Exponential increase in cost to stay alive

[Ridgerunner]

And do YOU realize that our society is one presidential pen signature away from effectively banning faithful catholics from practicing as doctors?

You think I’m paranoid, don’t you? I’m not. This is precisely what has ALREADY happened here in Illinois to the profession of pharmacists. In IL if a pharmacist refuses to fill a prescription for an abortion inducing drug, the IL board of professional regulation will fine him and strip him of his professional license. Know how this came about? Executive order of the governor. No votes, no referendums.

The exact same power now lies in the presidency courtesy of the Obamacare legislation. All it would take is a new HHS mandate that no doctor may refuse to prescribe FDA-legal medications on conscience grounds (i.e. no physical contra-indications) to force catholic doctors to either betray their faith or depart the profession. Tell the pharmacists that it could never happen, I dare you.

If Obama wins in 2012, we’ll be seeing a lot worse stuff than what we have seen so far. When a president is consistently anti-Catholic every time he gets a chance to be, with an election coming up, he’ll be ten times worse if he’s reelected.

 

[cornbread_r2]

I think you missed the entire point. The point was that government health care will have to lead to what is essentially “death panels”. You only have so much money and your going to have decide how much each drug is going to cost people. Another poster has been pointing out that its ridiculous that the government is going to make contraceptives free, but still require her to pay a $100 co-pay through Medicare for her insulin that she needs to survive. These are the kinds of cost decision the government is going to be making that have a direct effect on what people can and cannot afford. Its what you get in a “one-size-fits all” policy.

You can’t point to the UK as a good example of anything considering they are forecasting that they will be in 15 trillion dollars of debt by 2015. That’s an incredible sum as well when compared to the U.S debt considering our GDP is over 6 times that of Brittain.

If “missing the point” means not wanting to argue about Planned Parenthood, pregnancy counseling, Democrats – and now rationing, contraceptives and England too – then I plead guilty. My point was in reference to the OP.

And do YOU realize that our society is one presidential pen signature away from effectively banning faithful catholics from practicing as doctors?

You think I’m paranoid, don’t you? I’m not. This is precisely what has ALREADY happened here in Illinois to the profession of pharmacists. In IL if a pharmacist refuses to fill a prescription for an abortion inducing drug, the IL board of professional regulation will fine him and strip him of his professional license. Know how this came about? Executive order of the governor. No votes, no referendums.

The exact same power now lies in the presidency courtesy of the Obamacare legislation. All it would take is a new HHS mandate that no doctor may refuse to prescribe FDA-legal medications on conscience grounds (i.e. no physical contra-indications) to force catholic doctors to either betray their faith or depart the profession. Tell the pharmacists that it could never happen, I dare you.

Since you didn’t provide a citation I’m not sure which law you’re referring to, but a similar Illinois law was struck down in April of 2011. Again, I don’t see what this has to do with my response to the OP, i.e. voluntary end-of-life counseling and planning is a rational first step in getting a handle on rapidly increasing health care costs and that atheists, despite their lack of belief in an afterlife, were not responsible for scuttling that provision when it was last proposed.