How did the health-care debate decay to the point where we think it entirely natural for the central government to fix a collective figure for what 300 million freeborn citizens ought to be spending on something as basic to individual liberty as their own bodies?
That’s the argument that needs to be won. And, if you think I’m being frivolous in positing bureaucratic regulation of doughnuts and vacations, consider that under the all-purpose umbrellas of “health” and “the environment,” governments of supposedly free nations are increasingly comfortable straying into areas of diet and leisure. Last year, a British bill attempted to ban Tony the Tiger, longtime pitchman for Frosties, from children’s TV because of his malign influence on young persons. Why not just ban Frosties? Or permit it by prescription only? Or make kids stand outside on the sidewalk to eat it? It was also proposed – by the Conservative Party, alas – that, in the interests of saving the planet, each citizen should be permitted to fly a certain number of miles a year, after which he would be subject to punitive eco-surtaxes. Isn’t restricting freedom of movement kind of, you know … totalitarian?
Please read the whole thing. It is important to recognize that what Steyn is pointing out here is absolutely true. If even a hollow shell of ObamaCare is passed, it will be tweaked and meddled with by Congress and the Obama-loaded courts until eventually we will have health care rationing. the elderly and the handicapped will be “Orszaged” or deemed non-cost effective by a bureaucrat and given a few pills rather than any meaningful medical treatment. That bureaucrat, meanwhile will not be subjected to being Orszaged, what with those solid gold, non ObamaCare medical care fully paid for by the bureaucrat’s victims.
This ObamaCare is a lot more of a problem for America than the health care “crisis” it purports to address. How much is your liberty itself worth? Being relieved of the responsibility for bad choices will cost you, your children and future generations too much. Wake up to what this really is, folks. The best bet we have to stop this liberty-destroying monstrosity is to insist that all members of Congress and all Federal employees be subjected to the exact, same health care that the masses receive – no exceptions, no exemptions.
Start calling your representative, start calling your senators. Better start making noise if you want to be heard over the manufactured astroturfing of the Axelrod Ministry of Truthiness.
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