The Terri Shiavo thing really upset me terribly. I still can’t get her out of my mind sometimes. Of course, she’s home now.
What are people saying about money? Is it that they don’t want to pay? We are pretty selfish, aren’t we? I have to confess that a lot - we have a lot here in the U.S. and we often forget our admonition to take care of the widow, the orphan and so on.
Of course, and here I go again beating my little drum, I think that our man-made institutions put into place by government are just terrible horrible crude imitations of what we could all really do if we put compassion into the hands of the people and took it out of the government’s control. Did you ever read Marvin Olasky’s book “Compassion in America?” It is excellent. The two best points he made (in my op) is that once we remove the human equation of “me giving to you” we take away two important components - the good feelings I receive because I am doing a good thing by helping another and the gratitude that should be coming from the receiver because he can directly see the sacrifice made. When government steps in, it’s like this giant anonymous corporation where nobody is accountable. If you give me food b/c I am hungry, and I see that you yourself don’t even have a lot of food, shouldn’t I feel thankful? And of course, if I think the government is going to “care” for people, I might not give of my own self through my church or other venues. Of course, this has all been taken away in our present system.
Sorry to go on about this but I do think this is part of our problem today.
I think that government should not be involved in healthcare. I believe that charity can do it better. Local charities know where the true need is, not some bureaucrat in DC. And good charities are more responsible with money.
Yes. And that the government will use this kind of story to usher in socialized medicine.