Quote:
Originally Posted by rhadin
This is the argument that was raised when Roosevelt introduced Social Security and Kennedy and Johnson introduced Medicare. Yet today there are very few conservatives who are willing to do away with either program or willing to forego the benefits of either program when they become eligible for them.
In fact, as I recall, there was very little conservative opposition to the prescription "enhancements" made to Medicare during the Bush regime and the rallying cry today of the conservatives seems to be "we have to save Medicare."
I also find the conservative arguments about government intrusion into medical decisions that properly belong to the patient or to the patient and the patient's doctor signifcantly weakened, if not spike-driven through the heart until dead, with their support of antiabortion measures. (I am not saying that I either approve or disapprove of abortion; that is not the issue.) Seems as if the conservatives approach health care with the attitude that government doesn't know what is good for the people except when I say it knows what is good for the people.
Either government instrusion into our medical lives is an evil to be avoided or it is not; it can't be an evil decision maker when it wants to give health care to people but a wise decision maker when it wants to take away health care from the people.
Conservatives seem to speak with forked tongue when it comes to government instrusion into our lives.
|
That's palming the card, Rhaudin. You can't say that the anti-abortion measure is a intrusion unless you can define all the parties to the procedure...