If the government "gives" you a right-

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The Folly of Obamacare by Jonah Goldberg on National Review Online

The Folly of Obamacare
It’s a bait and switch.

By Jonah Goldberg

Let us for a moment adopt the proposition that health care is in fact a “right,” as pretty much every liberal politician has told us for at least a generation.

Now let us consider how President Obama’s proposed health-care bill would work. Under his plan, an official body — staffed with government doctors, actuaries, economists, and other experts — will determine which health-care treatments, procedures, and remedies are cost-effective and which are not. Then it will decide which ones will get paid for and which won’t. Would a 70-year-old woman be able to get a hip replacement, or would that not be considered a wise allocation of resources? Would a 50-year-old man not be permitted an expensive test his doctor wants if the rules say the cheaper, less-thorough one is sufficient? The Democrats call this “cost-controls.” But for the patient and the doctor, it’s plain old rationing.

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We live in a society -
"of the Government, by the Government, for the Government".
We are now slaves to A GREEDY government.

 

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All those words to say, "health care isn't a right."

 

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Regardless of what we do about HC, it IS going to be rationed.

It already is rationed

Not well, of course, but that's a different issue, entirely.

So the choice isn't "Will we ration health care".

The choice is "How will we ration health care?"