environmental and cultural damage if you’re a Progressive) created the United States of America. The spirit of the United States was that the government wasn’t involved in every aspect of your life.
If President Obama and the leaders of Democratic Party get their way this week the State will make it law that everyone must get health care. It will be against the law to “choose” not to have health care. If you’re a healthy 28 year old the heavy hand of the government will force you to purchase health care you do not need to pay for someone else’s health care. So when President Obama says if you like your current health care plan, you can keep it, he’s not telling the truth. What if I like not having health care insurance? Can I keep that plan? No!
It is for this reason that I call on our inspirational ancestors and declare than I am firmly in favor of the separation of health care and State. It’s not the government’s responsibility to tell its citizens to get health care. Safety nets are already in place in this country. No one is dying in emergency rooms because they’re not insured. This entitlement mentality already grips most of the left. If this bill passes this cancer will spread.
“Some of my libertarian friends balk at what looks like an individual mandate,” Romney wrote in The Wall Street Journal in 2006. “But remember, someone has to pay for the health care that must, by law, be provided: Either the individual pays or the taxpayers pay. A free ride on government is not libertarian.”
And you thought it was an “entitlement mentality”!
I’m not sure what your point is? The problems with RomneyCare are well documented.