One more crisis up for grabs.  Life is just one big crisis to some folks I guess.  Recently I have spent an inordinate amount of time opining about various elements of the health care debacle  - not alone I might add.  It’s anybody’s guess just how much editorial and commentary space, not to mention broadcast time has been taken up reporting on and trying to flesh out, (and flush) alternative opinions on what should be done to provide the most people with health care in this country. 

Rush Limbaugh reminds us almost daily that health care is not for the healthy among us – it is for the sick.  Therefore, if it is “costing too much” to take care of the sick the way it is now, some of the sick will have to be sacrificed.  Enter the discussion of “death panels.”  While pro-government health care reformers will deny to their dieing breath that the slide toward nationalized health care will ever embrace such an idea that an outside entity or “panel” could decide who lives and who dies, common sense bares it to the bone and facts bear it out as veritas on steroids.

The fact that such practice already exists in reality and in previous legislation is a point missed in this attempt to keep some options open from becoming absolutely mandated.  (Please check out what Dr. Dave Janda had to say on the current legislation and that already passed and signed into law under the guise of “stimulus.”)  The biggest point missed, though, is that government belongs anywhere in the decision making of individuals about medical treatment.  That point was missed a long, long time ago.  Truth is that government doesn’t belong in many of the places we find it lurking. 

Medicare is a government animal that has consumed private wealth in huge amounts for over forty years.  It has always been a party to the death panel idea.  It was born during the most productive time of arguably the most productive society – the “baby boomers” coming of age after the “productive” efforts of their parents.  Since there were more producers than consumers of health care dollars, I guess most folks thought Medicare and its predecessor, Social Security, were very good ideas.  Too bad these ideas weren’t aborted before they could tumble from the womb of socialism and scream their way into mainstream American culture, all the while demanding more than they would ever be able to give.

Now that the worm is turning and that “productive society” is slipping into the receiving position, we find a sick society addicted to the drug of irresponsibility championed by power hungry bureaucrats.  Productive dollars can no longer keep up with unproductive demands.  But baby boomers have memories, and they remember all those productive years when they were coerced into feeding the system of irresponsibility with their responsibly earned dollars.  It doesn’t sit well with them that fewer – not more choices will be available to them in their future sickness.  They would have gladly bought what they wanted had so much of their wealth not been confiscated by a government telling them that it knew best. 

That same government that knew best has not only confiscated too much in taxes and “federal insurance premiums” (FICA) over the years, but it has seen to it that property of all sorts is devalued.  Real estate, stocks, private investments have seen their value diminished or in too many cases evaporated by the time the productive investors were depending on the security they were supposed to provide.  But by doggies, they still have their Social Security and Medicare the government guaranteed them, huh?

Not happy with the power they have over old folks, now the ruling elite wants total power over all.  Enter nationalized, (a rose by any other name would still stink of socialism and fascism) health care.  It remains to be seen if the productive among us will successfully beat back this government animal.  It won’t be enough to simply beat this one back, though.  They will have to capture and kill, once and for all, the animal that thrives on irresponsibility, while it noses into every nook and cranny of individual existence, and promises not the freedom we are entitled to, but the chains of servitude that will destroy us.

Missing the point of the real crisis this time will leave us lost in the wilderness.  You want to “reform” something?  Reform government controls on freedom.  You do that by demolishing the IRS, Federal Reserve, infringements on the Bill Of Rights, and reshaping this representative government to actually represent us and not rule us.  Or don’t you believe in the Constitution any more? 

Recent related articles include, but are not limited to:

Double AHCA of 2009 – What’s in the House Health care bill?

Fixing This Limited Government – This is what it would take.

The Real Medical Crisis – The fact that this legislation is even being considered.

Fighting For a Child – Presently on the front page of my website here.