Hillarycare Soon Cometh

A majority of Americans think it a good idea to let the government solve the health-care "crisis". This strikes me as several standard deviations short of brilliant.

Americans are even more critical of health care costs in the nation as whole: 59 percent are very dissatisfied with the overall cost of health care in the U.S. and another 22 percent are somewhat dissatisfied.

Most Americans believe government can play a role in fixing the health care system. Two-thirds say the federal government should guarantee that all Americans have health insurance — and a similar number says providing health insurance for all is a more serious problem than keeping health care costs down.

And you wonder why I oppose universal suffrage. Although I'm too young to remember when Hillarycare Round I went down in inglorious defeat, it looks as though I may be able to watch Round II, wherein the Queen shall find success.

Being a mostly healthy twenty-something male, I rarely use health-care services, but when everyone and their mother insists that the system is broken, I am wont to believe them. But the solution to a problem can't involve the government. The government does not solve problems, least ways not as it ought. The Patriot Act, for instance, will one day come in handy for rounding up irascible dissidents, but it won't help us fight the War on Terror. Similarly, Universal Hillarycare will bankrupt the country, but health-care will only deteriorate in quality.

The one bright star on the horizon is that the sooner we bankrupt the country, the sooner abortion will be outlawed. I know, this is a curve-ball, but stick with me and all will soon be clear.

Baring stringent moral values such as we Catholics possess which put a premium on having children, lots of children, people will have as many children as they feel they can afford. As it becomes harder and harder to provide for children, birth rates will decrease, as they have reliably done both in the U.S. and throughout the more "civilized" nations. Add to this that women no longer require men to marry them before giving up the goods, and the incentive for men to marry, and then have children, diminishes further.

But society depends on workers. Our solution to the birth crisis will take one of the following forms:

1) Payments for those who have more than x children, as they now do in some countries in Europe.

2) Massive immigration to the country in crisis. Immigrants, especially those from the third world, tend to have much higher birth rates. In point of fact, without the extent of immigration we now have in the U.S., our birth rates would be below, instead of at replacement level.

3) A revocation of Roe v. Wade and subsequent pro-abortion decisions and legislation, as well as, possibly an overthrow of Griswold, the birth control case.

Implementation of the first in Europe has had little affect, and the second has its limitations; when the Mexicans annex the southwest, land which we once took from them, it is unlikely that such a move would help birth rates in the now smaller U.S. of A.

This leaves the third option. If we are going to live in an entitlement system, a pyramid scheme of sorts, each generation wholly dependent on the next for its livelihood, the next generation must exist. And it must exist in larger numbers than the generation above it in the pyramid, lest the system collapse.

If people refuse to have children, the government will no doubt step in to make sure the greater good is served. Keep thine eyes on Europe. Compulsory pregnancy will follow on the heels of Hillarycare. Call it a crazy hunch.