| | Steyn describes health care reform as "the de facto nationalization of your body". Once again the mark is missed: it is always the nationalization of your capital as it relates to this or that excuse for taking it from you. They don't care about your body; they care about the power they now weild to change 1/6 of the American economy. It isn't about your body; it's about the money.
Money represents the amount of economic freedom you have. Money has nothing to do with the freedom of your corpus, or of your will to buy this insurance or to forego buying it altogether. It is your economic freedom that is being assaulted here, and as Steyn says, that "is about as primal an assault on individual liberty as one could devise", short of jailing a person for failure to cough up the money.
Oh, hey, what if you are one of those people who opted out of the tax system, who operates strictly on an exchange of labor, goods, and services in return for the same, thus exempting you from paying taxes since no money has changed hands: Will you be jailed for not being able to "buy" insurance? How do you convince an insurance company they need to accept your labor or services or your goods in return for an insurance plan? And since that insurance plan has a cash value, will you then have to pay taxes?
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It's not just the money. The notion that the IRS should be able to seize your assets if you don't arrange your health care to the approval of the federal government represents the de facto nationalization of your body, which is about as primal an assault on individual liberty as one could devise.
