Paging Doctor Orwell

This is what happens when the government provides your health care.

A quarter of people want the government to ban smokers being treated by the NHS for smoking-related illness, according to a BBC poll.

ICM conducted the phone survey of 1,010 adults in England, Wales and Scotland for the BBC Healthy Britain poll on a range of public health issues.

Some 27% said the government should discourage smoking by introducing the ban while 71% opposed the move.

The survey also found the public wanted to see the legal smoking age raised.

Four out of five people said the age should be changed from 16 to 18 to deter young people from taking up the habit.

When the public, through the government, is financing your health care, then the public (through the government) has a vested interest in making sure that you live your life according to the wishes of the public at large.  In other words, in order to keep costs down the government will be coming in to your homes and bedrooms making sure that you live a lifestyle that the government deems healthy.

Catch herpes?  Well, you didn’t wear a condom, which is a violation of Health Code 248.16, so you don’t qualify for treatment.  Obese?  Well, you did eat more than the governmental limit on potato chips, so you don’t qualify.  You get the idea.

I find it astonishing that the liberals like Michael Moore who cry the loudest about the alleged civil rights violations in the PATRIOT Act are also the very same people who think that the government should be providing you with free health care, housing, and an education.  If the government isn’t trustworthy enough to look at your library records, how can you possibly trust them with your medical records?