Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Posted
6:00 PM
by Gerald Klaas
Finally, someone who makes sense when talking about universal health care.
- There are ways to provide universal or near-universal coverage without transferring ownership of health care production to the government. When we wanted no American to go hungry, the government did not take over the entire food production industry; it provided vouchers, food stamps. Why then, when it comes to health coverage, would we think the answer lies in transferring control of all health care production to the government?
- Senator Jim
DeMint , RINEE of South Carolina (Republican In Name and Everything Else), for example, offers The Health Care Freedom Plan,
Gerald Klaas
I'm trying to follow the ideals of Henry David Thoreau, in his essay On Civil Disobedience. Thoreau refused to cooperate with The Machine of oppressive government and encouraged all moral people to do the same. He referred to this "civil disobedience" as creating friction in the machine. Given enough friction for a long enough period of time, the machine will break.
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