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age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25 year olds receive priority over 65 year olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years.” Some comfort. Some logic. Some values.
It is thus preordained that ObamaCare will ultimately go into cost-cutting mode, saving money by curtailing treatment. As frighteningly long and complex as the ObamaCare legislation is, Ashby warns the regulations promulgated under it could be vastly worse and give regulators enormous power to interpret the law and regulations. This is certainly consistent with our experience in the entire field of administrative law.
Ashby says that if that happens, regulatory czar Cass Sunstein would doubtlessly play a major role in crafting and administering the regulations and thus in controlling medical care. And how does Sunstein view “end of life care?” It should be no surprise, given Obama’s chosen cast of macabre characters, that Sunstein once wrote a paper for the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies in which he posited that human life varies in value, which is hardly a principle one would find in the Book of Genesis. It gets worse. Sunstein advocates the government employing “statistical methods that give preference to ‘quality-adjusted life years,’” as determined by the government. In Ashby’s words, “If the government decides the life is not worth living, it is the individual’s duty to die to free up welfare payments for the young and productive.” 65
Contrary to Obama’s claims, America has the best healthcare system in the world, with far fewer chronically uninsured than he says. If Obama truly wanted to reform the system and bring down costs, he would initiate a series of market-based reforms, such as those offered by conservative Republicans, including expanding health savings accounts, reducing costly government mandates and regulations, permitting health insurance purchases across state lines, amending the tax code’s discriminatory treatment militating in favor of employer provided healthcare, tort reform, and portability solutions. As Dr. David Gratzer wrote in his book The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care , “Capitalism is not the cause of America’s health-care problem. It is the cure.”
But instead of market-based reforms, Obama has forced through a system that will not ameliorate, but exacerbate the problems of access to care, choice, and quality. Finally, ObamaCare comprised more unsustainable spending on top of all the crushing debt our president has already lassoed onto our children. Nevertheless, he is determined to create a new entitlement to vastly expand the dependency class on whom he and other Democrats increasingly rely for their votes, their careers, and their resulting political power. What this is ultimately about is expanding government control—it’s about crimes against our liberties.
CONCLUSION
I n July 2010, I came across a heartbreaking post on Free Republic , a popular conservative forum visited by thousands upon thousands of patriots every day. The author wrote,
In the 55 years of my life as a proud citizen of the United States of America, this is the first time I’ve felt that a president of our country holds his fellow Americans and the United States in contempt. I don’t think I’ve ever felt such an overwhelming feeling of rejection as I do with this administration. It’s as though everything that I was raised so proudly to hold dear and true has been denigrated. Every single day we hear something else that is a slap in the face of every patriot. I pray that we will see relief in November because I know that I’m not the only American who feels the frustration. It is unimaginable to me what might happen if we cannot find some relief in November.
It seems to me these sentiments are now widely held in this country. My friends and acquaintances, and even
It is thus preordained that ObamaCare will ultimately go into cost-cutting mode, saving money by curtailing treatment. As frighteningly long and complex as the ObamaCare legislation is, Ashby warns the regulations promulgated under it could be vastly worse and give regulators enormous power to interpret the law and regulations. This is certainly consistent with our experience in the entire field of administrative law.
Ashby says that if that happens, regulatory czar Cass Sunstein would doubtlessly play a major role in crafting and administering the regulations and thus in controlling medical care. And how does Sunstein view “end of life care?” It should be no surprise, given Obama’s chosen cast of macabre characters, that Sunstein once wrote a paper for the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies in which he posited that human life varies in value, which is hardly a principle one would find in the Book of Genesis. It gets worse. Sunstein advocates the government employing “statistical methods that give preference to ‘quality-adjusted life years,’” as determined by the government. In Ashby’s words, “If the government decides the life is not worth living, it is the individual’s duty to die to free up welfare payments for the young and productive.” 65
Contrary to Obama’s claims, America has the best healthcare system in the world, with far fewer chronically uninsured than he says. If Obama truly wanted to reform the system and bring down costs, he would initiate a series of market-based reforms, such as those offered by conservative Republicans, including expanding health savings accounts, reducing costly government mandates and regulations, permitting health insurance purchases across state lines, amending the tax code’s discriminatory treatment militating in favor of employer provided healthcare, tort reform, and portability solutions. As Dr. David Gratzer wrote in his book The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care , “Capitalism is not the cause of America’s health-care problem. It is the cure.”
But instead of market-based reforms, Obama has forced through a system that will not ameliorate, but exacerbate the problems of access to care, choice, and quality. Finally, ObamaCare comprised more unsustainable spending on top of all the crushing debt our president has already lassoed onto our children. Nevertheless, he is determined to create a new entitlement to vastly expand the dependency class on whom he and other Democrats increasingly rely for their votes, their careers, and their resulting political power. What this is ultimately about is expanding government control—it’s about crimes against our liberties.
CONCLUSION
I n July 2010, I came across a heartbreaking post on Free Republic , a popular conservative forum visited by thousands upon thousands of patriots every day. The author wrote,
In the 55 years of my life as a proud citizen of the United States of America, this is the first time I’ve felt that a president of our country holds his fellow Americans and the United States in contempt. I don’t think I’ve ever felt such an overwhelming feeling of rejection as I do with this administration. It’s as though everything that I was raised so proudly to hold dear and true has been denigrated. Every single day we hear something else that is a slap in the face of every patriot. I pray that we will see relief in November because I know that I’m not the only American who feels the frustration. It is unimaginable to me what might happen if we cannot find some relief in November.
It seems to me these sentiments are now widely held in this country. My friends and acquaintances, and even
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