Freedom - and now we see where it has gone. - Granite Grok

Freedom – and now we see where it has gone.

Obamacare -Year of the SnakeA story on when Government KNOWS what is best for you – even if you know it is not: a sad tale of Obamacare:

My older daughter, who is 28, married with 2 children, Her husband is in optometry school and she works three jobs. They have a bunch of loans and I pay their rent. They have refused to take food stamps or anything else from the government.

They went on the O’care website because their private insurance was going to go from $600 to $1000 per month. They were hoping to get a plan that would allow them to keep their pediatrician and her OB-GYN and thought they would qualify for a subsidy that would make it affordable.

Proud people.  Self-reliant people working to make it the old American way: on their own with a bit of help from family and friends and NOT an instant turn to being on the dole.  So what happens?  The Government, with all of its rules and mandates, forces your health insurance to jack up the rate.  And then it forces you to violate who you are trying to be:

Instead, they were directed to Medicaid. None of her doctors take Medicaid. My daughter spoke to a supervisor who kept telling her what she didn’t make enough to qualify for an insurance plan and all that the federal government was doing for them. No matter how many times my daughter said she did not want Medicaid and was willing to pay for private insurance, the supervisor kept telling her all about how much the federal government was doing for her and said

she had to take Medicaid.

Freedom is measured by the choices one can make for themselves.   Those in Government obviously believes that their choices for you, in a one-size-WILL-fit-all, should always trump your’s.  This is the Progressive way – and they still don’t get the irony when they say we are “the Land of the Free”.   Here, Medicaid was not a choice – it was a commandment.  Oh, to be sure, it was couched in such nice terms and it sounds SO wonderful what Government was going to give her – for FREE!  After all, isn’t FREE better than an expensive choice on your own?

Never mind that “they” are absolutely taking from others, without any guilt, to demand that others take it.  Land of the Free – redefined.

And it is becoming clear that little by little, we are not.  Not when “they” pre-decide and make all the major decisions, because, they know our needs, wants, and dreams better than we do.

And that is the worst thing of all.

(H/T: The Corner)

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