Posted by
Laura L. Hollis, JD on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:42:22 PM
Just because something is good, and necessary does not make it a "right," as physician Anthony Daniels points out
here. He makes the same point I have, in conversations with colleagues and friends: isn't there a right to food? Why doesn't the government own all the farms and grocery stores? (Or is that next on your list, Comrade Obama?)
What Daniels only hints at, I will say explicitly: the more important something is to human life, the more critical it is that the government neither provides nor controls it. For the government is not accountable, and has no impetus or incentive to provide excellent quality, the way a merchant who must ask you for your dollars has to.
The problem in the United States is one of skyrocketing costs. And Obamacare makes no efforts to control these. Obama basically promises to cap what you pay; those are prices, not costs. And as Thomas Sowell is so fond of saying, things cost what they cost. The government cannot make those costs magically disappear. All we are doing is elevating a failed business model to the federal level. A failed business model is doomed to collapse. We saw that with housing. We saw it with the financial sector. We saw it with GM.
When you elevate a failed business model to a higher level of operation, all you are doing is making sure that when it collapses, more is destroyed with it. When the health care system collapses - Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare (if it passes), it will take down the entire United States Government.
If we thought anything was "too big to fail" before, surely we know better now.