I have long argued that if the Gov’t has the responsibility to provide something like healthcare to you, then they necessarily possess the right to conduct personally invasive checks on your health and demand for compliance to a health standard. Perhaps calling it a “right” isn’t the best use of terminology, but that’s really an issue with semantics and a poor choice for a point of contention with the argument. Rightfully or not, they’ll do it. Think that’s far fetched? Take a cold, hard look at contemporary Japan. And the crazy part? Once the premise of gov’t provided universal healthcare is established, the government’s line of logic here isn’t all that off-base.
