Edwards backs mandatory preventive care

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care. “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.

How much more totalitarian could he be than THIS!??? Think about it a bit. What if you DON’T go? The Medical Enforcement Police will have to be sent out to drag you into the penal hospital system for examination and treatment?

The attitude of mind that can produce this proposal assumes that we are unable to care for ourselves at all, and that the Big Brother state has to step in to do it for us. Also implicit in this is the assumption that since we are all “human resources” we can be managed like any other economic resource in order to maintain our social utility.

This represents an practical denial of any right to individual free agency…and IMHO this is a form of ultimate evil.

It’s rare that a politician openly rips the lid off of hell and directly offers it to us as a supposed benefit.