National healthcare; beaurocracy in your kitchen
The Democrats want to buy your vote with a “comprehensive healthcare plan”. That sounds great, doesn’t it – everyone will have health care (even the people who up until now decided they didn’t want it), and it’ll all be handled by the government with it’s well-known inclination for efficiency and compassion – the same efficiency and compassion on display daily at your local post office.
Aside from all of the normal reasons we don’t want government-mandated healthcare, New Zealand has illustrated another reason we don’t want governement do-gooders in our business (link from the UK’s Telegraph);
A British man who moved to New Zealand has been told by officials that his wife is too fat to join him.
Richie Trezise, 35, a rugby-playing Welshman, lost weight to gain entry to New Zealand after being rejected for being overweight and a potential burden on the health care system.
Richie and Rowan Trezise have been battling to shed pounds
His wife, Rowan, is now on a strict diet. However, she has been battling for months to shed the pounds so they can be reunited and live Down Under.
Mr Trezise moved to New Zealand in September after shedding two inches from his waist on a crash diet. He said that if his wife was not allowed to come out by Christmas they would abandon the idea of emigrating.
Using their health care plan as an excuse, Kiwis have decided that it can be used as a measure for who they allow into the country – and who they ban.
We’ve all witnessed what the government has done to smoking in the last 40 years – they went from putting a warning label on cigarettes to taxing them out of reach for many people (cigarettes I bought in Panama last month were about $1/pack compared to $5/pack in Maryland).
National health care would bring the goverment into your kitchens and your grocery stores. The “recommended daily allowances” at we which glance curiously today, could easily become a rationing plan – mandated daily allowances in order to continue qualifying for the national healthcare program.
In Hillary’s plan back in 1993, she went as far as deciding who could and couldn’t be a doctor, based on ethnicity and race. Do you want the guy transplanting your ticker to be the guy who made the cut for med school based on the color of his skin? Since they’ve already shown their hand and told us to what extent they’re willing to reach into our lives as far as healthcare goes – is reaching into our refrigerators beyond them?
We already know that Canada’s patients are crossing over the border for emergency care in the US, so when the USÂ government takes over our healthcare, where do we go?
