Nazi Healthcare in New York City

Bill de Blasio

By Robert Wenzel

As the trending view, that the government should fix all, continues to expand in the United States, a frightening step that can only be called Nazi healthcare has emerged in New York City under the socialist mayor Bill de Blasio.
You see in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities in Brooklyn there has been an outbreak of measles. This is because the community is against measle vaccines.

There may be a justification for this. There are suspicions that the measles vaccine causes autism and other health problems. I hold no opinion.

At the same time, the chances of dying from measles is minimal. In the late 1950s in the United States, it was probably close to 1 in 10,000.

I had measles as a child and so did all my friends. It was no big deal and a break from being sent to child day prison--school.

But, as we know, lefties are not deep thinkers. They do not analyze and compare. They are knee jerk reactors to situations and do not think about options or second and third stage consequences. And when they get something in their head, they want to make it mandatory for all.

It is remarkable as to the amount of sound thinking that is stopped when they get something in their knee-jerk brains,

I have already reported on the hip $560 per hour hip San Francisco doctor who is in favor of the measle vaccine.

He said, "I will admit to you that sometimes I talk about things I don't know a lot about but I have carefully studied vaccinations."

He then went on to make the absurd claim that  "5% of children who caught measles died."

From what I have seen and heard from Mayor de Blasio, he is even more of a brain-freeze power freak and it is on display now after the measles outbreak.

de Blasio has declared a public health emergency that would require unvaccinated individuals living in Williamsburg and Brooklyn to receive the measles vaccine. The mayor said the city would issue violations and possibly fines of $1,000 for those who did not comply.

“This is the epicenter of a measles outbreak that is very, very troubling and must be dealt with immediately,”  de Blasio said at a news conference in Williamsburg, adding: “The measles vaccine works. It is safe, it is effective, it is time-tested.”

So speaks the statist who thinks he knows better than everyone living in Williamsburg and Brooklyn. It should be noted his degrees are in politics, not medicine.

But this is the way central planning power freaks operate, they make decisions for all backed up by the power of the gun. They hate freedom. It is, ultimately, their way or death. They are very dangerous people. Much more dangerous than measles.

Robert Wenzel is Editor & Publisher of EconomicPolicyJournal.com and Target Liberty. He also writes EPJ Daily Alert and is author of The Fed Flunks: My Speech at the New York Federal Reserve Bank and most recently Foundations of Private Property Society Theory: Anarchism for the Civilized Person Follow him on twitter:@wenzeleconomics and on LinkedIn. His youtube series is here: Robert Wenzel Talks Economics. More about Wenzel here.