IT WOULD STILL BE WRONG

because it will cost us our freedom.

But you still can’t ignore the the Largest Charge Account Invoice in History.

Doc Zero rips open the bill:

Medicare originally cost about $3 billion, when it began in 1965, and was projected to cost about $12 billion by 1990, adjusted for inflation. The actual cost in 1990 was nearly ten times that figure, $107 billion. It was up to $440 billion by 2007. The architects of the program would have been run out of town on a rail, if these future costs had been known to the voters of 1965.

The difference between promised benefits and expected revenues for Social Security and Medicare amounts to about $107 trillion dollars, which Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute points out is double the annual Gross Domestic Product of the entire world.

If you think Iraq was “All About the Oil!”, wait ’til we have to conquer a country every time Cher needs another facelift. Or Chastity needs another operation to get her chastity back.

Once the government takes over health care, it will not be interested in criticism of its performance. The last thing any consumer should ever be willing to surrender is the ability to take his business elsewhere.

Government already limits our ability to take our business elsewhere by forbidding interstate competition–that’s one of the ways we got into this mess.

Once pro-lifers have become trapped in the same inescapable government-run health system as everyone else, their concerns can be safely ignored. What will they do in protest? Threaten to withdraw from the national health care system? If they try it, they’ll be holding their next prayer vigil for the unborn in a cell block. Only a foolish people trust their lives and souls to an entity defined by its ability to punish non-compliance with force.

No insurance company ever put anybody in jail–except for those wild ferrets on Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom. The cagey Marlon Perkins:

“Speaking of angry ferrets, we’ll wait here while Jim tries to get permission from Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden to have those rabid squirrels removed from his scrotum.”

[six months later:] “Well, good news, folks; it looks like Jim has finally gotten permission from the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research to have those squirrels removed from his scrotum. The Bad News: federal Best Practices guidelines insist that a boa constrictor be involved.”

Now back to our regularly-scheduled de-programming:

Among the most dangerous delusions of liberals and moderates is the belief they can unleash a blizzard of taxes and spending without radically altering other aspects of their lives… the belief they can blow the better part of $3 trillion taking over an industry, but everything else will stay exactly the same. … I don’t think enough people appreciate how far we have to fall, from the A+ health care we enjoy today, to the C- that will be good enough for government work.

Read it all–before your eyes go out and we have to invade the diamond mines of Kuala Lumpur to pay for your Lasik surgery.

What’s that–you say there are no gold mines in Kuala Lumpur …only tin mines?

See; the Mandatory Impoverishment has already started!