Well, let me back it up a bit. I'll ask a few questions and then propose what I think are fair answer to illustrate my thought, here.
Q: What is the basic goal, in society, pertinent to the discussion here?
A: Personal well-being--health.
Q: What is the goal of government? (in America)
A: (I'll leave this one to you, but that could be a serious break-down in the argument right there)
Q: Why is government involved in personal well-being?
This is a complicated question, if you unravel the current state of our society down to the basics, and question the merit of various components (or you could just accept all components like a lemming and say screw freedom, we want universal health-care). My point is I believe there are many other avenues to personal well-being, some of which involve personal responsibility and the possibility of failure. A government might legitimately be used to
remove a component or element which is found to be detrimental to the people's efforts toward personal well-being. My other point is that there are a lot of weighty reasons for the form of government which was instituted by our founding fathers which regard subjects unrelated to "health-care". Some have been dispensed with/changed for the better, perhaps, and some perhaps for the worse, but none should be dispensed with while focusing on a complex assumption of an ideal (health-care), at the
expense or in
ignorance of those weighty reasons for the structures which we would demolish.
I'm saying I believe we can be healthy AND free, and I think people that insist it isn't so are either unimaginative or have interests unfortunately contrary those of the average American. I'm not being random, but you know the rest of the world isn't so great that we couldn't be
better by being
different from where they've got it fundamentally wrong, and not just better at doing what they're doing pretty well. And I'm not denying we're not doing well as a country at all. I have no reason not to find "23rd" believable. America needs to turn around, but not by following ignorant, idealistic, globalist, lemmings off of the popular cliff because we've never known any other direction. Maybe it's time for some change that doesn't land the person touting it in a position of power?
Kind of a rant there toward the end, but maybe you can extract what I'm trying to get across from it. I'm really not an anarchist, I just don't at all think that the status-quo is so great (or even so remotely acceptable). Also--because it comes to mind--the scientific advances that vision prophecies so frequently
cannot help a people that are in danger of going into another dark age due to terrible ignorance which knows just enough to manipulate the world around it with a level of success and think itself learned. My opinion based on my own experience: morality goes first, then real intellectuality/thought, and finally at this point a people are powerless to prevent or reverse whatever will follow. This needs to be reversed in the proper order if it is to be reversed at all--morality, intellect, ...the rest.
Another rant. I better get to bed.
" It's a hell of a lot cheaper to get mugged! Just wave someone down and offer them $100-$300 for a nice easy ride to the nearest hospital. 
