Health Care and the State
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This is the most serious post I have made to date on this blog.
Sometimes I have written about personal stuff; sometimes I have gone on rants; sometimes I have just been having fun writing about the teams I follow.
This is serious. I am making an urgent plea for you to consider carefully what I will share below.
I believe that the health care legislation now before the US House of Representatives and being pushed by the President is the greatest threat to liberty that I have experienced in this nation in my lifetime. I am not making that statement casually--I make it in all soberness and urgency. I will seek to be measured in what I write below because I want to gain your ear and urge your advocacy against this proposal. It is, I believe, a bill that carries evil consequences.
We could argue the pros and cons of a state-administered health care service. Personally, I am opposed. My personal bias is almost always against the growth of the state. If the 20th century taught us anything it surely ought to be that the greatest threat to human rights and liberties is embodied by massive socialistic states that espouse the highest of ideals. My equation is simple--the more the state grows, by definition the more my liberties shrink.
But this post is not to debate the pros and cons of government run health care. It is to highlight the furtherance of the state-sponsored death agenda that is written into the very language of this bill. By the way, most representatives who are supporting this bill confess they have not read it. Some House leaders have even suggested that reading it would be a waste of time. This should set off massive warnings that our system of representative democracy is very near a total breakdown. When our elected officials state that reading the very pieces of legislation that will massively overhaul the country is a waste of time, how are we to respond but in outrage? Yet despite not reading the bill, these same legislators go on various media outlets stating that it is absolutely urgent that this bill be passed immediately.
But here is the heart of what I want to share with you. Concerned citizens have begun to do what the legislators have scoffed at doing--they are reading the bill. And I want to highlight just one of dozens of things about this bill that terrify me. Pages 425-430 of this 1018 page bill speak about end-of-life issues. the government will mandate 'Advance (Death) Care Planning' (p. 425). The government will instruct and consult regarding living wills and mandatory powers of attorney (p. 425). The government will provide an approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death and mandating a program that will give the government a say in how your life ends (p. 427). An 'advance care consultation' will be used frequently as the patients health deteriorates and may include an ORDER for end of life plans (p. 429). The government will specify which doctors can write an end of life order (p. 429). And the government will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life (p.430). (You can check this out for yourself on Congressman John Larson's website--the entire 1018 pages are there in a pdf file.)
What the above sections of the law does is give a government bureaucracy the power over the end of your life--or the life of your parents. This is euthanasia--either incrementally or passively or paving the way for active euthanasia. HEAR THIS--THE ABOVE PORTIONS OF THE LAW DO GIVE THE GOVERNMENT THE AUTHORITY TO EFFECTIVELY DETERMINE WHO LIVES AND WHO DIES. I have quoted sections of the very bill that House leaders and the President are actively seeking to rush through Congress.
Let me say one other thing that makes the above so insidious. Those in favor of this bill are all over the media and junketing around the country telling us that we will be able to keep our doctors and our private health insurance, should we so desire. But other provisions of the bill make these promises to be empty. This bill is written in a way that businesses and individuals who do not participate in the public (government) option health plan will be severely taxed and ultimately mandated to enroll in the public option. When private companies have to compete against the government they always lose--because the government does not have to turn a profit to stay in business. Yet our elected leaders are promising us things that they know are flowery fictions, while they seek to rush this measure through without adequate debate.
I have not even mentioned how the government taking over the health care system will be the tipping point from a market driven economy to a state-run managed economy, because the percentage of our economy that is related to health care is so great. That is also in the balance. But that is another legitimate debate that is philosophical in nature--one about which good people can disagree.
But the alarm I raise in this post is about an evil agenda of euthanasia written into the very language of this proposed legislation that leaders of Congress and the President are selling us under the guise of reform and cost control and providing health care for those who do not have access to it.
It is time to pray and advocate for life and against this evil measure.
RM
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