Edwards: You Get No Choice When It Comes To Health Care
Edwards will make you go to the doctor whether you like it or not.
“I’m mandating healthcare for every man woman and child in America and that’s the only way to have real universal healthcare.”
“Evertime you go into contact with the helathcare system or the govenment you will be signed up.”
During a press avail following the event Edwards reiterated his mandate:
“Basically every time they come into contact with either the healthcare system or the government, whether it’s payment of taxes, school, going to the library, whatever it is they will be signed up.”
When asked by a reporter if an individual decided they didn’t want healthcare Edwards quickly responded, “You don’t get that choice.“
I wonder if there will be exceptions for people with religious objections to certain types of medical procedures. Will they be forced to go to the doctor? And how will Edwards enforce this. Will the National Institutes of Health get an enforcement branch? Armed agents to knock on our doors and escort us to our appointments if we decide not to go?
And how does Edwards’ statements on health care square with his rhetoric on abortion? Here’s an answer from Edwards to a question about abortion from the Democrat debate in South Carolina back in April:
Q: What is your view on the decision on partial-birth abortion and most of the public agreeing with the court’s holding?
A: This decision by the Supreme Court is a perfect example of what’s at stake in this election. The kind of people that will be appointed to the US Supreme Court by the next president will control whether a woman’s freedom, freedom to choose, make her own health care decisions will be made by her or will be made by the government or by some men sitting on the US Supreme Court.
So it’s ok for pregnant women to make their own health care decisions, but not anyone else. Is that how it is?
Also, does the government get to dictate to me the type of care I receive? If the government is paying all the doctors and forcing me to go to these doctors, can I choose an alternative treatment for my cancer if I feel it will work better for me? Or will the bureaucrats decide that costs too much?
Put simply, Edwards’ plan is flat-out totalitarianism. But at least he’s being honest about that. The plans offered by Obama and Hillary Clinton lead to totalitarianism as well, they’re just dressed up a little more to make it appear as though they don’t.












