Achtung! Der Fuhrer hopeful has spoken (Ok, so I am mixing political metaphors. I think you will see why in a second)
TIPTON, Iowa — Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal healthcare proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care.
”It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,” he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. "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.”
Edwards said his mandatory healthcare plan would cover preventive, chronic and long-term health care. The plan would include mental health care as well as dental and vision coverage for all Americans.
”The whole idea is a continuum of care, basically from birth to death,” he said.
Got that? You will be forced to go to the doctor, the dentist, the eye care provider, the mental health professional, whether you want to or need to, operative phrase being "want to." Whither freedom under Edwards. I have to wonder, how would he force people? By fining them? Or perhaps criminal penalties? Maybe the FHC (Federal Healthcare) Police will come and get you, take you to the doctors? Of course, we will all need planners, or at least learn how to work the calendar on our cell phones, since we will have to make said appointments months in advance, like in all the other countries with socialise healthcare.
Of course, to pay for the $120 billion it will cost, Edwards is going to jack the taxes on people making $200k and more. That should do it! ‘Cause, according to reports, annual cost of health care per person is, on average, $5,313 per person. That means an annual cost overall of $1,593,900,000,000. Where does he get the other $1,591,800,000,000, or, hell, let’s make it easy, $1.59 trillion? Yes, it is less then exact, but, hey, what is a few hundred billion between friends?
Maybe we should stop calling it socialized healthcare, and call it facist healthcare, or Nazi healthcare. Or simply totalitarian healthcare.
As a sidebar, the story also mentions Silky wanting everyone to give up their SUVs, a refrain from a few days ago. What will he do?
"I think all of us have to move, have to make progress,” he said. "I’m not holier-than-thou about this (you are right about that!). . . . I’m like a lot of Americans, I see how serious this issue is and I want to address it myself and I want to help lead the nation in the right direction.”
He said he would not buy another SUV in the future.
But he wants you to give up yours now.
Back to Der Fuhrer’s main point
One of the best things about Democrat pre-primary politics is when they start trying to out-liberal each other.
He’s so warmed up about the generous benefits he’s promising that he doesn’t even hear the repressiveness in his own statements. I’m sure he won’t be able to deliver on these promises. I’m just wondering about a person with so little sensitivity toward personal freedom.
Links via Memeorandum, the story I saw this morning. Maybe I should create a new category, wackjob lunatics, in light of the way liberals are acting lately.
Others: QandO, Hot Air, PoliBlog, Outside The Beltway, Protein Wisdom,
More: Sorry, just had to do the photoshop. Pure evil!
