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Originally Posted by detbuch
I think its a matter of morals that people have healthcare.
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Are we now to abandon the idea that you can't legislate morality? And if legislating morality is now to be a domain of our Federal Government, whose morality will be the model? Will that change with changing administrations?
The founders understood that individual freedom rests on the notion that the bulk of governmental restriction is against the government not against the people.
My personal view of what Obama meant when he promised to fundamentally change this country is that he would change the constitutional view of what government is not allowed to do, to his (and the left's) view of what the government should do.
And if the government should prescribe so much as to even include how we care for our health
and to decide what is moral, then individual freedom will be a phrase with no substance.
And, anyway, before Obama care, the uninsured, as Scott implied
did get health care. Maybe not in your moral point of view. The "health care" bill was not about providing health care but about how to pay for it. And it will now, against what was promised, be more expensive and more restrictive. And, temporarilly, maybe why you being in the insurance industry are happy with it, insurance companies will make more money. In the long run, they may be driven out of business.