Ed
Schultz, host of the Ed Show on MSNBC, spoke with a minister who opposes the
Affordable Health Care law (aka ObamaCare).
The minister argued that ObamaCare was costly and basically a bad deal
for America. Mr. Schultz told the
minister that millions of Americans who are currently uninsured will be
provided health insurance through ObamaCare.
He also pointed out that under ObamaCare no one can be denied insurance
because of pre-existing conditions. Then
Mr. Schultz asked the minister to make the moral case for denying insurance to
these currently uninsured people and to make the moral case
against ObamaCare. The minister's
response was weak. He seemed unprepared for the question. Here's how I think
the minister should have responded.
Mr.
Schultz is it moral to steal things from other people? Is it moral to use force
to make other people do what you want them to do against their will? Is it
moral to lie? Is a law that causes people to suffer and die needlessly moral? ObamaCare
is based on the immoral principles of force, theft, and dishonesty.
Health
care is a limited resource. Today we
have the best quality and the greatest quantity of health care on Earth right
here in the United States and it is available to everyone. Health care costs money and there is no way a person can know in advance just how expensive
it might be. Insurance is a service that is available to those who want to
insure their risk against these unknown future costs. Some people choose to buy insurance to reduce
their risk; some people do not wish to make this investment. Under ObamaCare
the government will use force to make everyone purchase insurance whether they
want to or not. Mr. Schultz it is not
right to make a person buy something that they do not want even if someone else
believes that that something is good for that person. Forcing another person to act against his or
her will is immoral.
Under ObamaCare
no one can be denied insurance for any reason including a pre-existing condition
therefore the cost of insurance will increase exponentially. ObamaCare empowers the government to impose
new taxes to subsidize the insurance companies and other special interests
to cover this cost gap. These are additional tax dollars that most Americans would rather keep
and use to support their families.
Taking money that taxpayers have earned with their own labor and giving that money to
government selected insurance companies and other special interests is nothing
short of theft. Mr. Schultz theft is
immoral.
Under ObamaCare,
“unlimited” amounts of health care will now be "free" to
millions of people who would previously have been expected to pay for those
limited resources. But there are not
enough doctors and other medical professionals to provide unlimited quantities
of health care to millions of people for free and there never will be. ObamaCare promises unlimited access to
limited resources. This promise is a lie that will hurt everyone, the poorest
among us most of all. Mr. Schultz, Lying
is immoral.
The
Affordable Health Care Act (ObamaCare) is a vast maze of government policies,
procedures, rules, restrictive regulations, and micro-controls that will be
anything but affordable. ObamaCare will
greatly increase the amount of waste and bureaucracy in all aspects of the
health care and insurance industries. ObamaCare is based on the economic
fantasy that a government bureaucrats can outperform a competitive market economy. No way.
The ObamaCare
bureaucracy will stifle innovation, drive costs up and reduce the quality,
quantity, and availability of health care resources in the United States. ObamaCare
is a bloated, costly, bureaucratic system designed to transform the world's
best health care system into something that looks a lot like the Department of
Motor Vehicles. Under the bureaucratic
morass that is ObamaCare millions will suffer and die as they wait for innovations that
never emerge, and millions more, mostly poor people, will stand in line for
years waiting for doctors that never became doctors because ObamaCare made it
unprofitable for them to do so. Under the ObamaCare bureaucracy people will suffer
and people will die who would not have suffered and would not have died had
this law based in economic fantasy never been imposed upon the American people.
Mr.
Schultz ObamaCare is immoral because it is based on the immoral principles of
force, theft, and dishonesty. For the sake of our nation and
especially for those less fortunate who will suffer the most, this immoral law
must be de-funded and overturned. Thank
you for having me on your show.
Mark
VanSchuyver
