(My Clovis News Journal column for July 20, 2012)
The "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act", that Orwellian edifice of Medical Marxism more commonly referred to as "ObamaCare", has been declared "legal". What a farce. It has nothing to do with protecting patients. It has nothing to do with making medical services affordable- unless you consider slavery an affordable alternative to paying for services and theft an affordable alternative to paying for products. It is also the opposite of care.
It abysmally "solves" a problem that would never have existed if not for government intervention in health care.
You have an absolute right to provide yourself with whatever health care you want and can obtain for yourself without coercion. You have a human right to use whatever kind of medication or procedures you want, over the objections of the FDA and DEA. However, your right doesn't create an obligation on anyone else to serve you or pay for your care on your behalf. No one has a right to force someone to do something for them beyond leaving them alone.
If you can read the Constitution you know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the federal government has no authority to interfere in the practice, or financing, of medicine. If it isn't specifically spelled out, the authority doesn't exist. It doesn't take a Supreme Court to find the truth; only to obscure it. The Supreme Court was never intended to be the final arbiter of whether or not a law was constitutional; that is your job and mine, but the Supreme Court illegally seized that power for themselves in the early years of the 19th century, and no one punished them for doing so. America has been paying the price ever since.
If you assume that the Constitution is the Alpha and the Omega of right and wrong where governing is concerned; that "legal" is the same thing as "right"; that the Supreme Court has the ultimate authority to decide whether a law is constitutional or not; that it is OK to dictate what people may do with their own property- even to the point of taking it from them against their will; if you allow things you know are wrong to be imposed on yourself or on others, then you should expect things like this to happen. You are a part of the problem.
America will probably survive ObamaCare. The USA may, too. However, if things like this continue to be allowed to be imposed, there will come a time when, unexpectedly and out of the blue, the next tiny straw will break the camel's back. Be prepared.
It abysmally "solves" a problem that would never have existed if not for government intervention in health care.
You have an absolute right to provide yourself with whatever health care you want and can obtain for yourself without coercion. You have a human right to use whatever kind of medication or procedures you want, over the objections of the FDA and DEA. However, your right doesn't create an obligation on anyone else to serve you or pay for your care on your behalf. No one has a right to force someone to do something for them beyond leaving them alone.
If you can read the Constitution you know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the federal government has no authority to interfere in the practice, or financing, of medicine. If it isn't specifically spelled out, the authority doesn't exist. It doesn't take a Supreme Court to find the truth; only to obscure it. The Supreme Court was never intended to be the final arbiter of whether or not a law was constitutional; that is your job and mine, but the Supreme Court illegally seized that power for themselves in the early years of the 19th century, and no one punished them for doing so. America has been paying the price ever since.
If you assume that the Constitution is the Alpha and the Omega of right and wrong where governing is concerned; that "legal" is the same thing as "right"; that the Supreme Court has the ultimate authority to decide whether a law is constitutional or not; that it is OK to dictate what people may do with their own property- even to the point of taking it from them against their will; if you allow things you know are wrong to be imposed on yourself or on others, then you should expect things like this to happen. You are a part of the problem.
America will probably survive ObamaCare. The USA may, too. However, if things like this continue to be allowed to be imposed, there will come a time when, unexpectedly and out of the blue, the next tiny straw will break the camel's back. Be prepared.
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