Of course the people outraged by Rush's statement are the same people that think everyone shoud have the right to the same exceptionally good quality of care the richest people get for one low price: free (courtesy of your tax dollars)--that's why they are outraged.
The cost of health care and how it could or should be paid is inherently intertwined with the topic of the thread. Of course the majority seem to have decided that it should be provided by the government, or by richer people via specialized taxes by the government (same difference). This leads to the spiral away from the topic into government spending practices, which always comes back to military spending.
There is a resounding theme among the national health care proponents that I will change my tune and want free care when I get older and my health begins failing (in all truth, it has already started, just a matter of years before my knees go out). I disagree. I am not the type of person that seeks out only what is in my own best interest. I have in the past and will in the future maintain my integrity by being honest and doing what I believe is right especially when it hurts me. If you change your beliefs to fit your environment, that is your choice. I would rather define a code of behavior based on what I believe is right, then try to live by it as much as humanly possible.
I happen to believe there was absolutely nothing outrageous about Rush's statement. If I am still alive 40 years from now and am suffering terribly because I can't afford better health care, I will still believe and say the same thing. I won't blame my government for failing to take care of me. I will blame the only person I ever hold responsible for my problems: myself.
If more people held themselves accountable for their own problems and took the appropritate actions instead of blaming the world around them and doing nothing to change, there wouldn't be nearly as big a need for welfare programs. If the people who had the means would voluntarily help the people who both deserve and need it just because it is the right thing to do, we wouldn't need government sponsored welfare at all.
Some people do not deserve help. Society should not support "dead wood". Some mistakes are unforgivable, or we wouldn't have "life" prison sentences. I would like to see our laws changed to more strongly promote the idea that when you are convicted of violating someone's rights in a criminal manner, that you forfeit all of yours. Capital punishment is a good start. The term "Prison rights" is an oxymoron. Why do convicted murderers get better healthcare for free than many law-abiding tax-payers? That is where your outrage should be directed.
