Commentary for the
Mercury: Newsletter


Health Care: Survival at all Cost!
September 1999

Every living creature has a natural instinct of survival. Without this natural instinct all living creatures would quickly disappear from the face of the earth. Yet, it is this very instinct that when left unchecked can cause others to invoke their methods of survival.

When one is ill, they are determined to find out why and then solve the problem that makes them ill. This is our Natural Instinct of Survival. Unfortunately, many of us today will attempt anything in the process of making one's self better. Even if the means to get to the end result of good health hurts others along the way.

Yes, you read that last line correctly. For some, the end result justifies the means in making sure they are healthy.

It is this very line of thinking that has brought about the demand for National Health Care. People do not seem to care whom they hurt along the road to a Government-sponsored Health Care Plan. They are only interested in their own well being.

But how can a National Health Care Plan hurt others? Easily answered: the pocket book! If you take other people's money so you can have good health, are you assisting in another's death? Well, maybe not in such a dramatic fashion, but in reality, yes! Of course, the liberals will say that we must help those in need, by doing this moral thing. But wait, have we not been told over and over again by these same liberals, that we are unable to legislate morality. Health Care is just that, morality legislation. We are demanding that others pay for those that supposedly cannot pay.

Unfortunately, the issue of National Health Care will continue to be a hot topic, for our natural instinct of survival keeps it there. We must survive at all costs, even if that means doing things the lazy way, and compelling others to pay more taxes to make sure we feel the best we can feel. Hopefully Americans will wake up soon and go back to achieving things the hard way: earning them.