On Saturday, President Obama said the now-passed medical welfare bill was middle of the road policy. Unfortunately, it does not matter which side of the road you drive on when it leads to Hell…
Just before the vote Sunday night, Nancy Pelosi tried to convince someone this bill was fulfilling the Founders’ original vision of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” I have to ask does she really believe this, or was she trying to convince herself. At what point did the Founders concede the government would be the vehicle to convey those natural rights? Why didn’t Pelosi just say she was fulfilling Benjamin Franklin’s promise that the Constitution could not guarantee tyranny would not arise if the people allowed it?
The left always wants us to forget the states were settled by the free-thinkers and individualists who rejected European-style government domination (and the same for later immigrants.) Those few supporters of the crown ended up in Canada (surprise.) Freedom is, in truth, innate in us. Sadly, some of us are devolving.
Earlier in the day, one of the Stupak Stooges said with this bill’s passage, no longer would a woman have to get an abortion because she could not afford the medical care to carry the baby to term. I’m sorry – I didn’t know pregnancy was an illness! Babies don’t die because you don’t see a doctor. When did people become so brain-dead? There are midwives, charities, etc who would be glad to help during a pregnancy. As much as I loathe the concept – there is Medicaid. If you visited a midwife prenatally and delivered in an emergency room, would it not be worth the cost? God forbid you have to pay for it. Sounds like a couple of excuses embedded in the Congresswoman’s statement.
Let us look at the inverse. Do we not think this bill will eventually have disincentives for having “too many” children. If the government has a vested interest in “the cost” of health care, would it not seek to reign in exposure? Or is that just the practice of the nefarious insurance companies who have the power to enforce nothing?
But here lies the true puzzle, if health care, or whatever the hell it’s called today, is now a fundamental right – how can the government limit it? If treatment is a right then care can never be denied for any reason. If I want a new hip and I am 102 and in a wheelchair with only one leg, I better get it. If I want Medicare to pay for lengthening my penis so I can urinate in the toilet without getting out of my Rascal, I better get it. How can a right be unlimited if it requires money and services from so many other people? How is it even a right? There in lies the conundrum.
No longer will being an American citizen be a pre-existing condition; now you’ll have to show your insurance papers.
