Health care is about individual liberty

The issue of health care, known as Obamacare, has now reached the U.S. Supreme Court. It is believed the end result will be decided by early summer.

In simple terms, I look at the issue this way: The question is not so much health care as it is about individual liberty.

If Obamacare eventually prevails, we, as citizens, must purchase a product or be penalized.

But I seem to recall a quote from Thomas Jefferson about the issue of freedom of the press. “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”

The way I see it, it is the same with each individual’s liberty. It cannot be limited without being lost. That liberty becomes limited if and when we are compelled to purchase health insurance.

So, in my view, the same question for both issues is to be asked when that notion is suggested. Once it starts, when does it stop? What foods to eat? What car to buy? What sort of house to live in? What occupation to embrace? Where does it stop?

As for the argument being made in Obamacare’s favor, “don’t you have to have auto insurance to drive a car?” I don’t seem to recall anywhere where it’s written that all citizens must own a car. That is not only an incorrect argument, it’s bogus.

James P. Murillo

Carol Stream