Run for your life

Shakespeare penned wise words about man’s dreams always exceeding his grasp. This observation appropriately relates to the dream of universal health care. Health care foremost should be a personal endeavor, but a liberal ( i.e. progressive, socialist, Utopian or Obama supporter) envisions a system that helps everyone regardless of individual input. When a calamity occurs, whether unforeseen or predictable, common sense should prevail. A strained muscle in my leg has resulted from pushing on a decayed stump to dislodge it from the turf - a action I foreswore the last time it was attempted. Yet a government bailout is not necessary to tide me over for a few days of recuperation. On the other hand, could my clean living and God-fearing neighbor have prevented her diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and the conditions which now necessitate special medical care? So far, her family has been the source of assistance, but it’s obvious that some type of external agent might be needed through her personal insurance, something she never has been lacking. Common sense, however, does not allow for me to pay her medical bills. Obama care aims to make the individual who has accumulated wealth and savings and anticipated the future’s uncertainties, also his and her brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. I remember the author Henry David Thoreau’s sentiments about charity leaving home. "If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life." My guaranteed freedoms to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are at risk when government, ‘chooses’ to make decisions for me.