Is Our New Health Care Plan Tyrannical?

When considering the legislation recently passed by our Senate and House of Representatives concerning the proposed health care plan, I have been reminded of the following quote from C.S.Lewis –
“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.“

I like to think that the people who have voted for this plan are sincere in their desire to improve our present healthcare.  I hate to think they have been motivated in any other way.

However, if they truly think the plan is so good, why do they exclude themselves from being covered by it? They voted down two amendments that would have required the Congressmen and Senators to be under the same healthcare plan that want to impose on the rest of us.  WHY?

I am related to some Canadians and have friends who have experienced socialized medicine in european countries and they all have the same story.  The cost has skyrocketed and accounts for over half of their ever increasing taxes.  And at the same time, the quality of care has deteriorated.

One measure of concern is the fact that all Americans would be forced to pay for government sponsored abortions.  This is what is called “taxation without representation”, or the reason for the original tea party that preceeded the revolution against England.

Over half of our population is opposed to the murder of unborn babies.  Yet, the healthcare bills have ignored that fact and included that provision.   This would be forcing a so-called free people to not only to have a part in this genocide, inspite of their conscientious objection, but also force them to pay for it.

A concern on the other end of the life spectrum is the proposed “end-of-life counselling” to explain to people the financial and physical disadvantages of prolonging their lives.  In case they do not choose to end their lives, the doctor may decide for them, by denying them further medication.  Or haven’t you read of the massive reduction of funds for Medicare?

Even with those inhumane provisions, there is no real healthcare reform or improvement over our present care.  Instead of minimizing the possiblities for fraud that are present now in our healthcare, it would  increase those opportunities for the dishonest by having so many more government workers involved in the system.

We are told that we could still keep our present policies, but the language  in the bills is to the contrary.  And if we chose not to have coverage, we would have to pay a stiff penalty.   How can this be construed as freedom? Or American?

As Dick Armey so well stated it, “There is nothing more arrogant than a self- righteous income redistributer.”

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