George Will’s latest column is about a last ditch effort in Arizona to stop our long slide toward government-run health care:
On Election Day, Arizonans can give the nation the gift of a good example. They can enact a measure that could shape the health care debate that will arrest or accelerate the nation’s slide into statism. Proposition 101.
He’s talking about ”The Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act,” which would put the following language into Arizona’s Constitution:
No law shall be passed that restricts a person’s freedom of choice of private health care systems or private plans of any type. No law shall interfere with a person’s or entity’s right to pay directly for lawful medical services, nor shall any law impose a penalty or fine, of any type, for choosing to obtain or decline health care coverage or for participation in any particular health care system or plan.
If you think such language is unnecessary, that there is no threat to these freedoms, you need to read Barack Obama’s health care plan. It contains several provisions that would violate the Arizona amendment.
Obama’s plan would make it illegal for a parent to “decline health care coverage” for a child. And, despite the lies he told during the presidential debates, his plan would impose “play or pay” fines on businesses.
The voters of Arizona (and the entire U.S.) need to consider how much power we will give bureaucrats if we allow the government to get any more control over the health system than it already has.
Anyone doubting that state and federal apparatchiks will abuse this power should read about the Obamatons who have been rummaging through Joe the Plumber’s records in Ohio.
If you think such creeps will hesitate to likewise abuse your medical information, you had better wake up and smell the coffee.
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