When a one to one correspondence obtains between the health of a Nation’s citizenry and the Gross Domestic Product, which always exists when the State is paying everyone’s Doctor’s bills, the State suddenly develops an probing interest in making rules that will insure that the medical costs it is on the hook for are kept low. Since he who pays the piper calls the tune what we can expect, if the State succeeds on socializing health care, is a scenario where the State will be micromanaging every detail of our lives since all of our lives can be, in a direct or indirect sense, tied to health considerations. Do you like to snowboard? Well, snowboarding has health risks and therefore the state has an interest in regulating snowboarding. Do your Christian convictions cause stress in your neighbors? Well, stress has health risks and therefore the state has an interest in regulating your Christian convictions. Do you have to much sex resulting in to many children? Well, sex and children result in healthcare costs and therefore the State has an interest in regulating both your sex frequency and the number of children you can have. The possible permutations that will result in a Statist grasp of American freedoms are infinite when you allow the State to socialize health care. If the State socializes health care the citizen will stand in a new relation to the state, and that relation can be fairly described as one where the citizen will live and move and have his being in the State.

The reality described above is why the debate on Barack “Nat Turner” Obama’s health care proposal must shift to a debate on socialism vs. some kind of free market approach. However, in this debate we are already holding the short end of the debate stick since so many who are protesting Nancy Pelosi’s health care proposal are the recipients of Statist graft. As I view the senior citizens protesting what Barney Frank wants to do with the nation’s health care I wonder how many of them are on Medicare or get a check from Social security. In order to debate from the high ground against John Conyer’s health care ruin we must advocate a true solution that calls for the incremental end of Social Security, Public Schools, Medicare, Medicaid, Corporate Welfare, and all other programs that are in clear violation of the 10th amendment of the Constitution. But as Americans aren’t willing to do that because they have already been compromised by embracing varying degrees of socialism to their bosoms the end consequence to this health care debate I fear is the eventual embrace of a greater degree of socialism. Socialized healthcare will pass someday soon because Americans already accept the principle of socialism from which it stems.