The reason Conservatives are so opposed to any form of sociaized medicine or government
assisted health insurance (or any other form of social assistance or welfare) is that scarcities of those benefits ensure a docile and demoralized work force that will be willing to put up with any crap just to keep their jobs. The ability to be the only provider of everything we need to live or the only source of employment that allow us to purchase those things, is the ultimate economic power. It works better than bayonets or secret police. They have you by the balls and they manage to convince their victims the only reason they are always afraid is because they are lazy or stupid or socialistic.

A lot of Americans never fell for
the consumerist and easy credit Madison Avenue propaganda program, they lived responsibly and had their bills caught up and a little extra in the bank. They
have the financial resources to take a chance and leave their jobs; to either
look for a better one, go back to school, change careers, start their own
business, try something a little less stressful, or even retire to a little well-deserved rest. And they are willing to take those chances. They are in a stronger position to negotiate with their boss for a better job or a raise because they can actually back up their threat to
quit, and their boss knows it. After all, most employers realize that if they need an employee more than he needs them, they are going to have to pay him what he's actually worth, not just what they can get away with. Now THAT's what I call a free market!

But no matter how prosperous or competent you may be, if you or your family are caught without health insurance, it is potentially catastrophic, even for a medically routine treatment or procedure. No matter how well off you are,
financially or health-wise, no matter how ambitious or hard working you may be, a medical bankruptcy can ruin you. And health insrance is expensive, and often only available through our ermployers.

Think about it. In a time of world-wide declining economies and a bleak global financial outlook, the American health and medical insurance
industries are obscenely prosperous, and becoming ever more so every year. That is
not a coincidence, it is the result of policy. It was planned that way. Don't you think anyone who is profitting from that situation
isn't going to do whatever it takes to keep it from changing? Don't give me any
pious humbug about Freedom or Liberty, or the Federalist Fucking Papers. Just follow the money.

They did the same thing to health care they did to energy, consumer credit, the stock market, real estate, college educations and jobs. I predict food, will be where they make their next move.

Can you spell H-U-N-G-E-R?