Right, What Right?

The other day I was having trouble writing an article (lately this rarely happens), and I determined that it must be that I had run out of free speech. So, I went to the store and asked the clerk which aisle was the free speech stocked. He gave me this very puzzled look. Apparently, free speech, a right, is something that can’t be sold at any price. Conversely, a commodity that has a cost to produce cannot be sold for “free.”



So, if healthcare were a right, then doctors, nurses, healthcare providers and innovators would be slaves under ObamaCare. Their master would be, of course, the single decider, the government, who as the sole payer would determine exactly what they would get for their services. And if they don’t like those measly Medicare reimbursements, well they could just quit, and some would.



But, many others would steer away from the healthcare field, and that would decrease the supply of needed personnel. As such a shortage of doctors would be created like in England, Canada and New Zealand. England, for example, has been importing doctors from India and Pakistan. They come because it’s still better than in their native countries.



But, that’s changing as India, moving away from socialism, reaches a higher standard of living. So, fewer doctors will emigrate from there. Canada has such a shortage of doctors that some use a lottery to choose their patients. Lose that lottery and a patient could lose their life if they need medical treatment. And, there are more doctors (as well as MRI machines) in Orange County, CA than all of Canada.



But, ObamaCare Obamatons (individuals who support his plan regardless of whether it’ll work), believe that healthcare is a right like abortion and privacy. Well, in that case shouldn’t food be a right? Most people can live longer without healthcare than without food.



So, I’ll take this pledge. I’ll give up healthcare for 60 days, if Obamatons will give up food for 60 days. Let’s see who lasts longer. Food is much more important than healthcare. Why doesn’t Obama first nationalize the food industry? If everything a person needs is a right, then it would be moral to enter a farmer’s field and take his produce without compensating him.



After all, humans have to eat. It’s at this point where I wished that I had a liberal neighbor with a vegetable garden. After arguing with me that healthcare was a right, I would walk over to his garden and just start picking. When he complained about what I was doing, I’d just explain that I was just exercising my right to eat.



It wouldn’t matter that he has done all the work of planting, weeding and cultivating. His effort should not impede nor have any bearing on my “right.” And if everyone in my neighborhood started raiding his garden, he’d either stop planting altogether or switch to growing flowers. Then, the question would be. “Do people have a right to pretty bouquets?”



But, a farmer trying to make a living might mind a little taking of his cash crop, and if it became prolific enough, he would eventually be forced out of business. This is the reason why socialism always amounts to less and never more of a commodity deemed a “right” for the vast majority of subjected citizens.



In the Soviet Union, tens of millions of people died of starvation after the communists collectivized their agricultural system. Yes, they fixed the exploitation of the wealthy landowners, but to tell the truth I’d rather eat and be taken advantage of. Under communism food was supposed to be practically free, and it was. There just was never enough to go around.



It is interesting how liberals consider things that have a cost to produce a right, but on the other hand, want to place a cost on something that should be free: like exhaling air. Well, government was always looking for a way to tax air. Here’s the next best thing, taxing each breathe out. That’s essentially what “Cap and Trade” would accomplish. It’ll place a price on producing CO2 which is nothing more than a by-product of living.



Now to make nationalized healthcare otherwise known as ObamaCare distasteful even to liberals. Imagine ObamaCare as a “single decider” system where the decider will not be the Mensch in the mirror or even his doctor. Instead, it could be someone like George “Dubya” Bush, or worse yet, Darth Vader’s brother, Dick Cheney. Liberals, do you want either of them deciding your healthcare? Well, neither do I.



Finally, if Obama does succeed, the inalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness will eventually be replaced with iffy healthcare, a spreading the wealth nightmare and a civilian national defense force scare.