THE GREAT DEBATE CONTINUES
Or what I forgot to include in the first post on this topic.
A longstanding issue that predates the panic by many years is the constant distractions that I must deal with. I will not bore you with them but will share one of the many results; important steps are often missed when attempting to complete any task. In this case, I left out what prompted my earlier posting titled THE GREAT DEBATE.
Back when Bill Clinton was president, he had his wife and future Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lead his admin’s efforts to ram through universal, single payer national health care in the US, dubbed “Hillary Care”. One of the reasons it failed was that it was discover that it would essentially force all citizens to get prior approval from the federal government to travel domestically. You could travel with out “permission” from D.C., but to do so would mean that you would be unable to be seen by a doctor if you fell ill or were injured during your trip. Doctors not being allowed to see any other than their government assigned patients, any potential patient traveling through their area would not be able to be seen by them. This would necessitate a whole bureaucracy to handle pretravel requests for doctors in the areas thrived through. We know how smoothly that would work for the citizens and so did the voters of that era, victory.
Except, the left never accepts defeat. They fall back, regroup and repackage their awful ideas to look appealing and keep at it until they succeed. But what is success for them, in regards to universal health care? It is not to aid you or I in maintaining our health: that is the lie to get us to agree to their policies. Universal health care is nothing more than a vehicle to complete control of the population.
How it works is dirt simple: rights and responsibility are two sides of the same coin. They are inseparable. Leaving out the numerous real world examples of this outside of health care, I’ll just state that whomever has the responsibility over your health care has the right to decide what you must and must not do in order to maintain your health. For more than two decades there have been stories, reports and court cases over people smoking in their places of business including the cab of their tractor trailer and their home offices. All I knew at the time who were aware of these thought them to be absurd, shook their heads and did nothing. Now we have doctors and hospitals refusing to perform life saving surgeries on children because they or their parents have not received the clot shot. The White House has reinstated the requirement for “unvaxxed” visitors to wear masks and maintain social distancing. A young couple in the US recently had their new born State abducted when they brought it in for a vitamin D deficiency, based upon the fact that it was delivered at home. And now, we have this;
“FDA Bans Farmers from Caring for Their Own Animals Without Costly Vet Approval”
They have pretty much made it illegal to do anything with our own health care, the health of our children and now our own livestock with out government license holders involved.
Discussion. What are they possible fallout from this? I have my ideas, what are yours?
My take on it: If you want the gov't to take care of you, then the gov't will take care of you. That doesn't necessarily mean you'll need what the gov't insists that you do, nor that you'll like what the gov't gives you, nor that any of it makes a lick of sense. Expect looooooong waiting times and less than courteous treatment. For genuine emergencies, you'll want some cash.
I'm old enough to remember Hilary Clinton's attempt to solve US health care. Huh. She was then First Lady and avowedly uninterested in baking cookies. That is, by a country mile, the kindest thing I have to say about it.
Hi K.
Kind of reminds me of an oversimplified answer I use to give when asked what is the biggest difference between Chinese and Japanese culture.
My response was that Chinese and American behavior is typically more similar to each other than to Japanese behavior. If there is no law against it, anything goes. In Japan, you first need legal permission to do anything.
It appears the majority of us are being herded into a combination of the Chinese Social Credit system, and with Japanese expectations regarding compliance to authority.
Meh ... or should I say "baaa"?
Perhaps that is exactly what the majority want?
I was never much into the mob rule aspect of democracy, but under this veneer-thin authoritarian illusion of democracy is even more infuriating.
Looking forward to the next beer.
We have LOTS to talk about.
Cheers buddy.