Conan the Totalitarian

Conan the Totalitarian, otherwise known as Arnold Schwarzenegger, the "left-est" rightwing Republican who ever existed, California's governor, seeks universal health care. Look out, Middle Class!



The plan, which Schwarzenegger estimated would cost $12 billion, calls for many employers that do not offer health insurance to contribute to a fund that would help pay for coverage of the working uninsured. It would also require doctors to pay 2 percent and hospitals 4 percent of their revenues to help cover higher reimbursements for those who treat patients enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program.

According to the Herald Tribune, the governor outlined his proposal to an audience of health care experts and reporters via satellite from Los Angeles. He made it clear that a variety of mechanisms would be used to provide all Californians with insurance and that the responsibility of providing it would fall on the government, employers, health care providers and (emphasis added) the uninsured themselves.

"Everyone in California must have health insurance," Schwarzenegger said.

What he and others who propose such haughty socialist plans fail to realize however, is that you cannot mandate any qualitative state that depends upon the products and services of voluntarily cooperative individuals. You can no more legislate away the "problem of health insurance" than you could walk up to a bum on the street and outwardly proclaim that he will be made affluent because it is now the law that he must be.

What's that? Can't afford health insurance? The Governor isn't helping you with the costs; he's attempting to make the problem vanish by making you a criminal instead. Don't put up with it. Sound off!