What do all of you think of a pansy-ass telling you, as free citizens of the United States of America, that you have to go to the doctor under a proposed “health-care” plan? The exact quote:
It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care. If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.
That was John Edwards speaking at an Iowa function. Well, I don’t know about you, but yours truly ain’t playin’ that game. And if any of you try to justify this, take off the conservative/liberatarian hat and put on a liberal/socialist hat, ’cause that’s what you’ve become.
They’re going to have to prescribe less red meat to you. You’re exhibiting too many aggressive and anti-social tendencies. If that doesn’t work you may need a stint in a compassionate state-run asylum.
Forcing Americans to do something (forced healthcare) is a restriction of freedom.
Not allowing Americans to do something (travel to Cuba) is a restriction of freedom.
You can’t have it both ways George.
I am ALWAYS in favor of American freedoms so I am against both of the above restrictions to my freedom as an American.
You can travel all you want: renounce your American citizenship, become a Canadian citizen and then you can travel freely to Cuba. Easy!
I’m not in favor of the current travel restrictions, but not sure if a parallel can be drawn between restricting travel to a foreign and hostile country, and ordering people to go to the doctor every so often. It doesn’t make sense.
George,
You Negative Nellie!!! 😉 What part of “the Party of Choice” do you not understand!?!? You have the choice to do as your told, or suffer the consequences. Who wouldn’t want that??
Robert,
It’s not just that you HAVE to go to the doctor, but you have to go to the doctor THEY tell you to!?!
Theoretically of course, that is also how HMOs are supposed to run, too. I’m not aware of any that *make* their members come in for annual check ups, though. I could be wrong, but I’ve never heard of it. (Of course, they *do* try and psychologically intimidate you into doing it-or at least mine does, and I’m sure it’s not the only one.) As for me….I strenously attempt to avoid having to see a doctor at all costs (major phobia of hypodermic needles here-and no, I am NOT kidding!), so being made to go to the doctor against my will (and if not absolutely necessary) would be something I would object to for both philosophical AND personal reasons!
I belong to an HMO and opt not to use it except for a minimal annual check up where my doctor, for the sake of insurance, has to note my refusal to submit myself to certain tests. He recommends them and I decline. He asks me if this year I won’t change my mind and I tell him no. He pronounces me healty and that’s the end of it. I almost never get sick, have boundless energy and feel good. Barring an accident, I expect to live to a ripe old age as did my forebears who also rarely went to the doctor. Whether or not you visit your doctor is a personal choice. In the United States, individual citizens do not conduct foreign policy; that is the job of our elected officials. If you don’t like that they restrict your travel to a hositle nation, one who is our declared enemy, then vote for someone who wants to change that policy. The fidel loving crowd has been trying for years to end the embargo, but have been unsuccessful because so far, contrary to the left’s hard work and rhetoric, the voting public isn’t buying it.
Anybody who still supports this man after this is completely out of their skull.
I personally support mandatory coverage. Whether you go in for your exams and take advantage of it should be up to the individual. To me, it’s no different than mandating vehicle liability insurance. If you can afford insurance and don’t have it, we all end up picking up the tab.
jsb, only if system is socialized, which in my opinion it should not be. That’s what’s wrong with the system now.
Ziva, I have mixed feelings about the Massachussetts model. My personal feeling is that if we’re going to go towards a universal access program, that’s the least damaging model. I’m afraid it’s inevitable and we’ve got to provide alternatives if we’re truly against socialized medicine. The libertarian in me says NO! But the reality is that this country is moving in that direction. Mandating private coverage may be the best way to prevent true socialized medicine. –s
…and my comments are in NO WAY meant to support Edwards vision.
Well, at least he is concerned about health care in Cuba! I am going to vote for him in the Democrat primaries.
Is this clown still running? Talk about clueless.
Jsb,
But the reality is that this country is moving in that direction. Mandating private coverage may be the best way to prevent true socialized medicine.
I dont know if Im ready to give up on that one just yet. There has to be a sensible solution to the problem without having to go to the extreme.