I have written a lot about government-provided health care as a Trojan Horse for government micro-management of individual behaviors. The logic is that once the government is paying for your health care, your decisions that once only affected yourself now affect public costs. Here is a great example:
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My comment at the Coyote Blog:
In fact, to straitjacket our freedoms, you have the liberal trifecta of Obamacare, climate change controls (possibly cap & trade, EPA, global govt etc), and new intrusive technology. “You can’t just get in the car and drive willy nilly because of climate change,” and by 2015 black boxes will be mandated in cars (where were the Repubs on this vote?!). You can’t just pick up a plate and start eating whatever salty fatty sugary food you want, because this may effects our national medical bill! You can’t just lounge around watching TV, it effects our medical bill! You can’t weigh that much, or that little. Big Brother will be with you all the time. There is value in our freedom, the freedom this country was founded for. End the steady govt takeover of our lives!
“Obama is already setting a new historic course by reorienting the economy from private consumption to public investments…free-market pundits bemoan the evident intention of Obama and team to ‘tell us what kind of car to drive’. Yet that is exactly what they intend to do…and rightly so. Free-market ideology is an anachronism in an era of climate change.” — Jeffey Sachs, Columbia University, Director of The Earth Institute
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