Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said the Trump bill is moral, because it places work requirements on Medicaid recipients.
While placing work requirements on Medicaid recipients who can work seems like a good thing, it won’t make Medicaid moral. Medicaid is immoral because it’s based on coercion. Those who don’t obtain Medicaid are forced to pay for it through taxes and inflation.
Medicaid is not a charity program. Imagine if someone came to your house, held you up at gunpoint and said, “You can’t call the police. I am giving your money and possessions to needy people. I am moral.” It’s insane. Even if the money went to charity, it would still not be moral, because ROBBERY IS NEVER MORAL. Yet that’s exactly what the federal government does with socialized medicine–which is what Medicaid is.
Medicaid monopolizes the health insurance and medical industries. It keeps people from purchasing health care in a free market, like we presently do for groceries, clothes, and anything on Amazon. If health care were a free market, there would be no charity-based case for Medicaid. The government, by establishing Medicaid, essentially outlaws the free market; and then says, “Well where are people supposed to go for health care, if they’re not rich or middle class?” You outlawed the free market, idiots!
Free markets tend to drive down prices; government subsidies tend to drive up prices, create shortages and restrict both quality and access. And Medicaid is NOT a charity, as I said. Charity ends the moment you bring a gun or IRS agent into the picture.
So there’s no way we can make Medicaid moral. Or fiscally feasible, either, because socialized medicine is never, ever fiscally sustainable. Not until we once and for all outlaw coercion and involuntary servitude from ALL human relations. Medicaid should be phased out, and replaced with tax credits, tax cuts, voluntary choice, personal responsibility and — when desired — voluntary charity. THAT’S the only way to be moral.
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