Healthcare Industry News
Freedom a factor in healthcare wrangle
Saturday, 27, March 2010
The raging debate over Obamacare is not exactly all about health. It’s really about freedom, or lack thereof.It’s simple when you cut through all the overheated rhetoric: The anti-Obama folks believe the president is imposing a massive federal presence that will erode personal freedoms.The pro-Obama crew supports a huge federal apparatus to impose “social justice,” believing that is the government’s moral responsibility.
The personal freedom issue is pretty clear as well. We have less of it today than we did this time last year. In an aggressive power grab, the feds now control the healthcare industry, and the Internal Revenue Service has increased its already enormous power because it will enforce Obamacare mandates.In addition, your private medical records will no longer be private. They will be accessible by federal bureaucrats. If that doesn’t make you queasy, nothing will.
