Health care bill & the death of freedom
by Brian Schwartz | 4:41 pm, November 8, 2009 | Comments Off
From the Washington Examimer:
That American citizens should be fined or even put in federal prison for refusing to purchase government-approved health insurance is as un-American as any idea we can imagine. But such a mandate is the very heart of the bill written behind closed doors by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her privileged pals. If their bill is approved by the House tomorrow, we will be a big step closer to the day when everybody gets their health care insurance through the government or from an approved insurer offering policies that meet meticulously detailed specifications contained in thousands of pages of federal regulations.
Welcome to America, land of the formerly free, and home of citizens covered by a nationalized health care system crafted by the same government that can’t care for American Indians on their reservations or deliver swine flu shots on time.
Read the whole article: Health care by coercive government.
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