Why You Shouldn’t Want Government In Charge Of Health Care

Freedom.

Freedom, or rather the loss thereof is why you shouldn’t want any form of government to have control of health care.  Especially financial control.

So you don’t quite understand this, do you?  Don’t worry, most people don’t get it.  Even after they understand it, some just don’t care.

Here’s how this works.  If someone’s paying for something you’re taking advantage of, they have control of how you use that product or service.  If the government contributes to your pension, they have a say in how both their money and yours can be invested.  If they pay for a road, they get to make the rules for its use and maintenance.  If they pay for a vehicle, they have the same say as they do about use and maintenance as they would for that road.

Do you get it yet?  No?  OK, I’ll tie it together for you.

If the government is paying for your health care, they’re paying for your upkeep and therefore have a say in everything that impacts the object of that fiscal expenditure.  By funding your health care, they have a say over ANYTHING you do with your body.

Do you like to eat red meat?  How about riding a motorcycle without a helmet?  Shooting without ear plugs or eye protection?  Do you like to drink alcohol?  How about tobacco – do you smoke or chew?  Do you like having unprotected sex?  Do you want to have your wife give birth at home?  Kiss it all goodbye.

Some out there might say that these are stupid things to do.  I might agree on some, but the point isn’t whether or not they’re good or bad, smart or dumb, but that you have the choice in most areas to do as you please and by funding your health care, the federal government would have a means to directly legislate how you live your life.

Have you ever seen Demolition Man? It’s been a pretty good road map so far as to how things are turning out these days.

Cops can’t do much of anything and the government, headed by a “benevolent” figure named Raymond Cocteau, tells everyone how to live. They’ve achieved peace and health at the cost of freedom.

There’s still a resistance movement literally living underground and feeding on the scraps of the society above. All prisoners are cryogenically frozen, but Cocteau has a plan to rid himself of the leader of the resistance, Edgar Friendly (Denis Leary). Cocteau releases the most dangerous prisoner, Simon Phoenix (played by Wesley Snipes) to kill Edgar Friendly, but he goes on a rampage instead. Police lieutenant Lanina Huxley (Sandra Bullock) releases wrongly convicted police officer John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) to go after Phoenix.

Here’s a few quotes.

(Stallone as John Spartan) -You, get me a Marlboro.
(other person)-Yes, of course.

(other person)What’s a Marlboro?

(Stallone as John Spartan)It’s a cigarette. Any cigarette.

(Bullock as Lenina Huxley) Smoking is not good for you.
Anything not good for you is bad.

(Huxley)Hence, illegal. Alcohol, caffeine,
contact sports, meat–

(Spartan)Are you shitting me?

(Computer)You are fined one credit for violation
of the verbal-morality statute.

(Spartan)What the hell is that?

(Computer)-You are fined one credit….
(Spartan)-Bad language…

(Huxley)…chocolate, gasoline, uneducational toys
and spicy food.

(Huxley)Abortion is illegal, so is pregnancy
if you don’t have a license.

(Squad Leader) Simon Phoenix! Lie down with your hands behind your back.

Simon Phoenix: What’s this? Six of you. Such nice, tidy uniforms. Oh I’m so scared!

[the Police Officers look at each other]

Simon Phoenix: What you guys don’t have sarcasm anymore?

(Squad Leader to his automated assistant) Maniac has responded with a scornful remark.

(automated assistant) Approach, and repeat ultimatum in an even firmer tone of voice. Add the words, “or else”

Get ready for the “Cocteau Plan” everyone.

I tend to be a bit more like Denis Leary’s character, Edgar Friendly.

(Edgar Friendly) You see, according to Cocteau’s plan I’m the enemy, ’cause I like to think; I like to read. I’m into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I’m the kind of guy likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder – “Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?” I WANT high cholesterol. I wanna eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-o all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal? I’ve SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It’s a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing “I’m an Oscar Meyer Wiener”.

(Edgar Friendly) Up top, you live Cocteau’s way.
What he wants, when he wants,
how he wants.
Your other choice: come here.
Maybe starve to death.

If you don’t see the connection between government funding of your upkeep and government regulation of every aspect of your life, I can’t help you. Best of luck to you, though!