The American spirit and the principles of a free market democracy may be lost if Congress pushes the wrong program for health care reform, the program the Obama Administration seems determine to lead us down. Why?
Public health has always been a government interest. However, the framers of our Constitution were deeply influenced by the thought that every individual has a ‘right of personal security’ which includes protection against acts that may harm personal health. This is a natural right to life which means that it does not come from government yet from “nature and nature’s God”. Our founders declared the purpose of government is not to create new rights but to secure preexisting natural rights to all persons, as to life in liberty and pursuit of happiness. The priority of protecting people’s health no more requires government to provide health care programs than their obligation to supply public housing. Government should secure these rights, but not as an obligation. Free markets have provided the opportunity for prosperity for all. Government should begin by looking to correct and making competitive free markets more effective.

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Our Founders hoped, in declaring America’s independence and writing our Constitution,  to secure human freedom. We were to govern ourselves in freedom as individuals and as citizens of this great nation. In America there was to be no class structure as in kings or nobles who ruled in Europe by a supposed higher right. In America, popular consent was to be the rule of law and power to govern Americans. The government’s role was limited to setting legal conditions for the people to act in freedom to achieve their God given potential. This required the cultivation of good character traits. As free citizens we must avoid becoming passive victims of government control. If we as free citizens assume the responsibility for our actions in both success and failure, then we develop great character with courage, industriousness and wisdom which directs us to the right path for prosperity.
If we fail to practice these fundamental habits, especially the virtue of wisdom and common sense then we lose the ability to sustain basic human qualities and sentiments. If we lack the habit of making right decisions about our well being and not accept the consequences of these decisions, then we become victims who passively serve those who rule. The rulers then take it upon themselves to define what they deem to be our needs. Have we become a society which will trade our liberty which requires this risk taking, self restraint and hard work for the desired security of a government control society? Our Founding Father’s risked their wholeness for a free market democracy to preserve the character of citizens and not become the designs of a European style servant of the government.
When they wrote the Constitution, health issues were left to the states and individuals. The Federal government entered into the health care arena in 1965 with the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid. These programs costs have always been underestimated. When Medicare began in 1966 the cost to the taxpayers was to be about $3 billion. However, the estimated cost of $12 billion by 1990 from the House Ways and Means Committee actually cost nine times as much, $107 billion. Then by 2006, Medicare reached $401 billion while Medicaid added another $309 billion for a total of $710 billion. This failure to control costs demonstrates why the Constitution leans towards resolution in the free market democracy and decentralized government. Shouldn’t we as citizens and our government learn from this proven history? Let us not forget the Medicare program is simply a complete utter failure, rife with fraud year after year after year. And, Congress is not authorized to set up, run or legislate in the area of medical health care, Go read Art. 1, Sec. 8 of the Constitution.
Yet, we as a county are being pushed into enacting a massive government managed healthcare program. This monopolized service is unfair to the American public while contradicting the principles of a free market democracy. This democratic plan is fiscally irresponsible and reckless. It will fail to control health care costs, skyrocket our growing debt and require massive taxing. It is nothing but another open ended entitlement program for some while putting the burden upon the wealthy, workers, seniors and our health care practitioners. It will do nothing but undermine the excellence of American health care. Surveys show 80% of the public is happy with their current arrangement. More importantly, this plan will expand the ever growing hand and reach of the government into the private lives of Americans. click here. This bureaucratic indifference replaces the compassionate decisions of loved ones under a free market system. It will end up in rationing. Once competing plans have been driven out, our government will dictate the care providers may offer. Regardless of what they tell you, it will move in this direction just based upon the history of both government ineffectiveness and fiscal irresponsibility. Under the system of free market, health care is administered by personal caregivers who allocate their own resources among competing producers. To have anything less is morally and politically abhorrent and denies the most basic human right.
Obama denies he wants to ration healthcare under this government run program. But years from now this rhetoric of rationing, like it or not it is the logical end. The problem of affordability will drive it in place. If we follow the path the Obama administration is dictating with the redistribution of wealth, our country will reach a point where the majority of citizens pay little or no taxes and become dependent on federal welfare. More people will have more government benefits which will also produce a loss of personal initiative. The great spirit of innovation, entrepreneurialism and the American character of risk taking will be smothered by government entitlement programs. Sadly, individual freedom cannot survive without it. American’s bear the responsibility of personal initiative with the great potential of risk and reward. This democratic system under which each person bears the responsibility for working to fulfill his and her potential, not by becoming passive victims indebted to our government for welfare.
So ask yourself, if this administration is concerned about our national debt and the burden for future generations, why do they want to create an entirely new entitlement that will be a staggering blow to our economy and rival the size and liabilities of Medicare? It is because this is not about healthcare but really about advancing their own ideologies. This nation was founded on the premise that unalienable rights were granted to all, not by government but by God.
Government health care is the first step toward leading America into a social welfare state. A government run health care monopoly will move us into a socialist system while disaffirming free market democracy. Don’t fool yourself it will result in nothing less.
The American Spirit has thrived for 200 years with the display of moral qualities which make it possible for us to live under self restraint and without dependency on government, yet with others in a community under God. Please let us all use the wisdom and common sense of our Founding Fathers and preserve America greatness. The last free society.

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