To Serve Man - The ObamaCare Disaster

The Baby Boomers understand the title. It is the title of the Hugo Award winning short story written by Damon Knight that Rod Serling turned into an unforgettable episode of the original Twilight Zone. Some apparently very well-intentioned aliens land on earth promising to help mankind; they revolutionize technology and they end famine, pestilence, war, and nuclear threat (though, let it be noted, they did nothing about climate change). Most people were thrilled with the aliens, though, as always, there were some skeptics. American cryptographers got a hold of a book that seemed popular with the aliens and attempted to decipher the aliens' language. At first, they were only able to translate the title of the book, To Serve Man, but even that was enough to convince the last of the skeptics. Soon, people were volunteering in droves to take trips to the aliens' planet which was said to be a paradise. As one flight of eager Earthlings was boarding one of the cryptographers came running up to the boarding area, telling the people to get off the ship. "To Serve Man is a cookbook!" he shouted.

I am not claiming the Obama Administration is lying to us about health care reform; they rarely pay we the people that much courtesy. What they are going to great lengths to do, however, is an enormous amount of obfuscation, inveigling, and shading of the truth. No one knows what the President envisions in term of health care reform; he has yet to enunciate it. On occasion he will take a stand on a specific point, but he is just as likely as not to alter his opinion within 72 hours. With a concept that fluid how can he justify his assertion that it will be too late if we don't pass Obamacare this year?

The President outsourced the crafting of health care reform to Congress. I have read that there are 4 or 5 bills currently wending their ways through various committees, but I have been unable to confirm that. Despite considerable communications with my federal representatives all I have received from them is multitudinous copies of the same form letters that merely state their positions on health care. I asked several questions about specific provisions of HR 3200, only one question per email mind you, and all I got was their position on health care reform. That even lacks empathy.

The President has contributed nothing to the substance of the health care reform bill(s), though he is spending millions of dollars to market the idea to the American people via commercials. Most Senators and Congresspeople have not read any of the bills out there, some even laugh at the suggestion that they do so, and they wonder why the American people are hostile at Town Hall meetings. Many on the Democrat side of the aisle have denounced, disrepected, dismissed and marginalized the people who are angry that their federal legislators haven't done the job they were hired to do. No one can tell us what health care reform involves, but the President wanted it passed in July without debate and our elected representatives suggest by their manner that we the people should just sit down, shut up and like it.

If this Health Care Reform is made law we'll be cooked alright.

Congressman Weiner says that health care is not a commodity. If health care is not a commodity then doctors and nurses are not free and sovereign citizens. If health care is a right then health care workers are slaves who must serve that right for the sick and injured. If health care is a basic human right, as Weiner says, then no health care worker can refuse to provide it, for any reason, because that would violate the patient's rights.

That means that the health care providers have no individual rights. The collective right of the people to get health care would supersede the provider's individual right to set their fees, their hours or change their occupational status or even decide how to apply their skills and knowledge. A collective right, by practical definition, is a state right because it supersedes the individual rights of others.

It may not be stated in any of the bills that patient's rights to care supersede a provider's right to set fees and hours etc, but it doesn't need to. Rights are always adjudicated in the courts. The legislation simply establishes the foundation for the courts to rule in favor of the patient's collective right to care.

Weiner’s view is collectivist, fascist and totalitarian. His view is the underlying philosophy of the entire Health Care Reform legislation the House and Senate have put forth. Consider the setting up of community watch dogs to monitor various health parameters of citizens in the Senate version of the bill. Look at pages 382 - 393.

TITLE I—QUALITY, AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS

Even the citizens themselves will be subject to state set regulations on their behavior in order to fulfill the human right of universal health care. How much clearer can it be that these bills abrogate the concept of individual rights?

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