In particular as I was reading the news I saw that the current healthcare reform plans, which are designed to implement Universal Healthcare in the US, would institute compulsory health insurance coverage. The idea behind this is that by forcing the tens of millions of people that aren't insured, whether on purpose or because they aren't offered a plan by their employer, to become insured will reduce the premiums everyone pays.
This sounds great, if you ignore that one, you are forcing someone to do expend resources so that others can have an easier life and two, this will pad the pockets of all the hospitals, insurers, and pharmaceutical companies invested in the system. Under the principles this country was founded with, a system of government was created that does not have the right to do precisely what they are now trying to do. The correct solution is to stop all forms of government welfare and allow people to take care of their own affairs.
Everyone has the right to seek, and receive medical treatment, as long as they can afford it, they do not have the right to get treatment for free, or to receive assistance from a third party unless it is willingly given. Our rights are measured by ability to achieve through our own merits and whether we impose one others in our actions. In all cases we should be judge our actions off of those criteria on how ethical our actions are. In the case of Universal Healthcare, and compulsory health insurance those criteria are not only not met but completely ignored.
While it is admirable and worthy to work to offer relief to the poor and under privileged we cannot as a society tolerate the Robin Hood system as an acceptable way of relieving those conditions. Additionally we should consider that many of those conditions exist because of these artificial systems created to treat the situation. There will always be individuals that naturally excel above all others and we should strive to not tear them down for their success while safeguarding against abusive public and private behavior that unfairly allows the unscrupulous to succeed.
I understand the trap that most people get pulled into. Trapped into employing sympathy and pity towards groups that are artificially deficient to the majority. Those that are naturally deficient often don't even deserve empathy for their situation.
That is all I have to say for now.
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