Raise your hand if you’ve seen this as the Facebook status of at least one person you know:

No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day.

The implication, of course, is that you want people to die or go broke if you don’t support liberal healthcare “reform.”

To those who have blithely dropped this glib little statement, which does a great job of obscuring the fact that the proposed “reforms” would simply sink health care into a worse state of slavery than it is in already, into their Facebook pages, I would simply say: Great. If you feel sorry for those who can’t afford health care, get thee to a private charity and donate as much as you non-sacrificially can. Go out and knock on doors and persuade as many of your friends and family as you can to donate their money as well. Just don’t use government force to make those of us who have higher values than other people’s health care pay for it.

There is no right to health care. Creating a government entitlement to one will jack up demand while stifling supply (shrugging doctors, anyone?) — so, practically, it will not do what liberals want it to do (that is, give health care to everyone), and, worse, it will be a moral sin because the rights of healthcare providers will be violated to create that entitlement.

No one should live as a slave because others can’t or won’t pay for their own care, and no one should go broke paying for other people’s care!

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