"Free" healthcare a near certainty

The next big thing that will break the American taxpayer financially is “free” healthcare. I think this going to happen because we are becoming an older and, except for minorities, childless society. Far left loon Michael Moore’s new movie Sicko touts universal health care. Even people who blast the government for its inefficiency in nearly every other endeavor, think Moore has a point when it comes to healthcare.

I had a conversation with a friend who complained about the American healthcare system. It was odd because I happened to know that he and his family were well covered. So I began asking questions. It turns out that he wasn’t worried about himself but rather his aging parents. So I asked this rather well to do guy why he and his siblings didn’t step in and cover the cost of insurance for his parents. Too poor? No. No insurance available? No. Why? Turns out, he just didn’t think he ought to have to. I asked, well if he didn’t think it was his responsibility to care for his parents, how could he possibly think it was mine? His response was that a country like America ought to provide “free” healthcare to seniors.

Hmm, just because you live long enough, healthcare should be “free”? What else? How about a “free” condo in Florida, a new Town Car and “free” early bird specials at the nearest Denny’s? One of the greatest lines ever from a Movie was from Dolly Parton in the movie Straight Talk. Parton is a country gal who lands a New York radio talk show gig as therapist though she has no training as a therapist. She proceeds to dispense common sense country advice to callers to deal with their problems. When a man calls in to complain about having to care for his aged mother, Parton calls him out and says something like, “I don’t know why mamma can take care of six kids, but six kids can’t take care of mamma.”

Well a confiscatory tax code and materialism have made a family with six kids pretty much a thing of the past. So the burden of “taking care of mamma” is falling on fewer and fewer siblings. Those siblings, faced with their own confiscatory taxes and materialism, like my friend, don’t want to "waste" their resources “taking care of mamma”. So, they are quite happy to push those costs off onto their neighbors under the guise of “free” healthcare. There are a growing number people who will fall into this category as our population ages and fewer and fewer children are born. As this demographic shift occurs, it is going to become more and more popular to vote mamma’s healthcare costs off onto the rest of us.

And don’t even get me started on the 12-20 million illegal aliens that the Democrats want to make "insta-citizens". Illegal workers living 15-20 to a single family dwelling who send 95% of everything they make back to Mexico are probably not spending any part of the remaining 5% on healthcare insurance. So the same guys who weep and moan about 40 million uninsured Americans are going to be the same guys who vote to make that number 60 million. When Democrats and Republicrats make all of those illegals legal citizens with the stroke of a pen, those new “insta-citizens” will vote to raid your wallet.