Posted on 11/29/2010 1:21:05 PM PST by guyshomenet
Repeat a lie often enough and people start to believe it, especially if the government applies your money to feed the effluvium factory.
An ugly example escaped last week when the statistical masochists at the McKinsey Quarterly surveyed people who didn’t pay their medical bills. Most were broke. Others claim to have not received their statements. A few simply forgot.
An unintelligent eight percent refused because of their brainless belief that healthcare was a “right” for which they were not obligated to pay.
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Since all healthcare requires business to manufacture goods (bandages, splits, really good drugs) and people (skilled surgeons and cute nurses), none of it is cost free, and thus those eight percent who irrationally perceive healthcare as a right are actively engaged in theft, both financial and intellectual.
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If a mugger holds a gun to your head at the ATM and gives your money to his crack addict girlfriend, it is called theft. Yet when Congress holds the IRS to your head to give your money to their crack addict voters, it is also theft, but called “welfare.”
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But I fuss too much for the original problem – people declining to pay their doctors because of a dopey definition of “rights” – is easily and morally solved ...
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They should have talked to people in a particular midwestern blue state that has a law making it illegal for medical providers to turn accounts over to collection agencies. There were lots of deadbeat types living there who could not name the Governor nor tell you what color the state flag was, but they knew this law word-for-word verbatim.
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