CNN radio

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My local CNN Radio (WOIC, Columbia SC) had a commentator who was worried about a loss of our freedoms. His argument was that we worked all these years for women to get control of their bodies, but the way the current healthcare bill looks, both women and men would lose that control.

This was CNN, not Fox. It startled me.

Comments

[mount_oregano]

Did he mean that it goes to far, or it doesn't go far enough? I would think that the ultimate loss of control over your body would be dying because you can't afford overpriced private insurance, which seems to be a far-too-common feature of the current system.

[paul_carlson]

Oregano, it's a bit of both.
Last year I was posting "keep your laws off my body," borrowing a phrase I recall from my hippie teenage years.
I meant, exactly because I do NOT want 100 new federal boards and agencies "advising" me, under force of law, about my health and treatments.

Here's a mind-bender for you:
It's always assumed you'll just up-and-die without continual health insurance coverage.
Strangely enough, that is NOT backed by any reliable studies!
Of course there are a zillion anecdotes, and thus I mean, overall and across a period of several years. There's a blip of improvement, and then it settles into the same outcomes, either way. (See Megan McArdle's research on this, in the current issue of "The Atlantic" magazine.)

Main point: the federal government is not my nursemaid.