Years ago, I was all for national healthcare. I figured, like most Americans, that the US healthcare system was floundering about. Statistics showed that the US spent more money on healthcare per capita than any industrialized nation. Then I learned the government was the entity that bungled the healthcare industry to begin with. And then, when I saw what President Obama's healthcare mandate actually was (a merger between capitalist healthcare insurance companies and career government politicians, and not actual universal healthcare!), I became even more concerned.
It seems like that concern wasn't an off-the-wall conspiracy theory.
I became more aware of just how serious the "national healthcare" fiasco has become when I became aware that even the ACLU is upset over the Obama administration's utopian vision of purportedly free healthcare. We now know that the Democrat version of "universal healthcare" is an unholy alliance between moneyed business interests and government politicians.
To make matters hideously worse for anyone who is sane or rational, and supports equal protection under the law:
Obama himself has decided that abortions should not be subsidized under the plan for SOME patients, as part of the sweeping legislation, even after the motion was defeated by Congressional Democrats. Let's not even go into the abortion debate in this thread, but at least admit that either you are going to let women do it, or not, with national healthcare. However, as this becomes more and more of a fiasco that lines the pockets of big insurance companies and blood hungry politicians, we can see that Obama has intentionally denied abortion rights to people who are deemed, under the program, to be "at risk". This could include women with diabetes or other pre-existing conditions who probably have a actual health justification for having an abortion to begin with. Is Obama protecting the health insurance companies that he is now the de-facto Chairman of?
Not only is this healthcare insurance fiasco obscene, since pretty much everyone has realized that this just makes it compulsory to buy health insurance, and does not actually provide any kind of national fund to provide free health services to people, as in Europe, but more and more dirty details are coming out about this program and how it caters to big businesses.
It becomes clear that President Obaama has made his decree, and soon thousands of legal challenges are going to take place once the bill is fully enacted by 2012 due to a partial-abortion ban signed by a DEMOCRAT President:
https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?id=2493&cr=1&cr=1It begins to become clearer and clearer on a day-to-day basis that a government takeover of healthcare in this manner is not meant to improve health conditions or livelihoods of Americans as much as it is for those in positions of centralized power to make unconstitutional decisions that violate peoples civil rights at a federal level. After all, if a central government can control your access to health resources, especially in a government as large and coagulated with graft as the U.S. federal government, what prevents them from taking advantage of the situation for political purposes?
Well, the answer is, nothing, of course! So as we see here, the Obama administration, whether you support abortion or not, has already made the decision to apply discriminatory tactics towards women who have pre-existing medical problems; forcing them to carry a fetus to pregnancy even when they may die in the process. This act becomes a law. The decision is not made by the mother, father, family, the local community, a professional doctor, or even a lawyer. It is made by government bureaucrats.
So what do you think? Will Obama's healthcare scheme survive a day in a state or federal supreme court? Isn't it unconstitutional NOT to provide someone equal protection under the law? (14th amendment), irregardless of how you feel about abortion? That is why this type of government-sanctioned corporatism is going to destroy whatever progress we have made in healthcare, albeit very little.
I am reminded when I read about this topic of how it was not the free market that ruined healthcare in this country, but Nixon's support of HMO creation. Nixon was excited at the idea that HMO's would provide the least amount of care to generate the largest possible profit, and announced his sweeping healthcare reform in this area, literally, a day after hearing this from one of his advisers. Since then, backwater socialist countries run by military dictators have outsmarted the United States in providing great healthcare to their citizens at a fraction of the cost, all the while using the advanced methodologies that our doctors, in the USA, discovered under free market capitalism. That was before we let politicians destroy and manipulate that system.
Are people really that quick to trust the government in making decisions about their own bodies, or were they mislead in the spirit of "change"?
More than anything else, the writing is on the wall: Obama's version of universal healthcare is going to become a enormous civil rights issue, and possibly even human rights issue by the end of the decade.
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