Health care is ploy to get votes

I respond to the Wednesday letter “Single-payer beats current coverage” from Albert Gabel.

Free health care is not a constitutional right here in the United States. All the federal government promises us is “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Our Constitution does not authorize the federal government to establishment an expansive cradle-tograve welfare program for all citizens, immigrants, and “refugees.” In fact, Social Security and Medicare likely are not constitutional but are so woven into our social fabric that they can never be extracted — a strategy not lost on the designers of Obamacare.

Do you really want the same bureaucrats who run the post office and Veterans’ Administration to control the access to health care? I don’t.

Canada and the UK both have the kind of single-payer health-care system some want here, but how’s that working out for them?

Preliminary cost estimates of a single-payer health-care system are dismal. As the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, once said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”

I myself had the pleasure of experiencing a “single-payer health-care system” during my four years on active duty in the Air Force. It was highly unsatisfying, and we and our pregnant wives avoided it like the plague.

Let’s be realistic: the single-payer health-care push is just a big vote-buying and control-the-masses effort by the Democratic Party, just like President Lyndon Johnson’s terribly expensive but disastrous Great Society welfare boondoggle.

Darrell Rathburn Columbus legally obtain compensation for being wrongly imprisoned nearly seven years on death row? The true killer confessed to the crime that Johnston was jailed for in 2008.

I have read of other people receiving compensation after serving time in jail before finding them innocent. I read about Johnston’s efforts to obtain full freedom quite a while ago. I couldn’t believe it when I recently read that he had tried again to receive justice and was denied by the Ohio Supreme Court again. This would seem like a complete miscarriage of justice.

Johnston has said “They are waiting for me to die.” He is 83 now and they might get their wish.

Will they be able to sleep at night? Probably.

Melvin Deere Grove City