The United States Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended mandatory depression screening for all Americans. The task force wants to force health insurance companies to pay for the screening. Basic economics, as well as the Obamacare disaster, should have shown this task force that government health insurance mandates harm Americans.
Government health insurance mandates raise the price of health insurance. Consumers will respond to this increase by either choosing to not carry health insurance or by reducing their consumption of other goods and services. Imposing new health insurance mandates will thus make consumers, many of whom are already suffering from Obamacare’s costly mandates, worse off by forcing them to deviate from their preferred consumption patterns.
Mandatory depression screening will not just raise insurance costs. In order to ensure that the screening mandate is being properly implemented, the government will need to create a database containing the results of the screenings. Those anti-gun politicians who want to forbid anyone labeled “mentally ill” from owning a firearm will no doubt want to use this database as a tool to deprive individuals of their Second Amendment rights.
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ReplyDeleteMore govt trying to control our lives!
ReplyDelete2nd amendment grab
ReplyDeleteIf you are found depressed by the government doctor, you will be sent to reeducation camp
ReplyDeleteThis crap is really getting out of control!!
ReplyDeleteMandatory screening=gun confiscation.
ReplyDeleteMost people try to hide their depression. At least this way they can talk to their doctor about it and start to get some help.
ReplyDeleteMy primary doctor kind of reluctantly told me at the last visit that Medicare requires them to ask some questions - one of them was "do you ever feel depressed?" Since I was recovering from orthopedic surgery I jokingly said it does get a little tricky functioning when you can't walk right. I almost fell for the trick. BE CAREFUL - refuse to answer these types of questions. They're trying to identify people who say they experience depression so that information can be accessed from some database and used against them if they ever want to purchase a gun. IT IS UNBELIEVABLE HOW THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO "TRICK" THE GENERAL POPULATION BY MAKING PEOPLE THINK THEY'RE JUST ANSWERING QUESTIONS LIKE TRIVIA ON A GAME SHOW. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX NOW - KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
ReplyDeleteA few days ago at a specialist's office one of the questions on the lengthy intake form was "do you have a gun at your house?" (I had already heard that question was showing up on some medical forms). I left the question unanswered except for to clearly print "PERSONAL".