When government controls health care, it controls you
June 26th, 2008 | by Brian T. Schwartz |Richard Ralston, director of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, makes this point in a recent article. An exerpt:
Would a complete government monopoly in medicine create a system in which politicians care primarily about you? Or about their spoils system? Would your disease be politically correct and place you first in the line for rationed medical care? Or last? Or would newly powerful national medical unions always be first in line? As in Great Britain, would you be denied treatment for some conditions because you smoke, are too old [example, example] or too fat? We had better think that through, because once the government has taken from “the mouths of labor the bread it has earned” to pay for such a system, it won’t care.
Case in point, in addition to to the links above:
- In April, the Telegraph reported that “Doctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who are too old or who lead unhealthy lives.”
- From the New York Times earlier this month: “Under a national law that came into effect two months ago, companies and local governments must now measure the waistlines of Japanese people between the ages of 40 and 74 as part of their annual checkups.”
…”Those exceeding government limits … steered toward further re-education.”
(Via FIRM)
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