Edwards’ Plan Forces Doctor Visits
by Big Dog on Sep 3, 2007 at 14:28 Uncategorized
John Edwards has vowed to give every American health care. I am not sure if he means that the government will provide health care for everyone or if he means that everyone who has it offered will be required to get it and the government (read taxpayers) will cover everyone else. In any event, Edwards is clear about one thing, you will not have control of your health care decisions. John Edwards’ plan will require everyone to have regular doctor visits. Once again big brother will decide for you how to best handle issues in your life.
“It requires that everybody be covered. It requires that everybody get preventive care,” he told a crowd sitting in lawn chairs in front of the Cedar County Courthouse. “If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.”
He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat “the first trace of problem.” Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, announced earlier this year that her breast cancer had returned and spread. Yahoo News
The decision to visit a doctor is and should be a personal one and not one mandated or dictated by the government. While I agree that preventive care is a great idea and that people should get regular check-ups, I am adamantly opposed to the government forcing me or anyone else to get those check-ups. I will agree that if the government provides the health care coverage then it should have the right to require certain check-ups but for those of us who pay quite a bit of money in premiums, we should be able to decide the issue on our own. We were already responsible enough to pay for health care, we are certainly capable of deciding if and when we should go to the doctor.
Edwards cites the mammogram issue and the piece discusses his wife, who incidentally is dying of cancer despite a great health care plan. The fact of the matter is people get sick and people die and while preventive medicine will catch and help cure some diseases, people are still going to eventually die. Life is a sexually transmitted terminal condition and the only certainty is that one day we shall all die. We certainly do not need a 120 billion dollar a year entitlement plan to give incentive to businesses to stop providing coverage and have us all sign on to the government plan. How will Edwards’ ambulance chasing buddies ever make money if the government runs health care?
If I ever go on government provided health care (and not Medicare because I PAY for that) then they can tell me when to see a doctor. As long as I foot the bill I will decide that for myself. John Edwards can worry about his own family and let me take care of mine.
I guess after this Edwards will require all of us to have a lawyer…
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Excellent post! Yes we will be required to have insurance and a lawyer. We will be required to have procedures, like it or not, and what next???
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Hold on a second, what if this infringes upon someone’s religious beliefs? I hate to bring this whole Constitution thing up with the “coiffed candidate” but I see some real big issues arising. We cannot force Christian Scientists (or anyone else for that matter) to give their children life-saving procedures — even administering simple antibiotics. There have been several cases (most of which were ruled in favor of the parent(s)) in which minors have died because of lack of medical treatment where the families were part of a religion that does not believe in anything beyond faith healing. If God means you to get well, you will. Otherwise, you are going to go to God as he intends.
How does this stand in this “man’s” plan? (Sorry but I think that is kind of ironic – he probably would have defended the parents and sued the government for interfering with their First Amendment Rights.)
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