Universal Healthcare, an Enemy of our Freedom

According to the source it is stated that installing universal health care will result in an increase in taxes and restrict the civil liberties of our citizens. It claims that universal health care is the fundamental stage in paving the way towards developing an autocratic government as well as diminishing our most indispensable rights and freedoms. As people we are fortunate to be living in a prosperous democratic nation, in which we have the right to vote, to own private property, and to have free speech. For years our ancestors have fought to bestow these rights for our nation and as citizens we have battled to protect these precious liberties. The basis of creating a universal healthcare system is detrimental to the backbone of our nation. We demand power to be controlled by the hands of the people not in the hands of old men in suits who for decades have micromanaged the core of modern day society. The viewpoint of the source demonizes the beliefs of liberalism, and that it should not be incorporated within our government due to the fact that it can harm the nation’s economy as well as the destroying the autonomy of the citizens.

In the year 2008, the world underwent the worst financial crisis since the great depression. Hard working men and women were forced out of their jobs, small businesses had to be shut down, and thousands of families have been driven to inescapable debt. The market had stepped into financial firestorm of failing businesses, deficits and rising unemployment. Yet during this economic catastrophe, the left wing supporters are planning on creating a healthcare system that will further economically ruin the lives of the citizens by raising taxes on working class families and bringing upon financial hard...

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...rsal healthcare we fail to achieve this objective. As people we must understand that supporting this healthcare system will result in ordinary middle class families will be left in greater debt, our freedoms would be restricted and our medical needs will be in jeopardy. We must ask ourselves, are we willing to give up our freedom and prosperity for an illegitimate form of health care that will only provide the government with more political power. Overall the idea of universal healthcare is abysmal, because it allows the government to feed upon the free will of its own citizens and create an oppressive form of authority within society. The source is correct in stating that providing universal health care will reduce the sovereignty of the people and in order to keep the government away from our medicine cabinets is to put a stop to the idea of socialized healthcare.