Healthcare is not a right that is given to you by the government. Healthcare is a personal choice. Our country is not run by people's feelings. Our country is governed by laws. The ultimate law of our country is the Constitution. You will not find anything about healthcare (or education, for that matter, but that's probably another post) in the Constitution. What you will find are 10 amendments that we call the Bill of Rights. These were added after the Constitution was written to ensure that the federal government would not trample people's rights. Like the right to choose healthcare. Number 10 of those amendments says,
There should not be debates about who's funding this, or end of life care, or rationing, or the demise of private health insurance. The debate should be that this is not something which the federal government should be proposing at all.The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Fix health care? I have 8 nieces and nephews whose births (and their mother's prenatal care) were all paid for by government healthcare. I have a friend who died from cancer whose healthcare bills were paid for by a private fund. every.penny. My father-in-law spent the last 5 years of his life on 100% VA health benefits. His widow is now on 100% VA healthcare. Every emergency room that I have ever walked into, and with three "real boys" you can bet that I have walked into a few, has a sign stating that no one will be turned away due to inability to pay. Fix what we already have.
OK, I think I got it out of my system. Now I can enjoy my testosterone-free weekend.
nope. AND another thing! I'm tired of the convenient mis-use of the command "Love your neighbor" as a pro-government funded, healthcare argument. Jesus was answering the question, "What is the greatest command?" He said that loving your neighbor was second, not number one. How bout if we're going to start quoting the Bible in the public arena, we quote all of it? Love the Lord God is the most important command.
Ok, I'll quit reading the news, (and Facebook) now.
2 comments:
Well said, ~C.
Fix what we have...make it better even...make sure vets are taken care of..so if people want guaranteed health care they can go serve in the military. We're supposed to trust the fed govt to run an even larger health care system when it doesn't do the others well. Oy.
Right ON!!!!
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