The nationalized healthcare hissy fit

April 25, 6:20 PMDallas Libertarian ExaminerGarry Reed

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As the Watchdog Politics Examiner, Martha Gore recently wrote a report on the President’s proposed nationalized healthcare plan, which she captioned, “Obama nationalized health care plans debated.”

Something called Media Matters.org took utmost umbrage with Ms. Gore for having the audacity to refer to their Hero and Savior St. Obama’s plans for nationalized healthcare as nationalized healthcare and threw what is known in Texas as a hissy fit.

Their sensitivities were apparently piqued because the Christian Science Monitor, from which Ms. Gore quoted, never used the phrase “nationalized healthcare,” nor did Sir Obama himself, nor did anyone else, nor is it ever politically correct to call nationalized healthcare nationalized healthcare in any case.

Ms. Gore was therefore branded with “false reporting.”

But from a free society perspective, any coercive intrusion by the national government into the private healthcare choices of private citizens is by definition nationalized healthcare.

So let’s take a moment to explore what obviously isn’t obvious but ought to be.

"A is A" is a concept of Aristotelian logic, popularized in the 20th century by Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged and other writings, which simply means that a thing is what it is regardless of what anyone might think, say, daydream, wish for or lie about what it is.

It means that a pig is a pig, period. If a thing exists, it exists independently of any human label. Existence and human labeling are not the same thing.

So who’s kidding whom about nationalized healthcare and false reporting? Everyone, meaning right, left, conservative, liberal, libertarian, everyone, has always known that one of the big defining wet dreams of the political left has been nationalized healthcare ever since the first freedom-hating American collectivist returned from a socialist European country convinced that he had just visited the Perfected Communal Phantasmland of Nirvana.

It has never been a secret.
 

Non-coercively obtaining healthcare is a human right, but not a human entitlement.
That would be called criminal. (AP photo)

But now we aren’t supposed to call nationalized healthcare nationalized healthcare because Obama’s legion of little lefty clones and, apparently the media, prefer a different euphemism. 

What euphemism would they prefer? Dictated doctoring? Mandated medicinal dispensing? Politicized pill pushing? Motherland medical monopoly? 

Media Matters.org insists on using the benign sounding “public insurance plan” which is, of course, merely a politically correct euphemism for nationalized healthcare. 

So following this line of “reasoning,” if a writer reports that a GI was “accidently killed by his own troops” rather than using the military’s officially sanctioned politicalspeak “victim of friendly fire” that would be false reporting. 

If a writer reports that an accused terrorist was “tortured” rather than using the Bush administration’s officially CIA-sanctioned policyism “subjected to extraordinary rendition” that would be false reporting. 

If a writer reports that a homeowner defended herself with an “automatic rifle” rather than using the media-mumbled gungrabber’s concocted knee-jerk locution “assault weapon” that would be false reporting. 

If that’s how your brain works, then of course writing “nationalized healthcare” instead of the Obamabot’s carefully camouflaged “absolutely free and breathtakingly fabulous healthcare for every living breathing American citizen and illegal immigrant on the face of the North American Continent” would be false reporting. 

Want to know what false reporting really is? It’s telling people that a pig is a pony. It’s using euphemisms to pretend that A is not A and then leveling charges of “false reporting” against anyone who tells the truth. 

The Left knows this. The Right knows this. Libertarians know this. 

Nationalized healthcare is nationalized healthcare. A pig is a pig. A is A. Get over it, people.