From a town hall meeting in Maryland
“I decided not to get the health insurance. That’s working out for me because I’m able to save that extra money and give it to my family members and use it on myself. Senator Cardin, I want to know are you going to tell me an individual…that I have to buy health care or else you’re going to fine me $2,500 every year I don’t get it? Our founding fathers assured us we have a Bill of Rights and I want to see you uphold that,” Broadus said in an increasingly emotional voice and to scattered applause.
People are finally starting to understand that if this the government succeeds in socializing health care then they are going to lose some very basic freedoms, like being able to decide what to spend their own money on.
Another basic right we are going to lose? How about the right to live for as long as we can fight tooth and nail for? Section 1233 of HR 3200 (AKA the House Democrat’s Health Care Bill) goes as far as to require doctors and patients to talk every 5 years about the best ways to spend their remaining years (hospices, living wills, etc). Why do we want a Government Bureaucracy involved in that? Are we going to call it the Ministry of Life?
People are starting to get it, people like Mr Broadus who has made a choice to not have health care insurance but has been told by the government ‘we know better than you, trust us’.
No thank you, I’ll trust myself.
