Posted on Saturday, 11/07/2009 - 6:49 a.m. PST — by GoldenPoppy
This article brings to mind several things. I confess to a bias as a Kaiser member who is quite pleased with the care I have received for many years.
One, we already have many free services but many refuse to take advantage of them. " You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink" applies here.
Second, Kaiser proved many years ago that health care would be overused of it was free. Why not a sliding fee scale?
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The authors, in support of socialized medicine, rhetorically ask "Remind us again: What exactly do we value more than our lives and our health?"
America's Founding Fathers had an answer to that: Freedom and Liberty. Who can forget the call of Patrick Henry, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" Freedom and Liberty were the most important things to most Americans of that day, and to many even of this day, especially the American Armed Forces, who put their lives on the line every day.
The socialized medicine scheme the authors endorse trashes our Constitution and will set liberty and freedom in America back to the tyranny of pre-revolutionary days, with bureaucrats dictating every facet of our lives.
We in America have lived a blissful existence within our borders, and have never experienced the mind-bending atrocities of the Socialist state and the loss of personal freedom and liberty. We are about to learn.
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