Posted by
Dirk L. Hudson on Tuesday, December 01, 2009 9:47:42 PM
I oppose any bill that provides for government-controlled health care for the following reasons:
(1) It is totalitarian (as interfering with our individual self-determination) and contrary to our basic rights recognized in the Declaration of Independence (to "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness"),
- the right to life excludes tax-payer subsidized abortion (which would eventually arrive in any government-controlled health care plan, with or without the Stupak-Pitts language).
(2) It is unconstitutional (as going beyond the limited powers delegated to the federal government).
(3) It is undemocratic (as subordinating our health care to the whims of unelected bureaucrats, who arbitrarily assess the comparative value to the all-powerful State of a given citizen's life, and via "death panels" limit their access to future care);
(4) It is unequal (as exempting the politicians who impose this burden on their constituents while keeping their own health care plans).
(5) It is economically disasterous (as taking over one sixth of the economy, adding $6 trillion in costs over a ten year period and, via deficit spending, depriving future generations of a prosperous life-style).
(6) It is regressive in that it undermines the world's finest and most progressive health care system (by rationing medical care and depriving senior citizens of critical operations, by discouraging and decreasing supply of prospective future physicians, while increasing demand for trivial ailments, and it also would slow down medical research into new cures and treatments (as advocated by Obama's medical advisers).
(7) It is inherently corrupt (since it steals from the taxpayer and gives the loot to tax-subsidized parasites, and since expansion of government power vastly expands opportunities for bribery for monopolistic government favortism, e.g., as to preferred patients, as to preferred businesses contracting with the government for goods and seervices, as to preferred doctors, and as to preferred access to government jobs).