Just wait until the November elections. We've all heard it. But what does it mean? Is it just a talking point Republicans are using to continue the fight against the recently passed healthcare bill? Or are the November elections an event so critical to our country that it is in our best interest to keep focus on that vote and ensure that Republicans win back a significant number of seats in both the House and the Senate?
Government control is a dangerous thing. Even before it has escalated to full-blown socialism, it invades the most personal parts of people's lives, where government should not be involved at all.
For example, Germany is supposed to be a democracy like the US. They are not even supposed to be a socialist country, yet their government is in full control of the nation's school system. By law in Germany, parents are given next-to-no school choice. They are required to send their children to public school...period. In fact, one German family chose to home school their children because they disagreed with some of the curriculum in the public school. As a result, they were fined and police came to their house to force their children to attend the public, government-run school, instead of the school the parents thought best for their children. Ultimately, this family sought political asylum in the United States so that they did not lose custody of their children to the German government.
The German government - supposed democracy or not - has taken enough control of its citizens to dictate on issues that should be the choices of each individual (such as parents choosing how to educate their children), instead of protecting these rights as the fundamental freedoms they are.
The new healthcare bill signed into law by President Obama is very similar in principle, but should be the cause of even graver concern.
Once the new law is enacted, our government will be in control of our entire healthcare system. Our government will hold the power to dictate all of our healthcare choices - choices inherently those of each individual. The government will go as far as to fund abortion coverage with taxpayer money and to ration and distribute care and medication. These decisions will be based not on the lives of the People, but on money; and anyone who does not purchase an insurance policy that is deemed acceptable by a panel of Washington elite will be penalized.
For example, my father is a small business owner and has a high-deductable, catastophic insurance plan that he has used for over ten years. Under the new healthcare law, this plan will not be acceptable, and he will be forced to purchase a plan that the government deems "best for him."
Clearly, this is a violation of the basic rights of a Free People, and is arguably unconstitutional as well. However, the most dangerous part of this new law is ironically the feature Democrats trumpeted as its greatest asset: health insurance for everyone. Under this mandate, every person is required to purchase healthcare coverage, whether they want it or not. Those who cannot afford a plan will be given tax credits to cover the cost and those with pre-existing conditions cannot be denied.
This kind of entitlement program is unchartered waters for our country. What are the consequences?
Once the law is in full effect, it will become engrained in people's systems. People will lose the desire to fight it, to be independent, to make their own choices, because entitlements are addictive - once people feel they are "taken care of," their desire to be responsible for themselves will be completely obliterated. This is not how our country was founded, nor is it how we have become the greatest nation in the world.
The American People have said, loud and clear, that this is not the direction we want for our country, and it is still in our power to make our opinions count. This law must be repealed before it has taken full effect. It must be killed before it takes hold, because once it is in place, nobody will want to live without it, whatever the cost in blood, freedom, and money. November is our chance to ensure that our Congress listens to what we want and represents the views of the People who hired them.
Or else, as Benjamin Franklin said, "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
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