Health care reform is clearly needed, but is big government really the best source of reform? As usual, government presents itself as the cultural balm to heal all wounds. In reality it has become the cultural bomb to wound all heels. The “heels” being the vast majority of the American citizenry that expects somebody else to provide for their health, education and welfare via the threat of government coercion.
Most legislators did not even read the so-called health care reform bill before imposing it on the public. But all freedom-loving Americans recognized at a glance the threat to liberty and true health care reform the new law entails. Neither the Bible nor the U.S. Constitution make any allowance for government involvement in health care whatsoever, let alone the massive intrusion of this legislation.
The Crux of Socialized Medicine
The sole purpose of the law for protecting life, liberty and property was lucidly explained over 100 years ago by Frederic Bastiat in his little classic, “The Law.” According to Bastiat, it is the responsibility of civil government to ensure that this purpose is accomplished, no more and no less. To go beyond this it must deny this first principle.
As a nation drifts toward socialism the law is more and more twisted for the purpose of unjustly extracting money from one social class to give to another. “Health care is a right, not a privilege,” according to Barack Obama. The satisfaction of this “right” then justifies the legalized theft of property.
“The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder…The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy.” -Frederic Bastiat
Government funded health care is a prime example of such legalized plunder, although the government may have a role in enforcing public health regulations. But when it comes to providing health care itself, the assumption is that no other societal institution can handle the task, least of all the church. God will surely judge a government that thereby perverts its fundamental responsibility to administer justice in His stead.
The Cost of Socialized Medicine
A tyrannical government will look for opportunities to exploit crisis to impose its power on the private sector. As some in the Obama administration have put it, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Here are a few of the dangers that accompany the ObamaCare legislation:
* It will cost more than a trillion dollars
* It will ration health care
* It will require “end of life” counseling
* Abortions will be paid for with taxpayers’ money
* Free health care will be provided to illegal aliens
* It will deliver the coup-de-grace to an already terminal medical system
Government poses as the great protector of human health, when in reality government regulation suppresses discoveries that would optimize it. Conventional medicine slogs along groping for “the cure” to diseases that have long since been conquered by other modalities overseas. But because of restrictions, these innovations have been suppressed within our own borders.
This is in effect an attack on freedom of choice because it artificially restricts the number of choices available. Very often these are life and death decisions. If a technique falls outside the prevailing paradigm it is almost automatically rejected.
Medicine, as a branch of science, is subject to the same prejudice that has hobbled science for centuries. Great paradigm shifts are required to at long last abandon outmoded theory that clings like a barnacle. We saw it in the Copernican Revolution, the Newtonian Revolution, and most recently in the Quantum Revolution. The latter has been accepted in theory. But there is still great resistance to medical application of the Human Body Field (HBF) – that field of quantum energy underlying the biochemistry of the body.
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