Originally Posted By: whomod
So G-Man, are you down with Cheneny Care?


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Last month, the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee ran ads in Iowa newspapers advocating for a single-payer health-care bill, highlighting the fact Vice President Dick Cheney has benefited from his government-provided coverage. “If he were anyone else, he’d probably be dead by now” due to his long history of health problems, claimed the ad.


This is a pretty specious argument.

The gist of this argument is that, because the Vice President of the United States gets government-funded health care, every one should.

Using that logic, because the Vice President is paid a salary of over $200,000, every one else should be paid the same.

Using that logic, because the Vice President is gets to reside in government owned housing, we all should.

Using that logic, because the Vice President gets free bodyguards, we all should.

Etc.

As for your jokes about me and seatbelts, bike helmets, etc., I realize that it sounds pretty innoculous to make people do those things. But each time you let the government control what you do with your body on the theory that it's dangerous and they pay for health care, you create a precedent for the next act that the federal government decrees to be "dangerous."

What's not dangerous today, can be considered dangerous someday. Look at the studies about drinking, smoking, fatty foods.

Eventually, what happens when enough "Christian Conservatives" find enough studies that abortions create a health risk? Or homosexual activity? Or promiscuity? If the government pays for our health care why won't they be able to regulate those activities too?

The more aspects of your personal life that you allow government to subdize the more aspects of your personal life that you give it control over.