Not unless there's enough life for everyone?

     As ObamaCare regulations, taxes, and unconstitutionalities progressively pile onto what could have been a private medicine market, the single greatest attribute of United States medicine for foreigners is going extinct.  It used to be that men, women and children of some means, all around the world, could fly to American hospitals to be treated for otherwise inaccessible or incurable ailments.  Due to the heavy socialist health care environments of European medicine (the second best to the U.S.) there really was nowhere else individuals could go to have a chance against the killer diseases of Man.

But, Obama is changing all this.  His egalitarian approach to...everything!...will make sure that no American, (and, along with that any European, Australian, Asian, African, Latin American...etc.), will be able to get more than one's "fair share".  In my analysis of his philosophy, I summarize Obama's attitude by the slogan, "Not unless there's enough life for everyone."

Those defenders of ObamaCare have sophisticated arguments that are indeed formidable.  After all, why should John be able to live when James cannot?  It's not fair that John has the money and life if James has neither.  So, John's money and life must be taken by government.  And, though James will soon die, anyway, at least he gets his "fair life share".

Now, this applies in lesser cases of medicine, as well.  For example, why should Page get to see a doctor for a broken arm when Gina got to the hospital first?  Just because Page has more money why should that decide?  Gina's arm has been broken longer.  She has suffered more.  And who is this doctor to try to make more money by seeing Page, anyway?

You may claim that these scenarios can be accommodated and absorbed because they belong to some special kind of realm called "catastrophic health care".  But, what about the common cold?  Joey has been out of school for a week.  His mom applied at the hospital two days in.  Suzy just got it.  Her mom is frantic--claiming that she got it from Joey because Suzy sits right behind him in homeroom.  But, Joey's first.  Just because Ellie went into a coma from whatever it is, how does the state know that Suzy will too?  Should Suzy's mom be able to buy off the medical establishment by mortgaging the house?  It's not fair!

Thus we have ObamaCare and it's philosophy of, "Not unless there's enough life for everyone."

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind