Alton
2008-03-09 07:04:43
For many reasons, I fear a goverment run health care system. As someone pointed out above, all will be required to pay for bad health decisions of others. This will only provide the goverment with more leverage to dictate by regulation what it deems to be a “healthy lifestyle”, with the corresponding erosion of freedom.
I love to eat fatty foods (yummy fois gras) and enjoy adult beverages and an occasional cigar. However, I will probably never sky dive, mountain climb or operate a motorcycle – but support everyone’s RIGHT to do so.
We have already seen efforts to ban many aspects of my lifestyle on the basis of its alleged costs to society. Universal healthcare will only exacerbate pressure to limit other lifestyle choices.
