The health insurance bill passed, and it’s one more triumph of the federal government over individual rights. All statists, rejoice! You’ve managed to succeed in having Big Brother intrude into one more aspect of your life. I, for one, am not happy about it, not only because I don’t like living under the watchful eye of Big Brother, but also because I know that American health care used to be run in a very different way.
The government originally got involved in the health insurance industry in the 1920’s, because health insurance was originally too inexpensive. That’s right: too inexpensive. At the time, “fraternal societies,” of which one-fourth of Americans were…
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