Mark Levin: Health Care is a Right

Later today, Obama will sign the government-run health care/massive tax increase/oppression of liberty bill into law.

It will become the law of the land.

Officials unveiled the plan to use a signing ceremony to showcase the benefits of the health-care overhaul after a divided House passed the Senate-approved bill and the separate revisions, known as a reconciliation bill, in a marathon Sunday session that culminated more than a year of political discord over Obama's signature domestic initiative. By a 219-212 vote, the House approved the Senate bill, handing Democrats a historic victory in a long-running battle to reform the nation's $2.5 trillion health-care system. The vote for the reconciliation bill was 220-211. No Republican voted for either measure.

It's very important to know your rights when it comes to your health care.

You are entering utopia!

Mark Levin explains:

MARK LEVIN: Did you know health care is a right now? Well I say this: If health care is a right, then the government does not have the right to turn down anything you need when it comes to your health care. What do you think of that? Let's turn it on them in their language.

It's a right. That means if I need to see a doctor right now, it's a right. That means if I need a prescription right now, it's a right. That means if I need a procedure or a test or surgery right now, it's a right. I don't have to wait for any bureaucrat to say so. I don't have to wait in any lines. I have an immediate right to affordable, quality health care. That's what they say.

And if it's a right, if it's an unalienable, God-given, constitutional right, then let's have it right now. Where is it? Where will it be a year from now, 3 years from now?

It's a right, they say, not a privilege, not something you have to go out and get. It is a right, like a right to vote. OK. OK, then we want our right. And we'll never get it, which means it's not a right really to the Left. It's just another false promise....

This is tyranny's disguise. These are not rights. They are the statists' false promises of utopianism, which the statist uses to justify all trespasses on the individual's private property. Liberty and private property go hand in hand, as Adams said, as Milton Friedman said, and every liberty-loving American understands. By dominating one, the statist dominates both. Where if the individual cannot keep or dispose of the value he creates by his own intellectual and/or physical labor, he exists to serve the state.

And that's what happened yesterday.

We now exist to serve the state. You don't get to pick the health care you want. You don't get to pick the provider you want. You don't get to pick the benefits you want. They're going to tell you what to do, how to do it, and when to do it; not because it's in your best interests or your family's, not because it's the right way to go when it comes to quality health care, because this it what they demand. They mandate it. And it's only going to get worse.

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We were told by Barack Obama that health care is a right. It's a fundamental right. We were told by Nancy Pelosi and all of her clones last night -- one by one who went to the microphone -- that health care is a right.

Now any of you who receive your health care through Medicare, or the VA, or Medicaid, or some other government involvement in your health care -- the next time some bureaucrat at any of these departments says to you, 'NO,' you tell them it is your God-given right to get that prescription drug. You tell them it is your God-given right to have that device. You tell them it is your God-given right to have that procedure because the president said so, and Pelosi said so, and every one of their damn drones said so.

You tell them that you have a condition, pre-existing or otherwise, and the president of the United States said all pre-existing conditions are covered. And you tell them you want your health issue, whether it's an illness or a disease, taken care of right there, right then, right now. Because according to them, it is your God-given right to have it, have whatever you need whenever you need it, and if necessary, for free.

Now, damn it, they want to create utopia, now you demand utopia. It's your right. Now I demand, as a matter of right, that my premiums be cut by $2,500.... [Obama] said he would. Now, damn it, do it.

Let us hold their feet to the fire. Let us insist when they say that they're going to create utopia, let's put them to the test. Right now. Because, ladies and gentlemen, they are frauds. They are complete and utter frauds, and we have to hold them to their utterly irresponsible, out of control promises and rhetoric. Now let's hold them to it. Now I want utopia. They promised it and I want it. And I want it now.

And when I go to the pharmacy, I have a right to it. I want utopia. When I go to the doctor, I have a right to it. I want utopia. When I go in the emergency room, I have a right to it. I want utopia, damn it.

And while we're getting utopia for ourselves and our families, the president said, as did Pelosi, as did the other frauds, that while we get everything we want, everything we need as fast as we need it, quality is going to go up and the cost of health care overall is going to go down. Really?

As a matter of fact, they said this is a deficit cutter. That we should not vote one penny in Congress, you folks in Congress should not vote one penny over $940 billion. They said this would cost $940 billion over 10 years when we know damn well it's $2.4 trillion. But they said 940, then 940 it is. Not one damn penny more. $940 billion -- that's the cost of utopia. Period.

Now we know that's a fraud and we know it's a lie, but they told us yesterday and every day before, $940 billion. That's the figure. Good. That's the price of utopia.

Now, let's keep an eye on this. Let's see what happens. Now you people have rights. The president said you have rights. The Congress said you have rights. Now assert them. Demand them. And if you can't get them, complain to your congressman and complain to the president. What's wrong with that?

You have a right, a God-given and constitutional right to whatever you want, to whatever you need. And, you have a right to it in time so that actually it has a positive effect on your health.

What are you going to do with your $2,500?

And what are you going to have done under ObamaCare? You're going to be taken care of. The government is picking up the bill.

Don't worry about anything. This is utopia.