You have made my point. As soon as the government takes over the responsibility for healthcare they will also claim the right to mandate behavior. No smoking, require seat belts, helmets (or ban motorcycles), ban certain foods, require people to lose weight or lose benefits, mandate that companies make their employees exercise. Once you turn your obligations over to another you lose your liberties. If you turn them over to the government it’s done by statute. If you want the state to be your mama, expect to be treated like a child.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
