jims musings

The push towards ‘Fix­ing’ health care has noth­ing to do with health care, improv­ing it or even help­ing the poor. There is only one rea­son why lib­eral politi­cians are pur­su­ing this goal: polit­i­cal power.
Think: there is no good rea­son to rush into chang­ing some large frac­tion of the US econ­omy. There is no good rea­son to extend health care cov­er­age to ille­gal aliens while at the same time reduc­ing bor­der patrols. There is no good rea­son impose a new Fed­eral bureau­cracy and threaten jail time for those who do not have health insur­ance.
Surely, if The Plan was so great, there wouldn’t be any need to threaten jail?
The only rea­son to pur­sue expen­sive, poorly-reasoned leg­is­la­tion as con­gress is cur­rently doing is to fur­ther expand the num­ber of vot­ers (we’re not even peo­ple, just ‘vot­ers’) who are depen­dent upon a gov­ern­ment pro­gram, and thus a polit­i­cal phi­los­o­phy.
There are ways to pro­vide pay­ment for health care for the poor with­out cost­ing tril­lions and with­out con­strain­ing eco­nomic free­dom. Amer­ica can­not afford a mis­take of this mag­ni­tude, and cer­tainly not for a “Health Insur­ance Plan For The Re-Election Of Congress”.