CA Governor’s Universal Healthcare Insurance

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed a plan that would mandate healthcare insurance coverage for everyone in California, including a large number of citizens unwilling to pay the huge costs, and still millions more who are unable to afford it. One published estimate is that 6.5 million Californians are currently uninsured, not to mention many millions of illegal aliens, their famlies and children, all of whom would become taxpayer subsidized.

Analysis: (1) Socialized medicine advances the concept that the needs or desires of some people give them a claim on the lives and property of others. (2) The proposed "plan" turns the providers -- the doctors, hospitals, and businesses -- into the serfs of those arbitrarily deemed to be in need. (3) One of the proposed funding mechanisms is the reduction of welfare benefits to American citizens. (4) There is no universal right to health care coverage, any more than there is a universal right for anything else unearned. (5) The Schwarzenegger egalitarian healthcare scheme, like ALL other socialist schemes, requires wielding massive government force to violate the rights of an untold numbers of individuals and families.

Summary: The difference between labor and welfare is who actually works to provide the good life. In California it is apparent that Americans don't count for very much - not much more than a host organism for a parasite. Since there is no serious effort being made to defend the border, hopefully the last American out of California will have the courtesy to turn off the lights.

Posted January 12, 2007 03:02 AM
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