Mark Steyn on HillaryCare II
Mark Steyn, in his usual (some would say sarcastic) way, explains HillaryCare II to us.
A year ago, I wrote that “the story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government ‘security,’ large numbers of people vote to dump freedom – the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, seat belts and a ton of other stuff.”
Last week freedom took another hit. Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled her new health care plan. Unlike her old health care plan, which took longer to read than most cancers take to kill you, this one’s instant and painless – just a spoonful of government sugar to help the medicine go down. From now on, everyone in America will have to have health insurance.
Hooray!
And, if you don’t, it will be illegal for you to hold a job.
Er, hang on, where’s that in the Constitution? It’s perfectly fine to employ legions of the undocumented from Mexico, but if you employ a fit 26-year-old American with no health insurance either you or he or both of you will be breaking the law?
That’s a major surrender of freedom from the citizen to the state. “So what?” says the caring crowd. “We’ve got to do something about those 40 million uninsured! Whoops, I mean 45 million uninsured. Maybe 50 by now.” This figure is always spoken of as if it’s a club you can join but never leave: The very first Uninsured-American was ol’ Bud who came back from the Spanish-American War and found he was uninsured and so was first on the list, and then Mabel put her back out doing the Black Bottom at a tea dance in 1926 and she became the second, and so on and so forth, until things really began to snowball under the Bush junta. And, by the time you read this, the number of uninsured may be up to 75 million.
The fact is we don’t really know how many people (Americans) are actually uninsured or underinsured.
I read a piece the other day stating that 20% of our uninsured are actually illegal aliens in our country.
What would be the incentive for a company to offer a good health care package to potential or existing employees if the company knows the “government” will provide the insurance for them?
What will the real cost of health care be for the taxpayers, and not just those who make from $90,000 to $250,000 per year depending on which Democratic candidate is giving the numbers?
And what about those numbers? How many times can you spend the same money?
When my daughter was a teen we had told her we were going to give her x amount of dollars for a birthday gift.
You should have heard all the things she was going to buy with it. I finally asked her where she was going to get the money to buy all these things and she innocently replied “From the money I get from you”, except she gave the dollar figure.
I told her she had spent that amount of money four or five times over already with everything she was planning to buy.
Reality set in and she got what she most wanted, but I’m afraid reality to a politician is to raise taxes when you over-promise on the same amount of money. The problem is once they get their hands into your pockets they never take them out.
Then we get real change because change is all you have left when they’re finished spending you poor.
Written by ~J~
