More Nonsense From Liberals on Health Care

On Wednesday, Rocker Paul Hipp released this video advocating for health care reform.

There are two points that should be made.

First, the following lyrics show what is wrong with the left, and many on the right for that matter:

We're No. 37
We're the U.S.A.
We're No. 37
And we're so proud to say
We got old people crying at the pharmacy
Pay your deductible
This ain't the land of the f-f-f-free Grandma
We're No. 37
We're the U.S.A.

What he is saying is that because Americans have to pay for their health care instead of having it given to them, then we can't be the land of the free.

Really?

When did government entitlement become the defining factor of whether the nation is free? In reality, the opposite is true. We are free because the government, at least not yet, is not forcing us to buy a specific product, i.e., health insurance, or face some government-imposed sanction for refusing.

Under the so-called health care reform, Americans will, for the first time ever, be forced to buy a consumer product at the point of a government gun.

How is that freedom?

Too bad Mr. Hipp and his fellow liberals don't understand that basic fact.

The second point is minor, but one that bothers me.

In this video, Hipp refers to the World Health Organization's ranking of the U.S. health care system as the 37th out of 191 in the world (which is still better than the bulk of the world). It is a ranking that has been repeated in the current debate.

However, that is deceptive.

First, the ranking is from 2000.

Second, the rating is highly subjective. It was weighted based on how well a country's health system was doing compared to how well WHO's experts believed it should be doing based on education level and economic resources.

In the end, it was not an apples to apples comparison.

Using it as a reason to advocate for a government takeover of the health system is to use specious logic.