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Free Market
Duck
Idaho
Supreme Court enforces socialist health care law…
Taxpayers must cough up $187,000 for illegal immigrant’s heart attack
(June 23, 2008)
Unintended Socialist Consequence # 1001: Yippee, free medical care for
indigent citizens. Well, sort of free. Paid for by the taxpayer. Well,
not just for citizens. All you gotta be is a resident, not a bona fide U.S.
citizen. Well, sort of a resident. All you gotta do is “intend” to stick
around for awhile, even if you are here illegally. Therefore, say the
brilliant scholars on the Idaho Supreme Court whose function is to
interpret, not rewrite, Idaho law, all live bodies that show up to the
Emergency Room at any Idaho county hospital are entitled to the same “free”
socialist health care as all of us regular Idaho citizens.
Case in point: Javier Ortega Sandoval snuck into the United States from
Mexico in 2005, got a job as a landscaper in the Boise area, suffered a
stroke at his illegal job during his illegal status on March 22, 2006, and
was rushed to St. Alphonsus hospital where they saved his life and he hung
out for a two-month R & R. Total cost: $187,000, which he couldn’t pay, so
Idaho taxpayers picked up the bill. Ada County officials protested, saying
whoa Broncos, he’s an illegal immigrant and, therefore, by definition he
doesn’t count as a resident. But the Idaho Supreme Court said, not so fast,
Tonto. Javier’s been in the country for more than 30 days and – although we
can’t read his mind – his “intent” might have been to remain here illegally
and continue to work here illegally and, therefore, since his real or
pretended “intent” of residency trumps his illegal immigration status, he
meets Idaho residency requirements and dum-da-dum, ipso facto, his illegal
existence morphs into a legal existence which means Javier is a legal
socialist health care recipient just like the rest of us chickens, case
closed.
Boise, ID –
Ya-yess, girl friends. Shut up and pour yourself another hot cup of Rocket
Java. As the Idaho Statesman editors noted last week in the 4-1 Supreme
Court ruling for guaranteed health care for illegal immigrant indigents,
“Don’t blame [the] court – indigent issue is a mess.” You got that right.
It’s an expensive mess and it’s about to become a multi-million dollar
bigger mess.
Welcome to Idaho’s socialist health care system based upon the alleged
compassion of robbing Peter to pay for indigent Paul. But is this really
compassion? And is this the proper function of government: to forcibly
extract one individual’s private property and wealth to pay for another
individual’s problems? Have we morphed from an individual private property
rights economy to a “needs-based” Robin Hood economy?
Just like
Britain, Germany, France, and a host of other European nations found out
after they enacted their currently bankrupt socialist health care systems –
if you have to ration health care, you’re bankrupt – Idaho, too, is on the
hook for not only every legal
citizen’s health care costs but also for every
illegal non-citizen’s health care costs if neither can afford
their medical bill. Guess what? It’s the same financial mess for public
education costs. Taxpayers must pay for public education for the children
of illegal immigrants. Same for social security. Taxpayers must pay for
social security benefits for illegal immigrants who have never paid a dime
into the U.S. social security system.
No wonder
we’re going broke. According to the GAO (Government Accounting Office), by
the year 2040, if not sooner, America’s Medicare, Medicaid, and Social
Security systems – never mind our bankrupt public education system, it won’t
exist -- will eat up the entire U.S. GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of Umpteen
trillion hyper-inflated worthless dollars. Hi, kids. How’re you feeling
about that: your entire paycheck ripped-off to pay for Mom and Dad and
Grandma and Grandpa and indigent illegal immigrants? Happy birthday and you
can thank either President Barack Obama (Democratic socialists) or John
McCain (Republican socialists), whoever wins the next Welfare State
election. Either way, you’re gonna pay… and pay… and pay… . Welcome to
America’s Second Big Depression.
The
problem with government health care is that we thought we were being
“compassionate” when we enacted socialist health care laws that mandated
county hospitals must take in indigent sickies. There are two points to
make here: (1) it is not an act of “compassion” when legislators forcibly
take other people’s money, taxpayer money, to pay for a third party’s health
care costs – or any other personal costs. Need, real or imagined, is not a
justification to violate another person’s private property rights. That’s
robbery, not compassion. It is only “compassionate” when a legislator
voluntarily uses his or her own money to pay for somebody else’s medical
costs. And (2) hospitals and doctors – because they are individuals with
private property rights -- should be allowed to choose whether to help pay
for somebody else’s medical costs. Choosing to use your own personal
finances is “compassionate.” Being forced by the state to pay for somebody
else is not “compassionate,” it is a violation of everybody’s private
property rights by legislators who took an oath of office to uphold the U.S.
Constitution and Bill of Rights. The U.S. and Idaho Constitutions are
“prohibiting” documents, not “granting” documents. Which means our founding
documents are prohibitions against interventionism, prohibitions against
violations of individual private property rights. A contradiction of the
U.S. Constitution is the socialist or fascist idea of the granting of
special welfare legislation, individual or corporate welfare, for every real
or imagined catastrophe – and non-catastrophe -- that comes along. Welcome
to the U.S. Congress and President Bush’s extensive – overly extensive – use
of illegal Executive Orders.
The
problem is that most Americans have now accepted the moral – or rather
immoral -- philosophy of a socialist or fascist health care system in which
we have redefined the state’s Robin Hood redistribution of everybody’s
private property as being “compassionate.” But one cannot be
“compassionate” with other people’s money. One can only be compassionate
with one’s own money. By stupidly accepting the immoral premise of
altruistic state collectivism for U.S. citizens, we inadvertently boxed
ourselves into altruistic state collectivism for illegal immigrants. The
solution is not to write more legislation to exclude illegal immigrants.
The solution is to repeal the root problem of an oxymoronic socialist health
care system. Oxymoronic because it is impossible to implement any
“needs-based” system of reciprocal rip-off rights for any service or
commodity, health care or otherwise. Reciprocal rights to receive is a non
sequitur, a logical contradiction of nobody having any rights at all.
Destroy private property rights and you will have destroyed ALL other
individual rights, including social rights AND economic rights. To not
understand this is the root cause of why left Liberal Democrats continually
gravitate toward the economic fairytales of socialism or fascism with the
Republicans philosophically not far behind while pretending they are free
market, limited government constitutionalists. Ha ha. What a joke. There
is no philosophical difference between GOP President George Bush and
Democratic candidates Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton and pseudo-GOP
candidate John McCain.
So now
that Idahoans have erroneously accepted the oxymoronic philosophy of fake
“compassion” in the field of socialized health care, we now have Idaho
Supreme Court Justices interpreting stupid law and coming to even more
stupid and disastrous decisions since they can only interpret, not rewrite,
the stupid laws that the stupid legislators have passed. Idaho taxpayers
will soon be paying millions of dollars for the medical costs of indigent
illegal immigrants.
The
solution to this self-imposed idiocy is to go back to the root of the
problem: socialist health care predicated upon the immoral philosophy of
altruistic state collectivism. All we have to do is repeal the fake
“compassionate” law that forces taxpayers to pay county hospital bills for
indigent ANYBODIES, citizens and non-citizens. Let’s get back to a free
market and private property rights – in all economic areas, not just health
care -- and a good portion of our illegal immigration problems will
automatically solve themselves. The rest will require pro-active monitoring
of our borders and reciprocal free trade agreements (not special government
tariffs, but true laissez-faire, laissez passer freedom of trade).
One last
note for the whining Liberals (and any GOP members who took a wrong left
turn off the political highway): dumping state health care for indigent
citizens as well as for non-citizens is not throwing out the baby with the
bath water, i.e., it is not the dumping of an allegedly wonderful socialist
health care system for Idaho citizens in order to solve the indigent illegal
immigrant health care problem. Socialism or Liberal fascism, for citizens
and non-citizens, still represents a violation of individual private
property rights and forced redistribution of wealth. The ends (a Sugar Plum
Fairy socialist health care system) do not justify the means (state robbery
and redistribution of legitimately earned private property).
If these
conceptual ideas about the free market are still not penetrating your state
collectivist brain, then try to grasp this empirical fact: Americans have
recently donated, voluntarily, over $300 billion annually for the last three
years to help
other individuals throughout the world in need. So don’t give me this crap
about how Americans are not generous or would not voluntarily support their
fellow man in need. Now that’s true compassion: voluntary contributions to
those in need. Those who would use the government to do what people will do
voluntarily usually have an ulterior political motive in mind. And it
rhymes with either the word “power” or “stupidity.” – FM Duck
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