Health Care Suicide Pact Legislation Passes - An "I Told You So"

[Updated 2/23/2010]

From a recent story  concerning the recently passage of the Health Care Suicide Pact Legislation

".......By then, most Americans will for the first time be required to carry health insurance — either through an employer, through a government program or by buying it for themselves. Those who refuse will face penalties from the IRS. ..."

Yes - And somewhere in these files at the Seneca Times there are posts  asking and answering the rhetorical questions about who really stands to benefit from these changes where everybody is required to buy something. 

I hope some of you out there took my advice and bought stock in the boxcar manufacturing companies. Oops, my bad, I meant the health insurance companies for THAT is who stands to make the money. Well, them and the government machine.

[update] - And looking again at the story itself on the Yahoo news page, I see a sidebar with the following headline

Health law will make calorie counts hard to ignore

Um Hummm,

First comes the requirement of posting of the calorie info at the restaurants,

Next comes the rules that say the restaurant has to report what meals you ate;

Next comes reporting of THAT info and the calorie counts to the government (because after all fatness IS a national emergency and the government has to pay for your illnesses, and your fatness is driving up the cost of health care, right);

Next comes the government regulation that everyone join a gym;

Next comes the requirement that all the gymsreport to the health Czar on how many workout you do a week;

Next comes the penalty or fine for eating too many French Fres and/or not going to the gym enough (call this a fries/gym ratio requirement),

Next comes the government Gestapo showing  up at your door with an arrsest warrant in hand to send you to a government run fat re-education camp;

and lastly comes ........  the Gulag.

All this, of course, a result of having a society that has educated its children to think it is our responsibility to feed starving children in Africa - which of course results in there being more children born in Africa, which of course means we get to do even more "helping".