Did anyone notice that Jesus did not address those remarks to the Roman government, but to individuals whom He was speaking to? Charity is doing, not making someone else do or making your government do it for you. Governments that become the dispersers of health care will also someday be the dispersers of car insurance, because that’s expensive too. Then what? Diapers? Food? Clothing? Housing? Electricity? Water?
You can go to respectable, credentialed think tank web sites and review their numbers. There isn’t one of the above that has a single model of “free” health care for all working. It can’t, because we don’t have the resources to pay for it, we don’t have the medical professionals to staff it, and that means we have two options:
- Wait longer for it, if you ever get it
- Find a way to limit the care.
Yesterday in the news there was a story of a Congressman who thinks it’s a great idea to put a number, a dollar figure on health care for older people. After 85 or so, that’s it, you’ve lived your life, move on.
How many Catholics with their arms tight around this system are willing to look ahead and deal with that issue RIGHT NOW? Not many. Most of them quote Jesus and say it means we need to support Obamacare. Fine, but you better be prepared for things like curtailing premature natal care because that ONE little life isn’t worth the investment. Or grandma lived a long life, it’s time to let her die, even though we
could fix her bad artery, the amount of life for all that cost… well, someone in an office in Washington somewhere has stampped the form “REJECTED” so maybe you should stay close to grandma for the next few days.
I for one will not jump on a train I know is heading to a destination that will NOT respect life, no matter the immediate gain. That lady’s shoulder pain is not worth the loss of more infants at the hand of some bean-counter in D.C., or the loss of dignity and proper care for our aged. And I certainly wouldn’t let my compass for public policy be the irrational decision of a woman to shoot herself in order to get better care. I consider that like the 3 Stooges drilling more holes in a leaking boat to let the water “out.”