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Health care reform is clearly needed, but is big government really the best source of reform? As usual, government presents itself as the cultural balm to heal all wounds. In reality it has become the cultural bomb to wound all heels. The “heels” being the vast majority of the American citizenry that expects somebody else to provide for their health, education and welfare via the threat of government coercion.

As details of the health care reform bill are more widely disseminated, the more evident it becomes that it is a blatant attack on freedom of choice and genuine health care reform. As flawed as the U.S. Constitution is, it provides no authorization for the federal government to provide for the health of American citizens. Moreover, health care is not a service provided by civil government in the Bible.

The Crux of Socialized Medicine

Frederic Bastiat made this abundantly clear in his little classic, “The Law,” over 100 years ago. He first points out that the first and only purpose of the civil magistrate is to establish justice by applying the law to specific situations. Under the law no man is permitted to intrude upon the life, liberty or property of any other without incurring wrath and penalty.

But socialism turns the law on its head, abusing its power to confiscate the wealth and property of one for the benefit of another. Or as Barack Obama puts it, “Health care is a right, not a privilege.” By this means the law is perverted from a tool of justice to a tool of injustice.

“The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder…The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy.” -Frederic Bastiat

From this we conclude that government is totally out of its realm when it starts meddling in health care. Government cannot at the same protect private property and plunder private property. For government to go beyond enforcing laws against medical malpractice is to intrude on the right and responsibility of the church. Such actions invite the judgment of God.

The Cost of Socialized Medicine

As usual, government seeks to take advantage of the crisis as an opportunity to extend its control ever deeper into the private sector, trampling on liberty in the process. Here are just some of the threats associated with ObamaCare:

* Costs are estimated at a trillion dollars or more

* Doctors will flee the system, resulting in rationing of treatment

* It will require “end of life” counseling

* Abortions will be paid for with taxpayers’ money

* It will give free health care to illegal aliens

* It threatens to administer the death blow to an already faltering medical system

Government poses as the great protector of human health, when in reality government regulation suppresses discoveries that would optimize it. Conventional medicine slogs along groping for “the cure” to diseases that have long since been conquered by other modalities overseas. But because of restrictions, these innovations have been suppressed within our own borders.

This is in effect an attack on freedom of choice because it artificially restricts the number of choices available. Very often these are life and death decisions. If a technique falls outside the prevailing paradigm it is almost automatically rejected.

Medicine is a subset of science where this kind of prejudice has been operative for centuries. Only by a great upheaval are ineffective modes of theory and practice discarded. We saw this for example, in the Copernican Revolution, the Newtonian Revolution, and in Einstein’s Quantum Revolution. The latter has opened up exciting new vistas on the role that underlying energy fields play in human health.

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