Brian Miller on The Unkillable Heath Care Boondoggle
March 6th, 2010 at 12:08 pm by CrankyBuffet friend and candidate for U.S. Congress, Brian Miller publishes this piece at Townhall.com.
Everyone in this country wants better and more affordable health care made available to a larger number of people. Those in this debate are not arguing about whether more people should be insured, the debate is about how to increase coverage for more people. The Democrats make it seem like our choice is between the current, albeit imperfect system, and radical reform. This is not true. As we saw in the last election, voting for change doesn’t necessarily get you the kind of change you want. Sometimes a change can be a change for the worse.
My beef with the whole thing is that it is LBJ and FDR social engineering at it’s worst. This here isn’t hyperbole, just try to enjoy a day in Bloomberg’s New York City.
Mandating universal health coverage and making the government the ultimate provider of health insurance takes our private choices about lifestyle, health, and medicine and turns them into public, social choices. Whether you eat donuts or hamburgers or get a check-up so many times a year is no longer a choice about your life, but rather a public, political choice about how politicians will control the distribution of resources in society. Since we’ll all be tied together through a social health care system, you will no longer make private decisions about your lifestyle. This is a scary prospect. We don’t want to live in a society where a National Health Director can decide that it is verboten to eat Krispy Kreme donuts because those who do have become a social liability.
See also, soda machines on high school campuses.
Brian is truly conservative and importantly, a military man with no political connections. Exactly what we need.
He running for Arizona’s 8th congressional district and is the founder The Freshman 50, a pre-Tea Party political action committee dedicated to fielding conservative candidates in 2010.
Please support his candidacy and get involved. Here’s why:
This is where you come in. Your support is an investment in proper government. And if that’s not reason enough, consider how much you currently pay in taxes – income tax, capital gains tax, gas tax, tobacco tax, death tax … and the list goes on. Then picture how pleased politicians are when they vote for a thousand-page bill, which reassigns your money to a thousand pet projects for the sole purpose of getting re-elected. Those are tax dollars taken from more than one third – for some, more than one half – of your time and your labor.
March 6th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
To borrow an oft’ uttered phrase “I like the cut of his jib”. Just need 434 more like him.