A woman I know who is living in the USA on a student visa, finally managed to get pregnant this year after many years of trying. She was dismayed to discover when she went in for whatever medical preparation is involved that under Obamacare it's not only more complicated but more expensive. I'm surprised that it wasn't free, and so was she.
Everyone has probably heard the adage that "there's no such thing as a free lunch". Most have heard and parrot, particularly when I do something foolish, that "if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is". However, that is precisely the logic at work here- you will get the best medical care possible at absolutely no cost ever! Quite frankly I don't understand how anyone who bought into Obama's lies can consider themselves a rational individual.
Once upon a time, we knew that the snake oil salesmen sold at best a placebo. Sometimes they worked because we wanted them too. Mostly, they were inert and sometimes they were harmful. Usually, those traveling salesmen, promising to cure our biols or form our kids into a boys band, were run out of town on a rail. Now, not only do we elect them to government office, but we give them our money in perpetuity. They don't even have to sell anything. They just have to promise that they'll eventually bring us the magic pill via the Wells Fargo Wagon.
There are no magic pills, easy solutions, or free lunches. Somewhere, somehow, someone pays, and it's probably going to be you. I find it somewhat laughable that people who criticize me for being taken in and chasing bad money with good insist on doing the same thing. The difference is that too often they're doing it with MY money, and so it doesn't cost them much, so they have nothing to lose.
Truth be told, Obama and his closest advisers, even if they believe what they do will work, purposely intend to destroy what is. Capitalism, freedom, property, and free thought are the enemy. They are perfect in their own minds, and they know best. I train hopeful healthcare professionals, but even most of them are humble enough to not try to diagnose me. I am not a medical professional, and so when they ask my advice, I tell them what questions to ask their physicians. I don't have all the answers; I just know where to look.
At some point, it becomes an issue of semantics. Free to whom? We too infrequently bother to ask them what they mean. We just assume, as they hope we will, that they mean the word the same way we do. Rather than inquiring, we just hope they mean what we hope they mean, but they rarely provide details or specifics so that they can be vague. This allows them to take credit for what works and ascribe blame elsewhere for what fails. It's diabolical.
Like the Sophists, these demagogues should be condemned in our day. They try, in their sophistry, to cure people against their will. For them, all truth is relative. They even take money. That's not what Plato described in The Republic. They are not guardians of society. They are guardians of themselves. They cannot care about people they do not know. It's largely imagined, but they covet what you have. As I have previously written, their pride drives them to be concerned, not with how much swag is in their hold, but that you have some in yours. They are not their to give; they come to take. According to the liberals, you will always have too much freedom and too much money until you have none at all of either.
Free healthcare is too good to be true. I suggest you treat it with a skeptical eye. At least ask for details. They like to cast a broad vision for the future without any plan to actualize it. That's an emotional technique, and when you get emotional you almost always pay the price. Mark my words, the promises of the liberal demagogue will cost you more than you could ever gain. The difference is in what we value.
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