Those who lazily describe health insurance as a “right” are trivializing not just the notion of rights, but the spectacular sacrifices required across centuries to guarantee them. The Democratic Party’s embrace of this thinking is a disgrace. Those who trivialize slavery in the manner of Sen. Paul are doing exactly the same thing. This kind of snarky libertarianism is the sulking, spoiled teenager of our political culture. It is rotting us at the core. The right’s embrace of this thinking is an embarrassment.

Paul’s overblown analogy exposed a nasty concept that’s ruining the conservative movement – the idea that there are no authentic values that extend beyond the individual. On the one side of our politics are people who seem to think citizenship is only about what government can take from someone else and give to them. The other side is blind to all government does, imagines they are the only ones producing anything valuable, and defines every civic obligation as tyranny. In the middle are…well, increasingly few who are holding the whole experiment together.

If every obligation we have to each other, every duty we owe to our heritage, to our nation, and to those who would follow us is oppression, we have a short future. Like it or not, we are in this together. Citizenship means shared burdens and shared rewards. If that’s “collectivism,” then the Earth has yet to experience a non-collectivist civilization. And it never will.

ObamaCare is enough to make you sick with its false promises, trillion dollar price tag, and outright lies! In a well-crafted op-ed Karl Rove exposes the sleazy back door deals the Obama administration cut for their friends in the Affordable Care Act. These are a few of the favorite things Obama supporters received.

The law mandates insurers spend 80% of premiums for individual and small plans on medical expenses and 85% of premiums be spent for large group plans. Behemoth companies like McDonald’s who offer mini-med, lower costs programs announced last year they would drop their plans because they couldn’t meet the requirement. (Other companies said they may drop coverage for employees because paying the penalty under ObamaCare may be cheaper than providing health insurance for employees.)

“Having to drop our current mini-med offering would represent a huge disruption to our 29,500 participants,” said McDonald’s in a memo, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “It would deny our people this current benefit that positively impacts their lives and protects their health—and would leave many without an affordable, comparably designed alternative until 2014.”

As the “official” story goes, between the year 1932 and the year 1972, the United States Public Health Service (PHS) conducted a series of secret longitudinal studies on Black sharecroppers who had already procured syphilis. While the official story says one thing, if you ask people about the study, most will tell you that the Tuskegee experiments resulted in Blacks secretly being injected with syphilis by the government.

I’ve read countless articles on the internet from both left-wing and right-wing sources who believe that what most people think about the study is more conspiratorial than factual. They purport that since the sharecroppers already had syphilis, that the government officials only erred in not telling them that they were sickly. My argument to that is, how could anyone trust the “official” story from bureaucrats who were purposely deceptive for several decades?

There was much laughter following the presidents signing of the health care bill. Democrats were positively giddy over having successfully secured America’s decline. There were fist bumps and back slapping; the champagne flowed.

Democrats were not alone in their celebration. Republicans too shook hands with constituents and lapped up attention and praise for, let’s face it, having done very little. But, hey, why let that spoil a good time? My fear is that not only will Republicans not “repeal the bill” should they take control of congress after the mid-term elections, but that in the very near future Republican candidates will also be running on promises to nurture it. Such is my confidence in the current GOP.

Inasmuch as we are toasting the expansion of the administrative state (and thus the demise of our American Republic) we should perhaps also raise our glasses to Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. All these nations are on the verge of economic collapse due to their fiscal promiscuity. They too love their entitlements and are demanding them even as the ship of state sinks. Portugal is currently running a deficit that is 9.3% of GDP with a debt that is 80% of their GDP. Greece has a deficit of 13% and a debt of 113% of GDP. Just for laughs consider that they are appealing to the United States for financial aid. The U.S. currently carries a deficit that is over 12% and debt that is 94% of GDP.

Healthcare is in large part a technical matter that in a better world would be more cleanly divorced from political philosophy than it is. But as best I can describe them, here are the key problems I think we need to tackle.

There is a clear line of demarcation in governing approaches between the Democrats and the Republicans, especially with Democrats controlling the entire federal government. The only question is whether the Republicans want to win or do they just want to scare people.

Love him or not, I have to give it to Mr. Obama who has artfully shifted the Health Care debate to insurability from access and affordability which his legislation on health care is also not about. Risk assessment and coverage are a major concern in providing insurance coverage to everyone or in mitigating against financial losses in most situations. With health care eliminating increased costs based on risk, controlling access and costs are much trickier than is appreciated by John Q public or legislators.

If people continue to engage in slovenly behavior such as smoking, failing to exercise, excessive eating and other engagements which are within their control, why should policyholders (taxpayers) pay extra for their risks?

Why must it cost $75-150 for a five-minute consultation with a doctor?

“ObamaCare” is coming. The House will get the votes and the Senate will use reconciliation. This is inevitable.

For a over a year, a great portion of the American polity has dedicated its time to addressing those two statements. Thousands of speeches, millions of pages of text and who-knows-how-many bytes of data have been generated to express the feelings of those on both sides of the aisle. Our political system has ground nearly to a halt amidst the debate.

Health care reform is not a new issue. Teddy Roosevelt sparred with his opponents on the topic over century ago. Harry Truman tried reforming the system. Bill and Hillary Clinton tried it. Since we’re still talking about it, I think we know just how much success any of those folks had.

What does the wino do when he has consumed all his wine? He begs others for theirs. Rather than a world leader– we will be a nation at the behest of others.

This holiday season, as millions of Americans decorate their homes, exchange gifts, volunteer at local shelters, and spend time with their loved ones, let us consider our government’s wish list: Fed-induced monetary “stimulus” and trillion dollar health care reform. Both big ticket items and both seemingly paved with good intentions. Who wouldn’t want a strong economy and affordable health care? But, someone should tell this current administration that there is no Santa Claus and you just can’t get something for nothing.

Unfortunately, the bureaucrats in Washington just don’t get it.They continuously have said deficit spending would revive our economy, as would artificially low benchmark interest rates.

I am always troubled by those in government claiming they have a moral imperative to enact this or that policy. A little digging often reveals that their motives are more self serving than moral.

Such is the case with liberal Democrats and their insistence that the moral laws of the universe – laws that have been with us since God breathed life into man (or as some would have it when we rose from the primordial soup) – command Government to supply every citizen (and many that aren’t) with health insurance.

HipHopRepublican.com recently sat down with Sophia Davis for an excusive interview. Sophia, is a 23 years old Capitol Hill staffer for Senator George V. Voinovich. In this interview Sophia Davis talks about her views on Healthcare, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and her future plans in Washington, DC.