A Doctor's Take on the Health Care Legislation
Several essentials must be understood before a comprehensive repair of our broken health care system can be accomplished. The first and preeminent, is that our federal government has no constitutional jurisdiction to govern the delivery of healthcare to a free populace. What has been an enslaving entitlement over half a century has now become the instrument of deceptive coercion, forcing once-free Americans into an elitest idealism that mocks their liberties and freedoms and sacrifices them for the apparent convenience and "rights" already guaranteed by our Constitution. Many reasons account for this, including our failure to know and understand history--but that discussion is for another time.
The second factor in this conundrum is the oppressive regulatory stranglehold the taxation of our goods and services has upon us. Unless some comprehensive tax reform occurs, the domestics of our cultural and societal operations will morph into regimented, totalitarian despotism.
Thirdly, but of primary importance, is the insidious and subtle attack upon the patient/physician relationship that will turn into the overt and dominant control of medical decision-making. If medical practitioners continue to forfeit autonomy for license and acquiesce their responsibility for patient protection to ensure "a job", the esthetic of a free-enterprise medical masterpiece will be shredded into a mongrelized tabloid of a pernicious and political tyranny from which only revolution will free it. Unless this health care reform legislation is repealed, I believe medicine in America with its advantages, qualities, and unequaled excellence will die; and with it our country will die. This country, that has been in history, the most blessed, powerful, and prosperous will be a memory of the judgment of the righteous God who warns of the consequences of denial of His authority and of departure from His absolutes.
Added by a Friend of Dave Edwards for Congress
