Posted by
"Mind and Morals" Michael Coyne on Monday, June 15, 2009 11:30:00 AM
“Pay no attention to the Government behind the curtain…”
This has been the essence of the Democratic Party’s stance
on Federally run health care for some time now. And it was also the essence of
the case that President Obama tried to make while visiting our mutual hometown
of Chicago, today.
For starters, thinking Americans already know that Federal
labor law requires employers to offer some sort of healthcare coverage to
full-time employees. So, if you’re working full-time and do not have healthcare
coverage for your family, it’s your own fault for not knowing your rights as a
worker.
This will not, however, stop the march of Big Government.
President Obama promises that he will allow you to keep your private insurance.
Sure. What the Left is failing to tell you is that the Obama Healthcare plan
will be the de facto death of private insurance because employers will buy the
cheapest healthcare plans for their employees. When the Government becomes that
lowest bidder, all full-time employees will be on Government healthcare.
The second point that the Left ignores—and
banks on your ignorance of—is the fact that it is 100% illegal for
a hospital or health care provider to deny care and service to a patient based
on his or her inability to pay. This is how the homeless, the illegal aliens,
and the unemployed have managed to secure healthcare in spite of their lack of
insurance. And make no mistake: the taxpayer foots the bill. To be clear, this
writer has no problem with this law, and I’m willing to call this a responsible
use of taxpayer money. But the left is exploiting the fact that so few members
of the middle class, upper middle class, and upper class know about these laws.
Ta-daa! The left has created an instant sympathy group—the uninsured Americans. As long
as you don’t notice those pesky laws that the Left hopes you don’t know about.
What we’re seeing here is another failure in education.
People need to know about the laws that already exist to protect them. If
ignorance of the law is no excuse for committing a crime, then why is ignorance
an excuse for a voting pattern? People need to wake up and look at the world
around them before subscribing to the dishonest propaganda of the Left. When it
comes to healthcare, America has been covered for some time. The Obama
Healthcare Plan amounts to one thing: a power grab that will topple even more
Constitutional freedoms in the false name of “saving a victim.” But, as usual,
the victim that the Left is claiming to fight for doesn’t really exist.
This whole situation is like that scene from The Wizard of Oz; we have but to peer
around the flashy lights, puffs of smoke, and special mirrors to see what lies
behind the curtain: a Big Government that is already pulling all the strings.