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Democrats
claim that healthcare, particularly "affordable"
healthcare, is a right. Where exactly is this right to
be found? In the Magna Carta?
In the Mayflower Compact? In the "Rights of
Man"? In the American Constitution?
Given
that healthcare is not a creation of our modern era and there have
always been doctors - whether by potion or by medical origins -
there has yet to be one instance where the mere presence of those
who practice healthcare means that everyone is owed affordable
care.
Democrats
would like you to believe that by virtue of you being born that
you are owed healthcare that you can afford - and that healthcare
should be the best - and that if you can't afford that healthcare,
others should be compelled to give you a healthcare you wouldn't
otherwise be able to receive. You see,
affordable healthcare is not what Democrats are truly advocating -
for they'd be working on a policy that actually controlled costs
and reduced the cost of healthcare to all. What
Democrats are advocating is disparate healthcare - that the poor
should receive healthcare that is beyond their means and that in
order to receive healthcare that the poor cannot afford, someone
else must bear the burden, through compulsory edict of the States,
of subsidizing the healthcare of others.
Such a
policy of compulsion is antithetical to the Founding Fathers'
political and ethical beliefs. The Constitution does
not award another citizen the right to receive something by virtue
of compelling another person to pay for it. The
Founders did argue that everyone should have the equal opportunity
to pursue life and liberty, but neither are guaranteed to
occur. Those who bust their butt to take
advantage of opportunity should not be compelled to subsidize or
to prop up those who fail to take advantage of their natural gifts
and talents. And while those who cannot escape
their plight makes great sob stories, it is not a basis in
rights. You have the right to pursue your life,
but you have no right to expect or to compel someone else to pay
for it.
And to
the extent that Obamacare does nothing to contain costs, compels
others to pay higher premiums to offset others' premiums, to
compel the healthy to pay for those with "pre-existing"
conditions, and then to punish those who've worked harder than
others who have better plans than others. Then this
notion extends to demanding that men will subsidize the higher
cost of being born a woman and to then subsidize women getting
birth control just because they shape the notion in terms of a
pill that prevents pregnancy as one that is a medical procedure to
extent life.
But
none of this substantiates where the notion of the right to
affordable healthcare originates.
If the
leftists were honest, they'd admit that the notion of affordable
healthcare is something they made up - something that they pulled
out of their ass as something so admirable that no one could
possibly be negated through a review of logic.
But unfortunately you can't then construct a way to have
affordable healthcare for all - the higher the demand for
services, the higher the price that will be charged or the
shortage of a finite supply of facilities and doctors that will be
available. This is simple economics.
Now if
you wish to try to provide affordable healthcare to all, wouldn't
it be more intelligent and effective to allow those who can
already buy their own insurance of their own choosing to simply
continue what they are doing unmolested?
Allowing the 80% or more who have insurance that they magically
found on their own reduces the size of the potential problem to
solve. That would leave about 20% of the
population to worry about - 3/4 of that population that currently
has no healthcare insurance - some by choice - some because of
circumstance.
If we
were to worry about those who can't get insurance because of
circumstance, that would be a truly more manageable issue to
resolve. And it might even be a more admirable
notion that would get a more universal support.
Perhaps we create a process for statewide expansion and support of
free clinics that would provide the most basic of care to shift
people from emergency rooms to free clinics. We'd have
lower costs and be able to help even more people by taking out the
uninsured from hospitals and requiring them to visit the health
clinics. It would seem that if you are going to compel
any population into something that they are not now doing, you'd
compel the consumers of services into a system that has managed
costs instead of compelling everyone into a system that is proving
to be ineffective, expensive, and barely functional.
Perhaps you give tax credits to all hospitals and to other medical
related businesses to make it profitable for them to donate
services, equipment, or money to provide low cost care - perhaps
you entice medical colleges to allow their students to spend more
time learning in free clinics instead of the current hospital
environment - suddenly providing a pool of medical services not
otherwise available - with a limited amount of doctors overseeing
this and and expansion of nurse practitioners.
The
issue of women's health is a non-issue - they should bear the
burden of their higher costs just like male drivers bear their
higher costs while women get lower premiums. We should
ensure that those who consume higher resources pay the higher
prices for their care.
Those
with pre-existing conditions should pay a higher premium because
they cost more to cover - they consume more resources and cost
more to cover.
What
is happening is that leftists are trying to redefine
"insurance" into "welfare" - that is that
because you fabricate that affordable healthcare is a right when
it isn't, you then demand that everyone pay for everyone's care -
that is not insurance - that is a government welfare
plan. And since there is no way in hell that insurance
companies can stay in business covering everyone at an affordable
cost to the consumers of services, insurance will become
unavailable over the long term - thus requiring more government
intervention and thus, by issue of self-fulfilling prophecy,
require welfare to resolve the insurance collapse - even as it was
government that caused the insurance companies to fail or bail.
Make
no mistake here - leftists see healthcare as a bribery tool to get
votes from the lazy and infirm and seeks to punish those who
achieve by making their coverage less effective and affordable -
and to all do this to cause a collapse of the present system and
to make healthcare, cradle to grave, the responsibility of the
Government - and then those officials can decide who gets the care
and who gets to die. And when the Government has
control over healthcare, they can compel you to eat only healthy
foods they choose, they can forbid dangerous lifestyles, require
you to get physicals, and do a host of other compulsory actions of
their own choosing based upon who is governing.
Imagine the shock to those who are gay who fear the right if the
right were to gain control of things and then seek to ban sexual
practices that spread AIDS!
The
left has suggested that the need to have Obamacare is that the
poor use emergency rooms and don't pay for it shifting costs to
others, but by the very implementation of Obamacare, the costs of
sluts, the poor, the sick, and every other consumer of healthcare
are shited onto the costs of those who have never used the
services! There is thus simply no rationale for
having Obamacare since the very cost shift that is purported to
exist in the Status Quo is only exacerbated under Obamacare and
not resolved at all!
Perhaps
the solution is to allow states to implement healthcare as they
see fit. If leftist states want to have compulsory
insurance, then let them have it. If free-market
states want to try something else, lets allow that to
happen. Let's have fifty years or so of this approach to see
which system proves to work better and which has a lower cost and
a higher health result! But it is obvious that
compelling every man to subsidize every woman, that compelling
every innocent and healthy person to subsidize the cost of the
lazy, the foolish, and the sick is not going to
work. And fundamental to the Obama solution is
not one resolution into the escalating costs of care.
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