America Can Not Afford Free Health Care (Part THREE of THREE)
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The Big
Lie of
Health
Care
Reform
By Robert Gelinas
____March 13th, 2010
American Thinker
AMERICANTHINKER.COM
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____Part THREE of THREE
The real issue is that there are
those who wish to argue that despite
all the adverse (if not catastrophic)
consequences of ObamaCare to the system,
and therefore the basis for a massive
new government entitlement program.
But health care isn’t an
“inalienable right” —
it’s a basic human necessity,
just like food,
clothing,
and shelter.
All of these basic human necessities
are bought and sold every day in the
free market in the context of the
goods and services that they really are.
The simple reality is this:
There are those in our society
who can afford these necessities,
and there are those in our society
who can’t.
For those who can’t afford the
basic human necessity of proper
health care —
just like food,
clothing,
and shelter —
that need becomes the basis
of voluntary charity and aid.
Conversely, the government version
of involuntary charity via taxation
is called “welfare.”
So whether it’s private charity
or a government welfare program
that helps people buy something
they otherwise couldn’t afford
but need,
that’s fine.
Just recognize that that’s the issue —
not an entitled right,
not an access or availability problem,
not a lack of insurance policies.
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Now,
if making health care more affordable
for everyone is really the goal —
to thereby lower the threshold of who
can readily pay for it directly and/or
indirectly via an insurance policy,
and thus reduce the necessity of
charity and/or welfare for those
who need assistance —
then free-market business forces and
scientific and technological advances,
along with increased competition —
not intrusive government forces —
are the answers.
Consider one mathematical fact:
The purchase of 30 million new
insurance policies that cost $5,000
each is only $150 billion,
which is a fraction of the
One can therefore reasonably
conclude that ObamaCare isn’t
really about making health care
more available or affordable to
those who need it and can’t afford it.
It isn’t about lowering insurance
costs or reducing the federal deficit.
What has been proposed achieves
ObamaCare is simply
a leviathan of a lie,
whose only practical impact for
generations to come will be
increased welfare-state dependency
on government,
greater government intrusion and
control over people’s personal lives
and privacy,
reduced availability of health care
providers as more of them are
all of which translates to
higher and higher costs,
which only accelerates the
country’s financial death spiral.
But that’s to be expected:
Most grandiose plans predicated
on lies don’t end well.
Robert Gelinas is a
technology executive at
the publisher of
and the author of
and five other novels.
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