Health care freedom is on life support.
Currently we are in the middle of a debate over what a healthcare package should or should not contain.
Those who want the package have been able to enmesh us in arguments over minutia. What we should be arguing is whether government should be involved in the medical field in the first place.
As a result of the limited debate, the danger is that we will get something we “can all live with.” This is the Republican opposition argument. It sounds a lot like choosing your own poison.
That "something we can live with" will help cap the arch of the socialist state. In an earlier column I citied Robert Welch’s quote of the Russian communist leader, Lenin: “Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.”
Let there be no mistake, the leading advocates of healthcare have indicated that this current legislation is only the first step toward total socialized medicine.
The bleeding-heart liberals who want to do all things for all people deny anything that will expose the fact that underneath their lamb-like exteriors hides a wolf. They will always try to “kill the messenger” as their means of silencing their opposition, especially those who expose too much of their true agenda.
As an example, The John Birch Society and others were criticized during the debate over the Equal Rights Amendment battle as extremists and that we were saying things that were not true; we were fear-mongers.
What we stated was that if you treat women as equals in all things, soon you will see women in combat carrying rifles. Ultimately, if a draft were reinstituted, women would be drafted for combat roles. Of course, the women’s lib movement said we were nuts and the ERA had nothing to do with such a role for women.
Now we have witnessed a two-day campaign by the New York Times extolling the virtues of women in combat, showing women carrying rifles on combat patrols in the Middle East.
What one does not want to do is to put women into combat, especially in an area that does not respect women. Photos have been published that have shown the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by both American men and women. If American women were captured, how do you think they would be treated?
Where are the women’s libbers now? We have read some very disturbing stories about foreign immigrants and how they have killed or maimed their wives and daughters. They are also strangely quiet about these abuses as well as women being used in combat. After all, combat is not good for your health.
Now we see that those who oppose health care legislation are being called fear-mongers, because they are citing what is being said about euthanasia in the reform bill via the “death panel” proposal.
Yet we see too many indications that while the language of the legislation can be somewhat obscure, the articles supporting healthcare include statements that care for the elderly is too expensive. As one columnist in the New York Times wrote in the last couple of days in this regard: “Somebody will need to say ‘no’ to retirees.”
The Wall Street Journal editorial of Friday, August 14, said that if healthcare is nationalized, or mostly nationalized, that “rationalizing care is inevitable, and those who have lived the longest will find their care the most restricted.”
Just as we were criticized for drawing out the lines of what would eventually happen with equal rights, we are now criticized for drawing out the lines of the language of healthcare leading to euthanasia. There are countries with nationalized healthcare where euthanasia occurs. Will we find ourselves on that same slippery slope?
Power in the hands of the state, at best, leads to corruption; at worse, decisions over who lives and who dies. Any medical program that does not have the direct decision and payment for care by the individual or his immediate family is not only cost ineffective in the long run, it is dangerous in the hands of those who want to rule us.
Oh, and it’s unconstitutional. As I recall, Congressmen still take an oath to the Constitution. When it comes to voting, too many Congressmen forget that.
Any healthcare program has to be defeated, regardless of the provisions. Governments never give up power. A little today becomes a lot tomorrow.
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