On Sunday, Senator Kamala Harris, who has been cribbing Bernie Sanders' cheat sheet in order to position herself for a 2020 Democratic presidential run, tweeted out her feelings on the possible restructuring of Medicaid under the Senate Health Reform Bill. She tweeted, quote, Americans won't lose their health care. It's not like we left it on the bus. The Republicans are taking it from us. Don't take our stuff. Needless to say, this is imbecilic. Kamala Harris is right. Nobody will be losing their health care.

They didn't leave it on the bus because it's not a physical commodity, and it was never their stuff. Those on Medicaid had a grant from the government taken from redistributed money to help pay for their health care, which they obtained by pressuring doctors to provide it at low reimbursement rates. It wasn't theirs

any more than unemployment benefits or yours or welfare is yours or any other redistribunist

outcome is yours. Healthcare is a series of goods and services that belong to someone else

until you pay for them in an exchange, mutually agreed by the two sides. My wife is a doctor.

Her labor is not your stuff. That would make her an indentured servant. She has sunk some nine years of her life into becoming a doctor, four years of college, four years of medical school, and now she's just completed her first year of residency. That means we've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her education, and she spent countless hours working away from home, studying, and the like.

That work is not yours.

It is in Kamala Harris's.

The sense of entitlement behind democratic policy is simply mind-boggling.

More importantly, it's actually counterproductive.

Declaring someone else's labor yours doesn't make it magically appear.

Harris seems deeply concerned about cuts to Medicaid.

Apparently, she's unaware that Medicaid outcomes are generally no better than uninsured outcomes and that doctors are dropping out of Medicaid coverage

day in and day out thanks to government's failures. The moment you declare someone else's service is

yours, they stop providing them. But by invoking that sense of entitlement, Harris merely

ensures that she'll increase her popularity. Unfortunately, it is political catnip to tell people that things that don't belong to them actually do.

That's how Democrats gain power, even as they destroy the services, they supposedly seek to provide.

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