The following is in response to Lisa Kaplan Howe’s Op-Ed (after the jump) on Obamacare:
Lisa Kaplan Howe informs us that people “were allowed to keep” old insurance policies. But this turns on its head the relationship between a people and their government.
Free people in a free society aren’t allowed to keep things – it is their inherent right to keep what they think is best for themselves. The question should not be what the government allows people to do; it should be what the people allow their government to do.
Should a woman have the right to choose what insurance is right for her, or should government make that choice for her? Obamacare interferes with a woman’s right to choose her insurance; now many women have lost their choice of doctors.
Howe warns us that we “may be paying more than you need to.” Does she not know that the new Obamacare policies have much higher premiums and higher deductibles? She tells us that “assisters won’t keep any of your personal information.” Is she unaware that the assisters (navigators) have not had background checks and that some of them could be felons? Has she not heard of all the security flaws in the website that make it easy for hackers to obtain private information? Obamacare has proven to be a disaster. The solution is more freedom of choice. Let people decide what is best for themselves, not what the government will “allow” them to have.
Let me amplify spec’s main point: It was said that Obamacare would fundamentally transform the relationship from a people that have a Government to a government that has subjects. If we are “The Land of the Free”, why is it that Government, more and more, is making the decisions that we once made for ourselves? Such a government can be considered and become an oppressive or authoritarian one quickly.
And yet, why is it that people like Lisa Kaplan Howe are all to willing to turn over that responsibility (and more) to Government – and in doing so, abdicating all sense of self-responsibility?
