When the Dust Settles

It is hard to predict where things will stand with the Affordable Care Act, or that terribly ironically named disaster we've come to call Obamacare.

There's no longer any argument that Obama was ignorant, wildly exaggerating, or outright lying for those years leading up to now.  No, if you like your insurance, you may not keep it.  No, if you like your doctor, you might have to find another one.  No, the ACA will not drive your insurance cost down by $2,500 per year; instead it will grow dramatically.

Even though the financial outcomes were predictable from day one and are no surprise to anyone with a functioning brain, those were never the source of my major objections.

The ACA puts all medical decision-making into the hands of Kathleen Sebelius and a newly formed Independent Payment Advisory Board.  Democrats screamed bloody murder when Sarah Palin called that a "Death Panel".  But now we know that this board will make decisions on what procedures and treatments will be allowed by the Federal Government, which I think strongly suggests that the outcome of this unaccountable board of Obama cronies actually may soon prove to be indeed a Death Panel.

You see, that and so many other power-grabbing mandates in the act are what earned my strong objection to the ACA.  In effect, the government has stepped in between every physician and patient, making itself the final arbiter of our care.  Along the way, they will violate the privacy of every citizen by collecting deeply personal data about our habits, preferences, and vices.  Which seems to indicate that they are prepared to make value judgements regarding that information.  If that's the case, then who's to say they won't begin to say things like,

"Well, you smoked tobacco for 20 years, therefore you may not undergo that life-saving cardiac bypass."

"I see here that you're 60 pounds overweight.  Your overeating and unsufficient exercise have led to a stroke, therefore we will not authorize treatment."

Or what if it comes to this?

"We see here that you're an activist member of the Tea Party.  Since you're chosen to align yourself with this anti-government terrorist group, we will not support any medical attention now or in the future."

Think it won't come to that?  Given the IRS revelations of the last several months, I wouldn't put it past them.  I'll bet there are thousands of Lois Lerners in the HHS bureaucracy even now.

Worst of all is the anti-Christian mandate.  The government has essentially gone to Catholics throughout the country, whether they are health providers, college administrators, managers of charitable organizations, or even private business owners, and said, "You must provide free birth control drugs to all of your employees".

These are people who regard most artificial contraceptives as harmful.  Especially the abortifacient drugs, which will actually kill the fetus before it can plant itself in the uterus.  Despite Sebelius' claims to the contrary, that is a drug that kills a fetus, which by definition is an abortifacient.

So the Obama government has passed a law that effectively requires every citizen that owns or operates a business or charity in America to actively participate in bringing about the death of children while risking the health of women.  A positive link has already been proven between contraceptive drugs and breast cancer in women, so the government is also forcing Americans to give women who work for them drugs that significantly increase the probability they will contract breast cancer.

This is a fascist law from a fascist government.  America must not comply like sheep to this horrific tyranny.  Senators who won't support the House's efforts to overturn this horrible law are complicit in the destruction of the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.

There remains only a small glimmer of hope that the cadre of principled senators, led by Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, can overcome the fascist collaborators like John McCain and Lindsey Graham and free us all from this tyranny.