Healthcare – Who should make the tradeoff? Consider Obama’s new “Joe The Plumber Moment”!

I previously posted about whether or not  Healthcare is a right – again, the money clause was:

Simply defined, a right is something that an individual can exercise (as a sovereign individual) without asking anyone’s permission. It also carries the complementary notion that in exercising that right an individual cannot obligate anyone else to participate because to obligate others to act violates their own freedom of action (summarily eliminating their freedom to refuse to act, for instance).

Here’s another way to look at it:

Life is trade offs. The big question is who should decide? As you read the Constitution does the federal government have the right to make all decisions regarding what medicine you can use, particularly in a life-threatening situation? Putting aside the question of Constitutionality, *should* the federal government have that right? Or do you agree that most decisions should be left to the states and the people?

- NH Resident, Spec Bowers

Indeed!  President Obama is making all kinds of proclamations, along with his Democrat flunkies, as though it is a done deal that he has the right and the authority to use the power of Government to force a free people into situations in which they will have no choices.  Mark my words, once Government uses the fiscal power of our own taxes, the Government Option / Public Option / Public Co-op or any other term will end up being dependent on our taxes and we will be dependent on Government for any of our healthcare…

Which is exactly what Obama wants.

If you remember, his "Joe the Plumber" moment was when candidate Obama went up to Joe and started a conversation and told Joe that he wanted to "Spread the wealth" and was annoyed at Joe’s response.  He repeated that performance last night – a TRUE indication of Progressive Elitism – "we will determine what you can do, but we will do different."  From Hot Air, we get the conversation from ABC’s (All Barack Channel) Obama health Infomercial: – the Joe the Plumber  moment!

President Obama struggled to explain today whether his health care reform proposals would force normal Americans to make sacrifices that wealthier, more powerful people — like the president himself — wouldn’t face.

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Dr. Orrin Devinsky, a neurologist and researcher at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that elites often propose health care solutions that limit options for the general public, secure in the knowledge that if they or their loves ones get sick, they will be able to afford the best care available, even if it’s not provided by insurance.

Devinsky asked the president pointedly if he would be willing to promise that he wouldn’t seek such extraordinary help for his wife or daughters if they became sick and the public plan he’s proposing limited the tests or treatment they can get.

The president refused to make such a pledge, though he allowed that if “it’s my family member, if it’s my wife, if it’s my children, if it’s my grandmother, I always want them to get the very best care.["]

And what person WOULDN’T want the best for his or her family!  Parse the words – he got trapped by his own policy:

He has just admitted his plan is not one he would want for himself or his family.

Do you need any more information than that?  If the President, willing to spend Trillions of dollars for this boon-doggle, is not willing to place his family on this plan, why should you and I?

Congress will be exempt from this.  So will unions.  How come Obama wants to shackle us with this?

GO AHEAD – call your Congress Critters and see what their answer is to this:

Senator/Congressman – will you move your family to Obamacare?

It is not a Rocket Scientist question – it is either yes or no.  After all, by pitching Government against the private market, we all will end up on it, as there is NO way that the private market can compete against the "Public Option"; it can make its plan cheaper based on OUR tax money.

If they say no, remember to say no to them in November if they vote for this bill.  After all, if it is not good enough for them, why is it good enough for you?