So why hasn't this nation progressed to universal health care? America is the only advanced country whose founding principles were based on individual freedom and popular sovereignty. The concept that government should subordinate to the people is the core principle stated by our founding fathers in the Constitution. We the people prefer "self rule" and "personal freedom". We believe that ownership of one's body is a matter between the individual and God, with no intermediation by government. This is the reason that debate on universal health care never ends.
So the question of "who owns your body" is simply answered. YOU own your body, not the government. Yet the current assertions being made by the Obama administration and Congress is that they should have authority over the maintenance of our bodies, and in order to do that, they must have the power to approve or withhold care.
If the government owns our bodies then we have opted for "veterinary" medicine, for we will be accepting the moral status of a domestic animal. If you own your body then you must make mortal decisions for yourself, and pay for the care that you want with money that you have reason to see as your own.
The system now congealing in Congress for health care is not guided by the principle of individual freedom and government subservience. Instead they promote government control over our personal health care, access to the most intimate personal information, direct interaction with bank accounts, and various schemes that would be managed by impenetrable, impersonal, and unaccountable bureaucracies.
Do we want to place such profound power in the hands of anyone, much less a government of power hungry, elitist bureaucrats? Our 18th century forefathers saw that liberty was something exceptional about this country. We must keep it that way, and preserve our right to control our own bodies!
(Thoughts taken from an article by William Anderson in The Weekly Standard)
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