Tyranny: Healthcare Reform Threat to Life, Liberty, and Property

Our healthcare system has many market characteristics in it, and this has allowed people the freedom necessary to build a system that although not perfect, has provided quality coverage to almost all Americans at a good price. And yet now Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and the Democrats in Congress want to change all of this and overhaul the system with this healthcare reform bill, and I am hear today to say that everyone should be against this plan.

There are problems in the system, and this plan does nothing to address those problems. It does not address the problem of portability. This Democrat plan does not address the issue of tort reform. It does not increase competition across state lines. Indeed, this healthcare plan that the Democrats are proposing does not do anything to advance the liberty and freedom and choices of the people of this great nation.

The Democrats healthcare plan is going to need my tax money to be put in place, and thus it does not increase the protection of my property from government, and recent reports and reviews by several groups in government and business have concluded that this healthcare plan will indeed end up costing most American’s more money in the end, further eroding my property.

The Democrat’s healthcare plan does not adequately address concerns for life either. The plan is going to create panels who will evaluate whether or not someone or something should be covered, and this may indeed put pressure on a government that wants to contain costs to not do everything in its power to protect the life of seniors in our society.

Nor does the plan adequately address concerns that taxpayer money and government support will not be used to support or encourage abortions. It is not hard to imagine that a government that is concerned with keeping down the costs of healthcare coverage may somehow with some policy push for the abortion of special needs children who will indeed be a great cost on a national healthcare system.

My objections to the Democrats healthcare plan are based on an understanding of what the proper role of government in our society should be, as written about by those great men who founded our nation. They wrote that the purpose of government is to protect my life, my liberty, and my property, and not to create vast bureaucracies of unelected officials who will control my life, my liberty, and my property.

Do not become blinded by anecdotal stories. Do not be fooled by rhetoric. Do not be misled by your own ambitions or desires. This proposal to gain more control over our health care by the Democrats is not about specifics, clauses, or numbers, although those are important to the debate. No, this issue is instead a fundamental question about freedom, life, and property in our nation.

I encourage everyone to support efforts to speak out against the Democrat’s healthcare proposal. Contact by email or phone your Congressmen, Senators, Governor, state officials, even county officials. Sing the song of freedom and liberty. Freedom and liberty are precious in this world, and are now under attack, not by evil people who seek your harm, but by people who through good intentions and intellectual reasoning would lead us into tyranny.