Mark Steyn wrote, April 2009, in Imprimis:
Once you have government health care, it can be used to justify almost any restraint on freedom: After all, if the state has to cure you, it surely has an interest in preventing you needing treatment in the first place.
That's the argument behind, for example, mandatory motorcycle helmets, or the creepy teams of government nutritionists going door to door in Britain and conducting a "health audit" of the contents of your refrigerator...all this for the "free" health care - and in the end you may not get the "free" health care anyway.
Under Britain's National Health Service, for example, smokers in Manchester have been denied treatment for heart disease, and the obese in Suffolk are refused hip and knee replacements.
Patricia Hewitt, the British Health Secretary, says it's appropriate to decline treatment on the basis of "lifestyle choices."
-Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale college. Read the entire article at:
http://www.hillsdale.edu/images/userImages/mvanderwei/Page_4221/ImprimisApril09.pdf
Once you have government health care, it can be used to justify almost any restraint on freedom: After all, if the state has to cure you, it surely has an interest in preventing you needing treatment in the first place.
That's the argument behind, for example, mandatory motorcycle helmets, or the creepy teams of government nutritionists going door to door in Britain and conducting a "health audit" of the contents of your refrigerator...all this for the "free" health care - and in the end you may not get the "free" health care anyway.
Under Britain's National Health Service, for example, smokers in Manchester have been denied treatment for heart disease, and the obese in Suffolk are refused hip and knee replacements.
Patricia Hewitt, the British Health Secretary, says it's appropriate to decline treatment on the basis of "lifestyle choices."
-Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale college. Read the entire article at:
http://www.hillsdale.edu/images/userImages/mvanderwei/Page_4221/ImprimisApril09.pdf
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