The Lone Libertarian

2008 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made a chilling statement yesterday to an Associated Press reporter.

She said she could envision a day when “you have to show proof to your employer that you’re insured as a part of the job interview — like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination,”

Wow. What form of tyranny is this?

Think about that for a second. Showing my proof of insurance to an employer during a job interview? Papers please? Why would my insurance status matter to an employer whether I am using private insurance or state-funded insurance? My personal business is my personal business. This is a dangerous statement from a reckless politician.

Here’s an even better question, why would any American believe that this “universal healthcare” she keeps touting would ever work? Two of the biggest social programs that tax dollars fund, Social Security and Medicare, are in jeopardy. Why start a new social program when you have others that are beginning to fail? Why don’t we instead end these social programs and display that there are free market alternatives that will in the long-run be cheaper for individuals and will give a higher rate of return?

Let’s face it, when government blocks out competition, in the case of Medicare, private insurance for the people that qualify is high because the demand is blacked out by government competition with seemingly unlimited funds. In the case of Social Security, again, government gives a low rate of return (partially because they cannot afford to give more, and also because they don’t have to) because the taxpayer cannot take those funds they pay into the system and allocate it among competitive retirement funds, and be able to leave the accrued funds to family members upon death.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that a mandate requiring every American to purchase health insurance was the only way to achieve universal health care

Strong-arming Americans to participate in government programs just doesn’t sit well with me. I wonder how some of these bureaucrats can sleep at night when they mandate, by using government force and it’s hired guns, citizens to participate in these endeavors and then claim that we are a free nation.

Whatever happened to exploring a free market approach? Healthcare is not a right, just like a 40″ plasma TV isn’t a right. I don’t see it listed in the Constitution, and natural law doesn’t provide for it.

To quote Harry Browne, “Government doesn’t work.” The free market is the only viable long-term solution.