The best possible example of the kinds of conflicts that will increasingly undermine the US health care system if Obama’s bill passes is the effect of the federal government’s advice to women under 49 to abstain from mammograms. What may make sense from a national perspective that focuses on the need to control costs makes no sense from the perspective of a woman trying to avoid dying from breast cancer and her family.
Do the math. Medical literature basically agrees that mammogram screening for women aged 40-49 will save the lives of one woman for every 1900 screened. There are 21.9 million American women between those ages. That means that 11,500 women will die of breast cancer who would have lived had they been screened during those years.
To the bureaucrats in Washington, that may be an acceptable loss ratio. It may make no sense to those who will run our health care system to encourage women under 49 to have mammograms. But now we can always disregard their advice and pay for the procedure. However, if Obama’s program passes, the Federal Health Board will doubtless enforce the now advisory recommendation and ban mammograms for women from 40-49. Even if they pay for it themselves.
While we may disagree on when life begins - at conception or at birth - but we can all agree that it doesn’t end until death, much less in one’s 40s. The decision to condemn 11,500 women in their 40s to die of breast cancer smacks of euthanasia or worse. It has no place in our society.
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Though we can use the details of government ran health care plans, to show just how far off the beaten path many in our federal government have gone and how severe the need is to replace them, we must keep to the fact that any federal government ran health care is unconstitutional.
If someone broke into our homes to steal from us, we would not stand there and debate with them, what they could and couldn’t take or in which way they can and cannot carry out the job. We would call the police to get their rears out of our homes!
We would not debate with a would-be rapist, as to what he could and couldn’t do to us.
We would not debate with a murderer, on what method he could kill us by.
Why on earth, would we debate with Congress over what way they can go against the U.S. Constitution and take over our health care?
We must keep focused on the fact that it is all wrong to begin with! And we must use this to educate voters and to remove those people in government who are not upholding and defending the U.S. Constitution.
For those citizens, who do not appreciate and do not wish to defend the U.S. Constitution, we need to point them in the direction of Canada. Let them move to a country that allows for such a thing.
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