While reading an article entitled Universal Health Care Isn’t Worth Our Freedom I was struck by these closing remarks of the article which help frame the concept of Freedom in the much larger context where it rightly belongs:
“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.” – Henry David Thoreau
I greatly admire Thoreau, and I have a hard time believe he would side against a single-payer health care system. I think he would be appalled by the fact that so many millions of poor Americans are uninsured – even though the country is the richest in the world. Sure, he was all about personal freedom, but that’s all irrelevant if you don’t have the freedom to survive.
Comment by Clint — July 16, 2009 @ 4:05 pm |