Chamblee54

That wacky libertarian, Senator Typewriter, is in the news again. He is on youtube saying that if you have a right to health care, then you can break into his office, and force him to wait on you. This may or may not be true, as we will examine in a minute. The first thing to occur to PG is, you might not get the best treatment from a slave doctor. Even an eye doctor like Senator Typewriter. Ok, you forced me to examine your eyes, now let me put these drops in your eyes. Oh, that was battery acid. My bad.
At this point, you may wonder, why does chamblee54 reefer to Rand Paul as Senator Typewriter. Well, there was a rumor that he was named for Ayn Rand, who got her pen name from a Remington Rand Typewriter. As for the Senator, he was Randy until his gf shortened it to Rand. As for the authoress, there are other, more likely, sources of her pen name. But, we are talking logic here, and as we all know, two wrongs make a right. If you multiply a negative number, by a negative number, you get a positive number. Senator Typewriter it is.
As for the substance of his comments, this is libertarian reductio ad absurdam. Once you start talking about rights, people get all sorts of goofy ideas. So yes, if you talk about a right to health care, on a certain level what Senator T is saying is true. On a practical level, the debate is not about the availability of health care, it is how to pay for it.
PG has compared health care to road building. Currently, no one disputes that building and maintaining roads is the job of the government. We collect a gasoline tax to pay for them. The system is not perfect, but works well enough to enable an auto based lifestyle. ( How this will work as economic and environmental factors dictate less use of gasoline engines remains to be seen.) Still, the point is that few dispute the role of government in road building.
How does this relate to health care? If we were to adapt the single payer system, it would be the job of government to provide health care. It would be an imperfect system, but many feel it would work much better than whatever we have in effect now. As for forcing Senator Typewriter out of bed to examine your eyes…there would be another eye doctor on duty then.
HT for this story to JoemyG-d . The blogspot server is having a hissy fit, and this post may no longer be available. Pictures are from a big government institution, The Library of Congress