I’m not sure I need to remind anyone of this but if we don’t let Republicans run state Government, and don’t elect Republicans to Washington, no one steps up to stop Obama Care. The Federal health care-control apparatus, already a leviathan at the doorway, comes crashing in to our lives, never likely to leave. There will be no going back, only tinkering with the tentacles. Democrats want this, embrace it, and even encourage it.
And while they insist, honestly or not, that they are not trying to control life and death, this naivete can and will become our worst nightmare.
Right now, in the UK, health costs are so out of hand that the government is giving Hospitals incentives to cut costs…by hurrying people toward their own deaths. The government is rewarding care providers with money if they encourage a pathway to death for anyone deemed ‘terminally ill.’
Terminally ill. Would you want your government deciding what that means? Are we not all terminally ill? Life is a terminal condition. Death comes to all of us in time. Only government is so bold to presume it can care for everyone without making it cost too much. So why would you want them defining who should live or die? And yet, they always discover that they must.
They must find people (moms, dads, siblings, friends, and more likely granny) who look as if they might die sooner rather than later, people who could be considered a potential future burden to the bottom line, propagandize them, their families, and the public with the idea that they deserve to die with dignity…and then cross them off the balance sheet as quickly as can be managed regardless of how long they might still live or what contributions they might make before then. The State gets to define both the value of continued life and what any person might call a dignified death? Did they see this coming when they voted for Nationalized Health Care? Did the people being asked to die even get a vote?
And now its all up to bean counters.
Bean counters, you realize, do not know you from Adam. They don’t have compassion, just beans to count. Not even Human Beans. Just beans. So millions in the UK will essentially be euthanized to cut costs and hospitals will get a share of the savings for having encouraged it. Nothing tyrannical about that. It’s not a death panel, right. It’s end of life planning. Dying with dignity. Now hurry up and get with the program we’ve got a budget problem to solve.
Closer to home–at the other end of life–we have a story from Nevada. A mentally disabled woman, a ward of the state in the care of her own parents, is pregnant. The woman would like to carry the baby to term and the parents have lined up several families willing to adopt. They’ve got doctors and have done all they can to make sure mom and baby have the best care. Hurray for personal initiative, yes? But wait.
…when Washoe County Social Services became aware of Elisa’s pregnancy, the department issued an informal report requesting that the Court set a status hearing to address the potential health effects Elisa’s pregnancy could have on her and her unborn child, and possibly override the mutual decision made between Elisa and her parents to have her baby.
So screw the mother, her parents, her doctors and the potential adoptive parents, all of whom know the risks….the bureaucrats want a judge to decide if this child should be allowed to live. That’s in Nevada, not the UK.
This is another warning. Once fully implemented the leviathan of state run health care will be too intrusive and too hot a topic to approach. The politicians will just poke at the beast to appear busy. You wont elect anyone to do anything meaningful but blame the unaccountable boards and bureaucrats who will run Government health care in the United States. Bureaucrats and judges. No one accountable.
You have to stop it now.
November 6th, 2012 is your last chance. Obam-Care is a hurricane that will wreak havoc on us for generations, one that has not met one single promise to date, and in fact has failed to come even close.
New Hampshire Democrats won’t stand up and stop it. “Fee” Staters like Maggie Hassan tried to pass something like it right here in the Granite State. If the Feds can’t roll it back, slow it down, or repeal it, he only thing between us and government mis-run health care is New Hampshire State Government. The State can refuse to comply. The state can act to nullify the intrusive taxes, fees, rules and ill affects.
But to have that protection we need a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and a Republican governor and Executive Council. No other configuration prevents the creepy costs and tyranny of Obama-Care and its massive cost and tax burden from bearing down on New Hampshire residents.
‘Fee” State Democrats will not stand up to it. They will embrace it, all the costs, all the taxes and fees, all the strings, with open arms.
To stop Obama Care you have to vote Republican. There is no other choice.
