President Obama at a Sept. 17 health-care rally. (Reuters)
In this article, EWTN’s director of communications, Michelle Laque Johnson, offers two simple and easy-to-follow principles that, if followed, could easily assuage pro-life concerns about President Barack Obama’s health-care reform initiative.
Here they are:
Principle No. 1: Legislation must be written clearly so that there is absolutely no ambiguity about what Congress intends.
Principle No. 2: Those who are writing the legislation and/or explaining it to the American people must tell the truth about what is in the bill.
It’s hard to see why anyone who is being honest and upfront about their objectives in the health-care reform debate would object to adopting Johnson’s pair of principles. But when it comes to concerns raised by pro-life advocates about possible funding of services related to abortion or euthanasia, neither Obama nor the congressional Democrat leadership have been willing to adhere to these principles.
Why not? No one knows for sure. But given this obfuscation, Obama and the congressional Democrats shouldn’t be surprised their health-care reform plan continues to face stiff resistance from Americans who understandably want to know exactly what will be included in the plan.
As Johnson says,
It is not impossible for Americans to agree about universal health care. What remains to be seen is whether lawmakers are willing to explain to the American people — both in their legislation and in their public statement — what they really mean.
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Congress never puts forward a “simple” bill that even all members of Congress can understand. This is so that Members can hide their own pork and own political agenda within each bill. They also trade - you vote for my pork bill, and I’ll vote for yours.
Let us not forget that the majority of Congress had not even read the House Health Care Bill before voting on it.
Socialised medicine (universal health care) is very dangerous since the government would decide what is best for the individual - and thus make the decisions on behalf of the individual which violates the Church requirement of “SUBSIDIARITY”. (CCC-1883, 1885, 1894 and 2209.)
Also after several years of socialized medicine in England they are now proposing to cut many needed health care requirements of the sick and elderly under the guise of cost cutting.
“Axe Falls on NHS Services”
On July 24 it was reported in England that as cost cutting measures in their socialized health care system, England is expected to cut and ration the following:
Palliative care for cancer patients; reduction in medical beds for the mentally ill; hip and knee replacements; cataract surgery; closure of nursing homes for the elderly; cost cutting programs in pediatrics and maternity.
This is what socialized universal government medicine does.
In the Netherlands, they don’t want the cost of palliative care etc., so they encourage doctors to perform euthanasia - many times without patient knowledge or permission.
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