Suck it, hippies and nationalized healthcare nerds.
I’m about to make Whole Foods my exclusive grocery store even though I can’t stand organic foods.
Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That’s because there isn’t any. This “right” has never existed in America
Hells yeah, John. Whole greatness (see how I did that?) here.
Also:
…the only reliable technique humanity has ever discovered for lowering the costs of products or services over time is market competition. That will be true for health care too.
UPDATE: Best comment of the day is from Lakewooder:
This guy’s got a lot of nerve expressing his opinion. What does he know about providing health care benefits to large numbers of people? [oh, I need a do-over]
UPDATE 2: Other best comment of the day from PeterK
but they key is that the politicians and the press are pushing for reforming what 80% of the public is satisfied with to provide coverage for less than 15% of the country. sorry we don’t need to be rushing headlong into overturning an entire industry
I don’t want to get too hopeful about the angry talk and anti-government rhetoric out there. I don’t want to believe that maybe, just maybe, there’s some honest outrage against the overlords from both parties, and that it’s not just about a single issue here or single personality there. I don’t want to get too excited when I hear about politicians fearstricken when they’re reminded by respectable people who do productive things with their lives –”Hey assface, that’s not your job, and come to think of it, neither is a lot of this other stuff you people have been doing for five, 10, hell, 50 years.”