Government Healthcare: Means to an End

One of the items that has been on the liberal agenda for decades is healthcare. For liberals, healthcare is a great issue because it plays to their strengths, and in the long run it will allow them to gain even more control over individuals lives', all the while claiming to do so in our best interest. In the end, liberals think they are better at running our lives than we are - they want to control our lives to save us from ourselves. Conservatives cannot allow the government to usurp more power over healthcare because the consequences will be devastating to our individual liberties.

Healthcare is a winner for liberals because they love to use identity politics (i.e. sob stories) and always claim to be looking out for the common man. Telling stories that glorify the universal coverage acheived in Canada and Britain and contrasting those stories with profiles of Americans who have suffered because of lack of health coverage is a favorite liberal pastime. Ensuring that all Americans have healthcare coverage will protect the common man, nevermind that the coverage will provide for slow, rationed and poor medical care.

Government healthcare is the ultimate goal for liberals because once they acheive their goal, they will have the license to control any aspect of our lives. Sin taxes can be applied to unhealthy foods like soda, bacon and cheese, all for the purpose of discouraging people from eating those foods. There are already sin taxes on tobacco and alcohol products to help protect us from ourselves. Not long after, the government will attempt to restrict us from taking part in activities that may subject us to injuries. For example, some government healthcare bureaucrat may call and tell you that your son cannot play football because he is too small and is thus more likely to be injured.

That sounds radical, of course, but the government will tell us that these measures are necessary to cut healthcare costs. If only people would eat healthy food and not participate in rough activities, fewer people would require expensive medical treatment and costs would go down.

Bottom line, government healthcare will provide liberals with the dream excuse to exert further control on our lives - to save us money! If only we allow the government to save us from injuring ourselves, we could pay fewer taxes. We cannot let the liberals use our compassion for others against us, because that is what they will attempt to do. We cannot give in to the sob stories that liberals present because the end result will be lower quality care for everyone and and increased government presence in our lives. Healthcare is a dream issue for the liberals, we have to ensure that their dream issue becomes a political nightmare.