tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-767910517238661076.post6512252532528653688..comments2021-02-15T22:47:23.475-06:00Comments on carl parkerisms: Fear of Government?t.l.h.hellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02633375108151144635noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-767910517238661076.post-61146235934933597642012-04-05T21:05:24.815-05:002012-04-05T21:05:24.815-05:00You never disappoint Mr. Dickson and you are as al...You never disappoint Mr. Dickson and you are as always spot on...no snarky about that!t.l.h.hellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02633375108151144635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-767910517238661076.post-63677243792662496152012-04-05T11:16:35.381-05:002012-04-05T11:16:35.381-05:00Snarky comments? Who, me? :-)
I get very mad at o...Snarky comments? Who, me? :-)<br /><br />I get very mad at our President when he says stupid stuff - like appearing to question the authority of the Supreme Court to strike down a law which it believes to be in conflict with the Constitution. He has now seized upon the Fifth Circuit's order, and his advisors' advice to, as they say in Congress, "revise and extend my remarks," crawfishing to the much more defensible assertion that it would be "unprecedented" for the Supreme Court to find that virtually anything Congress does exceeds its powers under the Commerce Clause.<br /><br />But I suspect that is precisely what the Supreme Court will do. Talk about a "death panel!" The same Court which no doubt finds it acceptable to force school children to have immunizations and to force motorists to buy liability insurance, is likely to find it unconstitutional to require us to have health insurance.<br /><br />If and when this comes to pass, that the mandate is carved out of the Affordable Care Act, it seems to me to beg a simple and perfectly reasonable solution. If we cannot force people to purchase health insurance or to apply for government-financed health care for the indigent, then we ought to also repeal that mandate on doctors and hospitals to provide uncompensated care. <br /><br />This way, if you break your leg and you have failed to purchase insurance or to establish your eligibility for indigent health care, you will either have to give cash up front to the triage nurse at the emergency room, or you will just have to drag your leg around behind you until the pain goes away.<br /><br />The auto liability insurance mandate is predicated in the principle that a driver's license is a privilege, not a right. And perhaps we need to treat health care the same way. Under current law any Tom, Dick or Harry has the legal right to hop into an emergency room on the leg he didn't break, and have the broken one set regardless of whether he has a means of payment. If the Affordable Care Act, or its central component is declared unconstitutional, then maybe we need to stop treating health care as a right, and start treating it as a privilege extended only to those who purchase health insurance, who qualify for government-paid care, or who pay cash-on-the-barrelhead at bust-out- retail price.Don Dicksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04216181226322913663noreply@blogger.com