Obamacare: It's Even Worse Than You Think

Weekly Standard ^ | August 3, 2009 | James C. Capretta & Yuval Levin

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One truth stands out in the Obama health care plan.

Whenever the left gets involved with directing the lives of people, lots of people die. Since this is the United States, don’t expect the camps or moving the cities to the countryside for everyone to grow rice. No, we’re Americans. We’ll just slowly and even compassionately murder our elderly, putting them up in sweet little bungalows while government-mandated health professionals guide them into the cold earth.

The theme of a compassionate genocide appears with the an early federally-managed program, the reservation. After all, we weren’t killing the Indians off, really - they got a nice little 40-acre spread in the Indian Territory, and slowly they’ll fade away. (I’ve lived on the res, too - a hellhole of government compassion and understanding for the Native American.) Then comes abortion, with nice lighting and counselors and a soothing touch, and the pregnancy is over. (Sadly, I’ve actually seen this.) Now our elderly - all done with that worried look in the eyes and the shrug of the shoulder about the inevitability of it all. Millions more will join the aborted every year, hidden behind well-kept homes and gardens. We’re not Nazis, for God’s sake.

My best guess about the next group of people who will be asked for an early farewell based on some unsavory characteristic will be the very young disabled, brain-damaged, or otherwise damaged people. Maybe give the child up to one year to decide whether or not the ability of society to support him or her equals what the child will bring to others. No doubt there will be counselors.

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