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Live Free or Die
The motto of the state of New Hampshire is taking on a whole new meaning. All the people who champion government intervention in health care and medicine are playing the fool to the false notion that centralized authority is the best way to manage a large and complex industry. Once government seizes power over health care, which they already have to a large degree (and this just so happens to be the main source of most of the ills found in our current health care system), then people will no longer be as free as they were before; and worse yet — many will die who would not have died under our current system.
A Sad Reality
Saying that people will die under government run health care is a statement that many may consider to be extreme or fear based, but I believe that it is the logical opposite of saying that our current private health care system saves lives. Once that system is destroyed then it can no longer save lives and the people whose lives would have been saved will die. But the most fair way to look at this is issue is to ask whose lives will be saved and whose lives will be lost under each system.
In all fairness we will lose lives and save lives under both systems, but the difference will be whose lives are saved and lost and how many. We can only make educated guesses as to what would or could happen if we change our system to what is being proposed in Congress right now, but we can look at some indicators to try and estimate outcomes, but historically outcomes are ALWAYS estimated incorrectly by politicians. This leaves us in a position of great uncertainty, but oddly enough we happen to have quite a few other arguments against socialized medicine...
A Litany of Arguments
Arguing against national health care is better done on the grounds that:
1) It is UNCONSTITUTIONAL! Period!
2) Government never runs anything well.
3) Medicaid, Medicare, the VA, and health care on the reservations are all disasters.
4) We as a nation cannot afford it.
5) If you think you already have to fill out a lot of forms and go through red tape...you ain't seen nothin' yet!
6) Competition always yields better results - national health care eliminates competition.
7) Things are not even that bad right now to justify a complete overhaul/destruction of the current system.
8) A major shift in this large of a piece of the economy will exacerbate the current recession, create more job losses, and further crack the foundations of free market capitalism that has
served to make America such a prosperous nation.
9) Government run health care will create a massive lever by which politicians will seek to win votes and government bureaucrats will use to control and manipulate society.
10) Access to care will be greatly limited for most people.
11) Innovation, new technologies and procedures, better medications, as well as improved care and treatment methods will all be greatly stifled due to lack of incentives and government inefficiencies.
12) Many physicians will stop practicing and the best talent will no longer be attracted to the health care industry creating a shortage of specialists, doctors, nurses, and every other position in the field.
13) Legal abuse of doctors and health-care providers will escalate.
14) Laws and regulations created to solve problems will only worsen them and/or create new ones.
15) Taxes will increase so dramatically as to choke off the most enterprising and wealth/job creating parts of our society.
16) The costs of health care will rise beyond the point of sustainability or price controls will destroy any semblance of timeliness and quality.
17) People will behave even less responsibly regarding their health.
18) Centralized decision making will further worsen the problems faced in local communities.
19) Out of touch politicians will be empowered to make crucial decisions involving the care and treatment of you and your family — we see right now how they are ignoring their constituencies and the best interests of the people - do you really think that will ever change?
20) Our freedom to choose will be severely limited and the rights of the people will be infringed upon by government like never before.
This list was made off the top of my head and is most likely very incomplete, but the fact of the matter is the idea national health care can be defeated on any one of these points — what can be said about the strength of our position when we incorporate ALL of them!
What Are We Going to Do
The hour has come where we need to stand up and be counted. Every possible political tool we have in our free society must be employed to stop this monstrosity from becoming law. The following is a list of things you can do to get your message through:
- Write your representatives - HURRY
- Call them
- Email them
- Message them on Facebook or Twitter
- Go to Washington DC on Thursday
- Support the opposition
- Sponsor a rally
- Peaceful Demonstration
- Write to others and encourage them to engage
- Express your views in opinion columns and letters to the editor
- Make comments on news sites and blogs
- Donate to any kind of organization that can influence others
- Write to any organization that supports the current health-care legislation and express discontent
Power to the People
We are seeing democracy in action and we all need to exercise our rights in this matter. This nation was instituted upon the principles of liberty and freedom, the free exercise of thought and opinion, the belief that all men are created equal and should be able to live their lives how they choose. No man or woman has the right to force others in matters of how they should live their lives and use their freedom. Government health-care will take away the power of the people in a large measure and the state will dictate and mandate by force of fine and imprisonment many aspects of your life. This is something we cannot allow to happen.
To those who disagree and have not given the matter enough thought or who have personal incentive to go along with this plan that will greatly harm the rest of the nation: You are doing the wrong thing! Reconsider your position or you will live to regret it. Or maybe one day when you are old and happen to be one of the people who would have lived under our current system, you won't live to regret it!
"Live Free or Die" is the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, adopted by the state in 1945. It is possibly the best-known of all state mottos, partly because it speaks to an assertive independence historically found in American political philosophy and partly because of its contrast to the milder sentiments found in other state mottos.
The phrase comes from a toast written by General John Stark on July 31, 1809. Poor health forced Stark, New Hampshire's most famous soldier of the American Revolutionary War, to decline an invitation to an anniversary reunion of the Battle of Bennington and to send his toast by letter: "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
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