Given President Obama’s push to suck another $634 billion out of us – just for starters – in order to radically change the health care system (in conjunction with the damage Porkulus will do to it) I’m reposting War is peace, freedom is slavery, single-payer healthcare is free.
In the original post, a commenter tried to make the argument that we are biblically called to provide healthcare, because God requires us to care for the sick and the destitute. Yes, individual Christians are called to do so. But at the governmental level, such policies represent an attack which substantially weakens the church.
Additionally, President Obama’s new plan reportedly includes cuts in care for the elderly; or at least, requires that less money be spent on care for the elderly. Does anyone think that when less money is made available, that the level of care will continue exactly as it is? End of life care is expensive. We have an awful lot of Baby Boomers who are beginning to approach the end of their lives. There are more Boomers than there are people to support them, in fact. But rather than have the government arbitrarily decide what care is going to be paid for – and therefore made available – why not educate families to make those decisions for themselves? We do need to have, as Pope Benedict suggested, “the grace to accept, without fear or bitterness, to leave this world at the hour chosen by God.” The Engage With Grace project is intended to trigger those discussions, to get people thinking about death, about what “life support” means to them, figuring out what we want and communicating it to our loved ones. But those are choices. Not a system wherein the government pays for your healthcare and decides what you shall and shall NOT be eligible to receive.
There is no such thing as “free” health care in the sense that somebody, somewhere pays. Whether out of pocket, or via tax deductions, it all has to be paid for. But when you choose “free” as in, not paid for out of pocket, you stop being free to choose for yourself and your loved ones what you want. “Free” simply doesn’t exist. Even our salvation had to be paid for by Jesus’ suffering and death. Nothing in this world is free, and it behooves us to remember it.
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’ – Ronald Reagan
Is “I’m from the government and I’m here to heal you” any more reassuring?
In order to be really amusing, a joke has to be truthful. Something we recognize and relate to. And that’s why that Reagan quote is so famous. We know it’s terrifying when the government inserts itself into our lives. And yet, at some level we invite that interference and welcome it – or we wouldn’t tolerate the socialist creep occurring at all levels of government, and we wouldn’t consider “universal health care” for even a moment. It sounds so reassuring, doesn’t it? “Universal health care.” Universal – it’s for everyone! Health – hey, who doesn’t want health? Care – I have a warm, fuzzy feeling, don’t you?
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?… The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact, there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
- George Orwell, 1984
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, single-payer healthcare is free. The very name, “single-payer healthcare” is one of the best modern examples of Newspeak I’ve ever heard. It’s not “single-payer.” Everybody pays. Whether they use it or not. And it’s not “healthcare.” It’s healthcare rationing. Kevin, MD posts often on the lunacy that is “universal health care” or a single-payer system such as those used by Britain and Canada. And it is lunacy to give the government control of how and when we see a doctor.
As I have repeatedly stated, there are problems with our healthcare system. Some of them inexcusable. However, the single-payer solution that Moore proposes simply would exchange what we have for a whole new set of problems that may be even worse. …
[Michael Moore] blames all of the industry’s bad behavior on the profit motive. But one of his biggest villains – Kaiser Permanante – is a nonprofit. And while he does a gut-wrenching segment on Los Angeles hospitals dumping homeless patients back on the street after they are treated, he mentions only in passing that one of the guilty parties is a public hospital owned by the government. Aren’t those the same people he wants to put in charge of all of our health care?
The Orwellian influence doesn’t just stop with the name. The media and certain politicians (an unofficial Ministry of Truth?) are hard at work on this issue, evidently to gin up business for the Ministry of Plenty who will be deciding whether or when your child’s tonsils come out or he gets tubes in his ears. So what if your child has a perpetually sore throat or chronic ear infections? It’s free, isn’t it? The wisdom of Judge Smails will be enforced: “You’ll get nothing and like it!”
The worst part is that the “crisis” of the 45 million uninsured in this country isn’t a crisis at all. It’s completely manufactured:
Say it with me: War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, single-payer healthcare is free.
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