Mark Small

Our freedoms - and our rights - are protected, not created, by The Constitution. According to Linda R. Monk, a legal scholar, writing for npr: “A right is a power or privilege that is recognized ... 7/23

by tradition or law. Natural or human rights are inherent to human nature; they are not given by government, but neither does government always protect them.” 8/23

Unless Dr Chuck spells out specific “Constitutional freedoms” he believes we need to protect, I can say nothing. For example, if he believes we need to protect rights of people - regardless of sex or gender - to marry, I shall agree with him. 9/23

Second, in regard to health care, Dr Chuck says scary things. In an IBJ article, 10/03/19, he is quoted: “health care means that we have a healthy workforce, and a healthy workforce means we have a healthy economy...” 10/23

Dr Chuck didnt say health care means people can realize “life, liberty, and happiness,” as stated in The Declaration of Independence. Instead we need to make sure that people can be healthy for the “workforce.” 11/ 23

Dr Chuck does not mention a concomitant duty of employers - who, in a free market economy profit from that “healthy workforce” - to foot the bill, as overhead, to keep that workforce healthy. I doubt he would embrace such a utopian concept. 12/23

Dr Chuck rears the ugly head of “socialism” as a major foe. From the Kokomo Tribune: “I want to make sure we make healthcare work for patients, and socialized medicine does not work.” 13/23

From the IBJ: Dr Chuck “wants to fix the health care system and believes a socialist approach will worsen things for patients.” I noted in other blogs that “socialism” is not a term easily defined, ... 14/23