The health-care 'fatal conceit'

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The health-care 'fatal conceit'
by Star Parker

Nobel prize-winning economist F.A.Hayek called socialism "the fatal conceit."

Why conceit? Because socialism's basic premise, according to Hayek, is that "man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes."

Why fatal? Because, like all falsehoods and misconceptions, it leads to failure, and sometimes disaster.

Although the socialist label is being thrown around a lot now, we must recognize this isn't new. This conceit has been inflating in American hearts and minds for years, with the inexorable growth of government and the ongoing change in American attitudes about what government is about.

If there is anything new today, it's the extent to which we're taking this.

The Declaration of Independence, signed by our founders, states that man has "rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and that men form government to "secure these rights." According to Jefferson's words, the purpose of the government is to protect me.

Now Congress is moving health-care legislation in which the role of government will evolve to defining what health insurance is, forcing me to buy a policy that covers what government dictates, tracking my behavior through the IRS to see if I have complied, fining me if I haven't, and sending me to jail if I refuse to do it.

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[Diane Amberg]

Now that the Nobel prizes have been "disgraced" that might not be something to brag about,huh.

[Sarah]

The Federal governments job was never to provide health insurance or to police it and it wasn't to set up to run education either.  The Federal governments original job was to protect us from foreign threats and to run foreign trade.