Death Panel Dan Doubles Down Doubly

Dan Riehl continues to dig a massive, idiotic hole for himself.

The state in the hands of the statist is most purely utilitarian by definition. It embraces what it believes has a useful function. And the statist's goal is to empower and preserve the state, not any one of its people. That is a myth. That's what makes putting health care into the hands of the state so dangerous. It goes to what Stupak was pointing out when he said the Democrat leadership viewed more abortions as a good thing. It reduces costs for the state.

Health care must remain an individual utility, for the individual to choose when and how it is utilized in their life. Those decisions will only sometimes mirror what the state would decide. That Congress exempted itself from this very act is all the proof one should need to have. As Melissa Clouthier points out, as functionaries of the state, they will preserve themselves and their families at all cost. That will never apply to you and yours. It simply is untrue. Were it so, they'd have no need to exempt themselves. We will end up with a two-tiered system of health care in America. And the majority of the population will never have access to the upper tier reserved expressly for the moneyed and political elites.

Because the system we have now, where insurance companies decide who receives health care strictly on a cost-benefit analysis based on making a profit off health insurance premiums, and care is denied to those who cannot pay for it, is magically completely unlike the hell that Riehl describes where people are seen as purely actuarial numbers, those in most of need of care are rejected because they have pre-existing conditions, and people are denied any more care once they reach a pre-set limit.

We totally do not have a two-tiered system now where the moneyed and elite can afford health care and the rest of us have to pray that bureaucrats decide to pay for coverage, or our loved ones suffer.  My goodness.  How does he get up in the morning without tripping over his own stupid?

I don't say this often about people, but this guy is a complete moron.