Conservatives have been warning for ages that economic rights are human rights. A government that will take away an individual’s property rights sooner or later will also take his freedom of speech. As British poet and essayist Hilaire Belloc noted, “the control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.” President Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, proved the point by threatening health insurers who dare to blame Obamacare for “unreasonable” rate increases. She will blacklist violators from participating in future government-run health insurance exchanges, thus putting many of them out of business. Since Medicare’s chief actuary predicts that “essentially all” Americans will be insured through these exchanges, Sebelius is telling private firms: “Shut up or we will destroy you!”
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