Comments on: Health Care — The Trojan Horse for Fascism http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/01/health_care_the.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: individualist http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/01/health_care_the.html/comment-page-1#comment-4641 individualist Thu, 01 Feb 2007 07:42:09 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2007/01/health_care_the.html#comment-4641 <p>That's pretty bad. Here in Ontario, and I assume other places too, there is a movement towards tailoring massive gov't programs to attack health at its roots. Google "social determinants of health." Based on correlations of poverty, education, neighbourhood, etc. these programs would work for the end goal of good health. Talk about social engineering... sounds like Cuba.</p> <p>It is an example of how the public health system, and therefore society, ends up essentially "owning" your health. It completely rationalizes the imposition of sin taxes on cigarettes and alcohol, bans on unpasteurized milk (a farmer was recently arrested), laws banning raw fish in shushi joints, etc. And it won't stop there.</p> That’s pretty bad. Here in Ontario, and I assume other places too, there is a movement towards tailoring massive gov’t programs to attack health at its roots. Google “social determinants of health.” Based on correlations of poverty, education, neighbourhood, etc. these programs would work for the end goal of good health. Talk about social engineering… sounds like Cuba.

It is an example of how the public health system, and therefore society, ends up essentially “owning” your health. It completely rationalizes the imposition of sin taxes on cigarettes and alcohol, bans on unpasteurized milk (a farmer was recently arrested), laws banning raw fish in shushi joints, etc. And it won’t stop there.

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