Medicaid: Easy Answer

Scott Sexton of the Winston-Salem Journal complains about the burden on county taxpayers. He complains that the county actually has to pay for it's own Medicaid when other states' counties do not.

Now, it would be one thing if he advocated getting the state to pay that burden so that the county wouldn't have to spend so much money, but no -- he'd be more than happy to spend just as much money, just on different things.

There is a very simple, but perhaps painful, solution to Medicare: just stop spending so much money. If you, personally, think that's not fair to people who need the medical care, that's perfectly okay -- YOU get together with your friends, pool your money, and buy all the health care you want (that's what I'd do).

Two facts seem to evade those who support more, more, and more spending on Medicare:

1. It is NOT charitable to give away someone else's money. Charity is when you spend YOUR OWN money, not mine.

2. You cannot have a "right" to someone else's labor. If you honestly believe that people have a right to ANY amount of healthcare, then you believe that you have a right to force other people to work for you.

Posted by: Ogre at 01:08 PM

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