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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Paying for necessary medical fees has nothing to do with telling people how to live their lives, and there's no reason the two should be linked. The government doesn't tell families who currently participate in SCHIP how to raise their kids.
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Like I said, as long as government doesn't tell parents how much Mcdonald's a kid can eat, how much time the child must be outdoors playing, how often he/she needs to go to the doctor, that the parents cannot smoke around them OUTSIDE, that if the child breaks their arm outside while climbing a tree, the parents aren't charged with neglect or forced to take some form of classes, that the child has to take vitamins, has to eat a certain diet, has to be tested for ADD/ADHD... etc...then I am by all means for it.
The problem that we see is once we give the government a power they absorb rights, rename them privileges and start to dictate what we can do.
I guarantee that their will be a movement in government that will demand better parenting and classes and on and on because the child's healthcare is too expensive and it is because of poor diets and poor parenting.
I am a liberal but I am opposed to more government in my life. Once we indoctrinate our kids to believe that 1) government is there to take care of them = they will always expect it 2) the government will keep increasing their holds on future generations taking more and more rights.... errr privileges.... err bad choices away, until our progeny are no more than workers with no minds and doing the government's bidding without question and because of the fear that government will take away everything.
I'm sorry that doesn't sound like FREEDOM to me.
Call me a reactionary or a pessimist but given government's history, I think I'm being generous with how much time it will take.
I still have yet to see a good decent argument against a sliding scale healthcare system, based on income and ability to pay.
Why is that not discussed? Why is it all or nothing???????