I didn't realize how active this thread was going to be!
And I appreciate everyone who remained civil through the discussion.
I would like to reiterate that I wanted to know which freedoms we've lost since the beginning of the Obama administration (not that I think those freedoms we've lost previous to it aren't any less valid).
So far I've seen some general posts on business regulation and health care reform (and the loss of freedom to choose is counter-balanced by the freedom to not pay higher costs and rates because of someone who chose not to get health insurance - IMHO).
Up until this post I haven't read of any real loss of individual freedoms.
It is unfortunate you see it that way. Freedom by definition is the ability to choose. Taking away a choice is not off set by how government chooses to spend your tax dollars and you are naive to think your taxes will go down as a direct result of people have to purchase health insurance.
You are right though in that you should be free to not have to pay for someone elses medical expenses. Doesn't that pose a contradiction when the consequence of me not paying for health insurance is paying for someone elses medical expenses. Focus on that instead.
One poster asked if I would be okay with signing a waiver statng I am responsible for any health care costs if I choose not to have insurance. I said of course. Apparently he thought I would really balk at paying people for a service. The fact is sticking the tax payer with my medical expenses is something that would never even occur to me as an option. What we all don't want is to be paying other people's health care costs it seems. Except the left seems to have this goofy notion that the best way to do that is to have government make people purchase health insurance so they aren't spending tax money to care for people. Do you not see if you have an extra, unneccessary step there? Why not instead just tell government you don't want them spending your tax dollars on other people's medical expenses, period.?
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