Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin:
Floyd Norris, in a column in the New York Times, responds to the high dudgeon of the right wing Supreme Court five about mandatory health insurance with libertarian common sense that Antonin Scalia should love.
It?s really just common sense what Norris proposes: if a person doesn?t want to pay for health insurance, they simply exercise his or her cherished freedom by signing a document that legally says (to paraphrase) ?let me die if I cannot afford to pay for my medical care. I, being of sound body and mind, promise that I will not become a financial burden on the state, charitable hospitals, or federal government.? [...]
And seniors who are opposed to universal ?socialized? care, BuzzFlash at Truthout adds, must also be required to surrender their Medicare cards.
This should please the Supreme Court five since it is totally an issue of personal freedom to choose if one wants to risk dying without insurance coverage. But, of course it won?t, because the Supreme Court five makes decisions as partisan hacks, not out of any consistency in legal precedents or the interpretation of the Constitution. [...]
And by the way, how about Scalia and his comrades among the SCOTUS five giving up their tax-payer funded health insurance, not to mention Dick Cheney, who the citizens of America just blew $500,000 or more on covering the Medicare costs of his heart transplant?
Please read the whole post here.
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