WHY CAN'T LIFE BE FAIR? – The Inevitable Failing of National Healthcare

When I was growing up, sometimes, despite my best effort and most diligent approach to a challenge, I would fail. Often I would succeed but in the high-stake odds of life, there were times when I failed.

My mother, who was routinely my biggest fan was also my reality check. When I failed, her forthright response was, "Life isn't fair. Get used to it."

As I view the political landscape and hear the ballyhoo about "social justice" what I really hear is, the government thinks that it is their constitutional responsibility to make life fair.

Health care, in my opinion, is Washington's latest crusade to make life "fair." What this plan overlooks is the immutable, inevitable truth that life is not fair. For this administration — or any administration regardless of political affiliation — to believe it has such an obligation is idealistic folly.

But more than that, it puts government in the position of deciding what is morally fair and making the unbiased judgment as to what in life is unfair. Since when has it become Washington's right to legislate morality? My father-in-law, a died-in-the-wool liberal Democrat was adamant that government should never be the arbiters of morality. And yet, when we pass laws that will take funds away from one or any segment of the population to pay for another for no other reason than it is the fair and moral thing to do is suspect. Government cannot — and should not — legislate morality.

If government feels it can make life fair, then the entire nation is in for a very rude awakening. No amount of money, no matter how much with which we shall inevitably be yoked, will make it so. No example in history, no observable model exists that can prove otherwise.