Socialist Intervention in the Private Sector is Not True Health Care Reform

American TFP ^ | 09/22/2009 | n/a

[Pyro7480]

The great controversy over health care reform is centered on concerns of countless Americans that proposed legislative changes will move the country yet one more step down the road toward State intervention and socialism.

This concern is well founded. For decades, the State at all levels and branches has increasingly absorbed the functions of the private sphere. It has weakened the social fabric of the nation by usurping many rights and privileges of individuals, families and businesses with excessive regulation and bureaucratic red tape....

Many Americans are now concerned that direct State intervention in health care will go yet farther and lead to the socialization of our economy....

Socialism is a utopian ideology that seeks to eliminate human selfishness by destroying individual freedom, private property and free enterprise. Socialists believe they can eliminate injustice by transferring responsibilities from individuals and families to the State. However, their efforts are tantamount to killing the patient to cure his illness.

By suppressing individual responsibility, socialism actually creates the greatest possible injustice because it destroys true liberty, which is every man’s freedom to decide for himself all matters that lie within his competence, to follow the course shown by his own reason, and to keep within the laws of morality and the dictates of justice and charity.

Socialism is anti-natural because it destroys man’s initiative — a fruit of his intellect and free will — which tends to manifest itself in everything he does. When the State replaces individual initiative, socialism’s totalitarian aspect enters with the inherent appearance of government and police repression that has been abundantly seen wherever it is implemented.

[Pyro7480]

Read the whole thing. It's very good.

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[murphE]

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[murphE]

“Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice and at the same time a grave evil and disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do. For every social activity ought of its very nature to furnish help to the members of the body social, and never destroy and absorb them.”

True Catholic "social justice", not the Marxism sold at "catholic" universities and certain religious orders.

[ELS]

Good find!

From the linked page: (Pope Benedict XVI, Encyclical Deus Caritas Est, Dec. 25, 2008, n. 28)

The date should be Dec. 25, 2005

(Off topic) P.S. I ended up going to St. Mary's on 9/13. Thanks for the info.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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[bamahead]

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