Now that health care is a "right," statists are anxious to pioneer new ways to take money from productive citizens and give it to people who didn't earn it, but want to spend it.  The pattern is familiar by now: Identify a group that can be portrayed as "victims."  There are already several lists that can be used for this purpose: food stamp recipients, school lunch program recipients, public housing residents, and any number of demographic groups, whether based on immutable characteristics such as race or based on behavior. Identify something that the designated victims lack (or have less access to) that arouses feelings of sympathy, and portray whatever that is as a "right" – because people who earn money to fund their purchases would not like to do without it.  In fact, continued access to that purchase may be one of the reasons they drag themselves out of bed every morning and go to work, whether or not work...(Read Full Post)