{"id":12499,"date":"2009-08-02T19:33:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T19:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/02\/health-care-a-liberty-issue-2\/"},"modified":"2009-08-02T19:33:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T19:33:07","slug":"health-care-a-liberty-issue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/08\/02\/health-care-a-liberty-issue-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care: A Liberty Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Steyn <\/font>gets it right.<\/font><\/a>  Excerpts (emphasis<\/strong> added):<\/font><\/p>\n

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. . . [nationalized] health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. That\u2019s its attraction for an ambitious president: It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in a way that hands all the advantages to statists \u2014 to those who believe government has a legitimate right to regulate human affairs in every particular. [. . .]<\/font><\/p>\n

It\u2019s often argued that, as a proportion of GDP, America spends more on health care than countries with government medical systems. But, as a point of fact, \u201cAmerica\u201d doesn\u2019t spend anything on health care: Hundreds of millions of people make hundreds of millions of individual decisions about what they\u2019re going to spend on health care.<\/strong> Whereas up north a handful of bureaucrats determine what Canada will spend on health care \u2014 and that\u2019s that: Health care is a government budget item. [. . .]<\/font><\/p>\n

How did the health-care debate decay to the point where we think it entirely natural for the central government to fix a collective figure for what 300 million freeborn citizens ought to be spending on something as basic to individual liberty as their own bodies?
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Are you willing to sell your birthright, liberty, for a mess of pottage?  That's the issue.  Liberals are a strange breed of cat. They'll puke their guts out in defense of their 'right' to abortion and their 'right' to violate every norm of decency in pursuit of the 'artistic' expression of their precious and vacuous selves, but when it comes to the right to be in control of the sorts of care their bodies receive they reverse course and surrender their liberties.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Mark Steyn gets it right.  Excerpts (emphasis added): . . . [nationalized] health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. That\u2019s its attraction for an ambitious president: It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in a way that hands all the advantages to statists \u2014 to those who … Continue reading “Health Care: A Liberty Issue”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}