Health care well down a fatal path

I recently read a book with an interesting title: “How Do You Kill 11 Million People?” by Andy Andrews. It was about the Holocaust. And that started me thinking about the new health care law.

As I see it, here are some fundamental lessons: 1) The government doesn’t care about your health. What they passed has been tried before with well documented dismal results. If they cared, they would have gone in a different direction (allow you to buy a policy across state lines to benefit from strong market competition and work on tort reform).

It’s not about our health but rather about power and control over U.S. citizens. However, they have promised you can keep your current insurance, that costs will go down, that there would be no rationing or ‘death panels’ and your privacy will be protected.

Next lesson: 2) Just as people with connections to Illinois politicians could get their kids into U of I even though they did not qualify, wait until the politically connected need a life saving surgery or transplant. A political contribution under the table could move them to the front of the inevitable waiting line. It will happen.

Lesson 3: When has the government ever run anything near as well as the private sector? As government health care takes on monopoly power and the IRS becomes their enforcement tool and they require access to your checking account, then you will have the “answer” to the question posed in the book title noted above: “How do you kill 11 million people?” Lie to them.

The book notes: what we need to understand is how eleven million people allowed themselves to be killed. It didn’t happen overnight to them. Nor will it happen that way to us. But we are now on the train.

Larry Grogan

Glendale Heights