National Health Care

I am hoping that people will storm heaven and the Senate so that the health bill does not become law. It is unconstitutional, and immoral.

Where in the Constitution of the United States does it give the federal government the right to pay for, or oversee our healthcare? It does not.

Under the guise of giving everyone the "right" to health care, it will make us bow to government standards of care rather than deciding for ourselves what treatment we should receive. Look at the fiasco at Walter Reed Medical Center and ask yourself if you want to become one of the soldiers receiving sub-standard care because of lack of funds and poor management. It is just and right if I decide to forgo treatment for myself or a child because the risk or the cost or the chance of a positive outcome make a particular treatment extraordinary. It is quite another story if the government puts a value on my life because of my age or condition of health, and decides for me that I am not worthy of care. That'll slip us right into situational ethics. But wait!
I thought we were all "created equal"!

The solution to rising costs is to remove tax incentives to employers who give healthcare as a benefit to their employees, so that employment and insurance are separated. Next, remove all government mandates for insurance, and let people pick the plans that suit their incomes and needs, not the things the government says we need. I am Catholic. Why should my coverage have to include birth control, abortion, sterilization, tubal ligation, in vitro fertilization, or prescription drugs to "assist" me in ending my life? Next, let the universities determine who can be licensed to practice medicine. Next, let the pharmaceutical companies and health food stores be responsible for the safety and effectiveness of their own drugs and supplements. Let our healthcare be ruled once again by reputation, scholarship, pride in one's work, and charity to others in wanting what is best for them, not by government employees awarded their positions as political favors, or politicians with their socialist agendas.