There already has been so much written about the pros and cons of a government-run healthcare system. I'm not going to rehash the same old-same old that can be found all over the blogosphere and forums. But there is one aspect of such a system that I have rarely seen addressed that I do believe must also be taken into consideration.
How can you have freedom of speech and protest against the same government that you rely on to provide for your and your loved one's health??
Think about it.
In a government run healthcare system you need the government to review and approve all your healthcare requests. Especially serious, chronic life&death treatments that are usually time consuming and very expensive.
So how can you bee free to voice opposition, much less strong impassioned opposition, against the same government that you then need to turn to in order to save your life or the love of someone you love?!
The answer is simple: You can't!
Just imagine an outspoken critic of the government then needing a major medical procedures – or worse, someone in their family needing it – and now having to apply to this same government that they have been soooooooo critical of to approve the treatment and payment. One would hope that politics remains out of the decision process but nothing in government is without some measure of politics.
Just imagine someone like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannety, Mark Levine, Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs, Dick Morris, Laura Ingrham, et al. suddenly needing cancer treatment or a organ transplant or perhaps life time treatment for something like MS or Parkinson's. Do you really think the government would be so quick and eager to provide it? MasterPo doesn't.
Not that government would outright say "No!" to the treatment (they might, who knows what politics will be like in the future!) but through weeks and months and possibly years of bureaucracy and the red tape government is famous for treatment will be delayed, withheld, or denied.
When you rely on someone else for literally your very life and the life of the people you love and care for how can you speak freely in criticism of them?
You can't!
Thus is how freedom dies.
Not with a gun shot.
But with something much worse – good intentions.
Not with a gun shot.
But with something much worse – good intentions.
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I solve this problem by having almost complete contempt for modern health care. I don't go to the doctor for anything but physical damage that is so bad I need to be cut open to put the pieces back together correctly. If the majority of people in the USA had my attitude the national debt wouldn't be half of what it is.
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