Health Care Not a Right

The Gorillas and Paper Tigers Of The Health Care Debate

Healthcare can not be a right. That is the 800 pound gorilla in the room.

Nothing can be a right that requires, read that “forces,” another human being to produce a product or provide a service. That situation undermines the 13th Amendment to the Constitution: No indentured servitude and no slavery.

No product or thing can be a “right.” The only things that are guarenteed rights are specified in the Constitution for instance the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights . They are there to protect you from the actions of government that restrict your liberty to act in your own self-interest. 

If government healthcare is guaranteed by law and made a right, it means that unless Congress is filled with doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical device inventors, researchers and drug developers and have the time and experience to provide services and care to all Americans, Congress will have to force someone else to do or provide those things. 

Passing a new law can not "bring health care" to anyone unless that law forces someone to do it. I don't want to be treated by slaves the next time I need medical services. Do you?

The next time you hear some politician try to muster support for government health care, picture the new slave: Your doctor.

Also, do not let those opposed to government health care use paper tiger reasons like: Costs too much, ruins private insurance, intrudes on privacy. Yes, it will do all those things, but the true Constitutional protection against government run healthcare lies in its hidden victims--the slaves it plans to capture.

I will personally support the ouster of anyone in public office who supports slavery. We rid this nation of it once, I do not want to fight that battle again. But, I will.

Preserve freedom.
Stay well.