Our health care debate has a few problems with consistency, abortion and end of life care. This past week the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted on the Stupak-Pitts amendment and passed it. Well, it passed for a short time until Chairman Henry Waxman brought the amendment back to the floor again for a re-vote and Tennessee Representative Bart Gordon changed his mind and voted the amendment down by a vote of 30 to 29.
The Stupak-Pitts amendment was designed to make sure private insurance plans were not mandated to provide abortion coverage. With the amendment being voted down after Waxman’s arm twisting it appears that our Health Care Reform will require private insurance to provide abortions. We should be expecting that position by this time but our health care endeavor also requires end of life counseling for everyone over 65 every five years.
Supposedly the end of life counseling is to give us the opportunity to understand Living Wills and the options we have if things become too burdensome on our lives. I think it is to convince us that spending money on our health care is a waste of resources. After all didn’t our President say we spend too much money on health care in the last two years of life?
National health care is sounding a lot like pre-World War II Germany. First they allowed abortion, then they permitted post birth abortion for all those children who had health concerns. Then they permitted withholding nutrition from toddlers who had mental dysfunctions. Then it was people over 65 who were not permitted to take jobs from the younger people, then it was withholding their health care. Then they came up with the final solution to their socialist problems, and they lived happily ever after.
Prior to being elected, the President was asked about abortion and his answer was that the answer was above his pay grade. Today there is no higher pay grade than his, and he chooses private abortions, publicly funded abortions and now plans to compel private insurance to provide abortions, but don’t stop there, health care should provide mandatory end of life counseling, too. I think it is time we all start taking responsibility.
This has been tried in other countries. Take a look at an article that tells one person’s experience with the Swiss end of life business. Daily Mail
