War is peace, freedom is slavery, single-payer healthcare is free.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ – Ronald Reagan

Is “I’m from the government and I’m here to heal you” any more reassuring?

In order to be really amusing, a joke has to be truthful. Something we recognize and relate to. And that’s why that Reagan quote is so famous. We know it’s terrifying when the government inserts itself into our lives. And yet, at some level we invite that interference and welcome it – or we wouldn’t tolerate the socialist creep occurring at all levels of government, and we wouldn’t consider “universal health care” for even a moment. It sounds so reassuring, doesn’t it? “Universal health care.” Universal – it’s for everyone! Health – hey, who doesn’t want health? Care – I have a warm, fuzzy feeling, don’t you?

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?… The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
- George Orwell, 1984

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, single-payer healthcare is free. The very name, “single-payer healthcare” is one of the best modern examples of Newspeak I’ve ever heard. It’s not “single-payer.” Everybody pays. Whether they use it or not. And it’s not “healthcare.” It’s healthcare rationing. Kevin, MD posts often on the lunacy that is “universal health care” or a single-payer system such as those used by Britain and Canada. And it is lunacy to give the government control of how and when we see a doctor.

As I have repeatedly stated, there are problems with our healthcare system. Some of them inexcusable. However, the single-payer solution that Moore proposes simply would exchange what we have for a whole new set of problems that may be even worse. …

[Michael Moore] blames all of the industry’s bad behavior on the profit motive. But one of his biggest villains – Kaiser Permanante – is a nonprofit. And while he does a gut-wrenching segment on Los Angeles hospitals dumping homeless patients back on the street after they are treated, he mentions only in passing that one of the guilty parties is a public hospital owned by the government. Aren’t those the same people he wants to put in charge of all of our health care?

The Orwellian influence doesn’t just stop with the name. The media and certain politicians (an unofficial Ministry of Truth?) are hard at work on this issue, evidently to gin up business for the Ministry of Plenty who will be deciding whether or when your child’s tonsils come out or he gets tubes in his ears. So what if your child has a perpetually sore throat or chronic ear infections? It’s free, isn’t it? The wisdom of Judge Smails will be enforced: “You’ll get nothing and like it!”

The worst part is that the “crisis” of the 45 million uninsured in this country isn’t a crisis at all. It’s completely manufactured:

Say it with me: War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, single-payer healthcare is free.

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