Socialist Feels the Heat at Health Care Town Hall

Robert Broadus

Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) held a town hall meeting yesterday to peddle socialized medicine. But all was not cheers and rose petals at the meeting.

Robert Broadus of Clinton, Maryland wasn’t very enthusiastic about the liberals’ plan to treat him like a serf:

Perhaps the most controversial, came from Robert Broadus of Clinton, Maryland, an audience member who had lost his job and replaced it with one that paid him far less money.

“I decided not to get the health insurance. That’s working out for me because I’m able to save that extra money and give it to my family members and use it on myself. Senator Cardin, I want to know are you going to tell me an individual…that I have to buy health care or else you’re going to fine me $2,500 every year I don’t get it? Our founding fathers assured us we have a Bill of Rights and I want to see you uphold that,” Broadus said in an increasingly emotional voice and to scattered applause.

This man is indignant that some elitist in Washington is going to tell him how he must spend the money that he himself earned.  (“How dare he,”  socialist Ben Cardin must be thinking).

Cardin responded with the patronizing excuse that if the man were injured and unable to pay, the public would end up paying for his health care.

So how is that different than the socialist health care programs like Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and so on that are already in place? Or socialist plans the liberals want to impose on the American people going forward?

Essentially the only difference is that Broadus might be able to pay his own bills under a free market system, and if we moved to return our system to a fully free market model, costs would go down and make people like Broadus even more capable of paying for their own health care.

I know people who don’t have insurance but still pay off their hospital bills in payments.  They are not in a position to afford health care premiums, but limit their use of the health care system and choose to pay their own way instead of sticking someone else with the bill.

I had some rather large medical bills several years ago. The hospital gave me a bunch of forms I could have used to stick it to the taxpayers for my bills, but I threw them in the trash and paid off the hospital in installments.  I’m an American, and Americans don’t force other Americans to pay their way.  They may need to rely on the good will and charity of other Americans once in a while, but they don’t call out the government thugs to take another American’s property by force.

Socialist model only drive up costs because people abuse the system, and ineffective government oversight drives costs through the roof.  There is no incentive anywhere from top to bottom in socialist systems to control costs and fight waste and abuse.

We need more Americans like Robert Broadus of Maryland who recognize what it means to be an American.  We need more Americans like Broadus who understand that they are not wards of the state, not ignorant children who must have their lives run for them, not serfs to be pushed around and dictated to by the powerful elites.

We need more Americans who are willing to assert their God-given freedom and tell the socialist usurpers in Washington where they can stick un-American ideas like socialized health care.

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