John Edwards For Nanny-in-Chief
Yes, I Know Moe Beat Up On This Idea. But Why Should He Have All The Fun?
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care 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."
He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat "the first trace of problem." Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her breast cancer had returned and spread.
Edwards said his mandatory health care 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.
Ah, cradle-to-grave coverage by the Nanny State. No matter how many times the idea gets discredited, someone comes along and proposes it anew.
Let's be clear: Going to the doctor on a regular basis is the smart thing to do, and that is why you should do it. You shouldn't do it because some meddlesome, officious politician tells you that you have to. In fact, when meddlesome, officious politicians come along and give orders the way that John Edwards is doing, it's a sign that you shouldn't vote for them.
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As in, you have the freedom to do whatever they say you have to do.
Frankly, I find it, erm, interesting that the same people who scream noisily and constantly for the (guilt- and consequence-free, of course) freedom to stick their fourth point of contact into whatever they want seem to have a real, basic, fundamental problem with, well, freedom to chose just about anything else.
I wonder what would happen to me if I were to tell Dr. Johnny Brek Girl to kiss my overweight white backside were he to order me to see a doctor vis-a-vis my tare. Heck, I might just volunteer to get hauled-off to Club Fed for just such an experiment. "What are ya in for, fat boy?" "Didn't go to the doc and our Pres 'really cares' - swell guy, he."
Behold, the future of American healthcare. Not very American, say I.
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People, you’re missing the point. Edwards got rich suing doctors. This is merely a way of increasing the number of possible lawsuits that the trial lawyers can file. You got sick even though you got regular checkups – must be the Doc’s fault. Sue him. /sarcasm off