posted by Michael on 08/25/09

The most obvious problem with all this “health care reform” or “health insurance reform” stuff is that that there is no possible way the government can pay for it. Creating a commission of “health experts” to oversee Medicare might squeeze out a couple billion dollars of waste to help out, but that’s not much compared to the trillion required. “Spend more money.” That’s getting to be an awfully overused solution to a problem that didn’t really originate from a lack of money. The government can’t keep just giving everybody what they want.

But the deeper problem with the whole thing is more government control. I don’t want the government to force me to get insurance if I don’t want it. I don’t want the government to mandate what has to be covered. I don’t want an assigned doctor deciding what services I am to receive. If the government can mandate what’s in a basic care package, what will stop their intentions of mandating something that is morally wrong in the future?

We might need change: if people are going to get better care, we’re going to have to come up with more caring people; people who will follow their consciences and live by the Golden Rule that Christ gave us rather than a sole motivation for money. America, if we give Uncle Sam a grip on health care, we’re just making the hole in the dyke a little bigger once again. It is not wise to put your trust in man for help.

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