American Republic Online

John Edwards is revealing is intentions, and confirms what ARO wondered a couple months ago:

 ”I’m mandating healthcare for every man woman and child in America and that’s the only way to have real universal healthcare.”

…When asked by a reporter if an individual decided they didn’t want healthcare Edwards quickly responded, “You don’t get that choice.” 

Of course, he’s right.  How can something be “universal” if people aren’t in it?  So, in order to make it “universal” everyone has to be in it, even if they don’t want to be (as Edwards points out above).

This also reveals his true intentions.  It’s not about providing coverage to those “who can’t afford it.”  It is about forcing the government into our health care, and making people more dependent on government.  I’d prefer not to let the government have final say in what treatment I can and can not have.  But, hey, that’s me, perhaps there really are people who have no problem letting the government make all their decisions for them.  (As long as they agree with those decisions, right?)

I’ve said it before: Why is it that the party that will fight tooth and nail to keep the government “out of their bedroom” fight tooth and nail to let it into their bathroom, and force its way into everyone else’s?