{"id":8383,"date":"2013-11-05T12:14:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/05\/but-what-if-i-want-a-crappy-plan-and-by-which-standard-is-it-crappy\/"},"modified":"2013-11-05T12:14:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-05T12:14:58","slug":"but-what-if-i-want-a-crappy-plan-and-by-which-standard-is-it-crappy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/11\/05\/but-what-if-i-want-a-crappy-plan-and-by-which-standard-is-it-crappy\/","title":{"rendered":"But What if I Want a ‘Crappy’ Health Plan and by Which Standard is it ‘Crappy’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"Schultz\"<\/a>For liberal scumbaggery and dumbassery, it is hard to beat Ed Schultz.  This is the guy who called<\/a> the sweet and loveable and ladylike Laura Ingraham a "right-wing slut."  Now he is saying that the health plans that Obamacare will outlaw are 'crappy.'<\/span><\/p>\n

If so, there must be some one standard relative to which they are adjudged 'crappy.'  But what is that standard, and who sets it?  Is maternity care built into the standard?  But maternity is not in my<\/em> future, or in my  past for that matter.  And if you are a woman past a certain age, or a nun of any age, maternity is not in your future either.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Primary care physicians advise their patients to have colonoscopies starting at the age of 50.  Suppose you are a healthy 27-year-old runner who thrives on a fiber-rich diet.  You and Sir Thomas Crapper are on most excellent terms.  Your policy does not cover colonoscopies, let us assume.  Does that make it 'crappy'?  Not at all.  It makes it reasonable. Why buy what you don't need?<\/span><\/p>\n

So what would be a crappy plan for one person might not be for another. It depends on age, sex, and other factors.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who is to decide?  Obviously, the person in question or the person's parent or guardian.  Not the government.<\/span><\/p>\n

So here is the nub of the issue.  The government has no right to force you to buy health care or health insurance (not the same, by the way), or anything else.  Whether you buy and what you buy is your business.  Or do you think that the citizen-state relation is or is closely analogous to the child-parent relation?<\/span><\/p>\n

The various mandates (individual, employer, HHS) are egregious assaults upon individual liberty and upon the mediating structures of civil society such as private enterprises, clubs, fraternal associations, and churches.  (In a later post I plan to talk about contraceptives and abortifacients and the assault on religious liberty.)  <\/span><\/p>\n

So do you value liberty? Or do you want an Obama-style "fundamental transformation" of our country in the direction of  a collectivist nanny-state?   We are well on the way to it already.  How far do you want to go?<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us understand what is fundamentally at issue here.  Let's not get hung up on details such as those pertaining to the inasupicious 'rollout' of ObamaCare.  We need clarity as to the "conflict of visions" ( T. Sowell) of Right and Left.<\/span><\/p>\n

But we can't have clarity as long as Obama and his defenders lie and bullshit and prevaricate.  The latter include Feinstein, Pelosi, and Wasserman-Schultz.
<\/span><\/p>\n

So, Mr President, please tell us forthrightly what your vision for America is.  Don't lie to us, or try to trick or fool us or try achieve your ends by stealth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then and only then can we have the 'conversation' — to use a nice squishy bien-pensant<\/em> liberal word — we need to have about the direction of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

But please, no more lies, and no more lies about your lies. <\/span><\/p>\n

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For liberal scumbaggery and dumbassery, it is hard to beat Ed Schultz.  This is the guy who called the sweet and loveable and ladylike Laura Ingraham a "right-wing slut."  Now he is saying that the health plans that Obamacare will outlaw are 'crappy.' If so, there must be some one standard relative to which they … Continue reading “But What if I Want a ‘Crappy’ Health Plan and by Which Standard is it ‘Crappy’?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383","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=8383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}