I’ve been saying for several years that the greatest current threat to our civil liberties is nationalized health care. John Edwards was recently kind enough to show how it works:
Edwards backs mandatory preventative care:
It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,” he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. “If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK. …
Edwards said his mandatory health care plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental health care as well as dental and vision coverage for all Americans.
Of course, this talk about preventative care is what also gave us HMOs, brought to us by the same people who are now pushing a single-payer HMO on a national scale.
And mental health care was a formidable weapon against political dissidents in the old Soviet empire.
Let’s have separation of Health Care and State for the very same reason we have separation of Church and State.