Obamacare: The Left’s Mor(t)al High Ground

NetRight Nation ^ | August 31, 2009 | Victor Morawski

[NetRight Nation]

Barack Obama has apparently now been advised to shift the ground in the debate over health care reform, to get it away from discussions about specific provisions in the pending legislation (whether it will force us to unplug grandma or use our tax dollars to pay for others' abortions) and get it onto a far loftier moral high ground.

This he did last weekend in a conference call to liberal clergy, urging them to endorse universal health care because of what he has decided is all part of the biblical injunction to "be our brother's keeper."

Ostensibly, many moral theories inform liberal thinking on health care reform. Yet, like different legs that all support the same table, these theories (Neo-Marxism, Liberation Theology, Utilitarianism, Rawl's Theory of Justice) make mall Obamacare apologists insist upon one moral imperative: The government must provide basic health services to all – as long as government alone has the power to determine who “all” includes.

The President’s key health care advisor, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, made this point very clearly when he argued in 1996 in the bioethics journal The Hastings Center Report that certain health services “should be considered basic and should be socially guaranteed.” But, then came the stinger: These, he averred, are those which enable our active and continued participation as productive members of society.

[a fool in paradise]

You MUST pay charitable taxes to the State because the Leftists’ vision of Jesus Christ demands it.

[SandWMan]

This has always been a tactic of the left. To get people to believe that it is not their own personal responsibility to do good, but it is the responsibility of government to do it for them. Why, how could you not want to help these poor unfortunate souls (using someone else’s coerced money)?

[TigersEye]

A ‘right to health care’ is a collective right. Collective rights are profoundly un-American.

[Spok]

I e-mailed Senator Patty Murray about my concerns with the reform bill, and got back a lengthy narrative (canned, I’m sure) on why we need to improve health care, without a single word in defense or justicication for the pending legislation. When they fall back on the ‘we need to do something’ argument, we need to point out that they won’t defend the bill because it’s indefensible!!

[chris_bdba]

Loer message Obama! It is not the moral high ground to deny elderly needed medical care. It is not the moral high ground to cut mediare in favor of giving illegal aliens health care. It is not the moral high ground for Congress and the excutive branch to not have to live under the same plan you have designed for everdya Americans. How would any Democrat know the moral high ground when they have no morals?