Silky: You’re going to the doctor whether you want to or not

redshirt on September 3, 2007 at 2:41 PM

What are you thinking? Who cares if someone is fat or smokes? It isn’t your or mine business what someone’s lifestyle is. As a freeman I have the right to smoke or eat if I so choose. The consequences of those actions will be mine and mine alone. It is my choice not yours or the governments.

This reminds me of the seatbelt laws debate. The theory went that if everyone used their seatbelts the death rate would be lower and the amount of our auto insurance would decrease because there would be less costs to the insurance industry. Well my state now has mandatory seatbelt laws for the last 10 years and guess what my auto insurance costs more not less with a clean driving record. We were sold a bill of goods by the public do-gooders and got nothing (not even a decrease in the death rate) but a lousy bumper sticker slogan (click it or ticket)

And we lost one more freedom. Now we have police stopping cars for no reason but a seatbelt. Think about this. Every person in America can no longer leave their house and travel without breaking at least one law somewhere at some time. Go over 1 mile on the speed limit your a criminal, forget to sign your registration your a criminal, put your sticker on your plate wrong your a criminal, don’t stop long enough at a stop sign even when no one else is coming your a criminal, forget the seatbelt watch out your now a threat to the public safety.

Now you want to criminalize smoking and eating to much. What are we going to have? Waiters ready to write tickets if you get the desert or have an after dinner smoke?

Freedom is not free sometimes we have to pay for our freedoms. All of our freedoms. Insurance prices are not high because people smoke or eat too much. They have been smoking and eating too much for 200 years in this country. The prices are high because the HMO’s want to make max profits. They are high because the doctors, drug companies, and hospitals want max profits, they are high because the government is involved in the healthcare industry, they are high because the tax code favors the consumer to not see the true price of healthcare. The prices are high because the healthy people have decided they do not need to pay for the sick. What’s next we leave our old alongside the road to die like the Native Americans used too because nursing homes cost too much?

Also remember this: At the same time we are getting less healthcare, company’s are having RECORD profits. They are doing this by cutting costs. They are trying to reduce costs further by pushing healthcare onto the government. I’m all for profit but profit at the expense of people’s health strikes me as immoral to a fault. You want cheaper healthcare and your freedom? Then pass a law so that ALL companies trading with us must provide health insurance to their workers. Give our companies tax breaks to provide full coverage to their employees. Educate the poor about nutrition, only allow food stamps for high protein/high nutritional foods. Get government out of healthcare (get rid of Medicare and Medicad). Shut down the VA hospital system and give veterans free healthcare for life by tax credits on their premiums. outsource the government functions to private insurance companies. Require the insurance companies to treat all claims no matter the cost. Give the insurance companies tax credits for care over a certain point. All these can be done with the tax code not with more government employees, more government powers, or more government intrusion.

unseen on September 4, 2007 at 4:11 AM

calbear on September 3, 2007 at 11:42 PM

Yeah the schools are doing such a great job. SAT scores just dropped again. At this rate the kids will know how to (only) make fire in another 15 years.

unseen on September 4, 2007 at 4:18 AM

unseen on September 4, 2007 at 2:09 PM

could also be said about global warming taxes. Look at British taxes for a clue about what is coming.

unseen on September 4, 2007 at 4:27 PM