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Health care reform is clearly needed, but is big government really the best source of reform? As usual, government presents itself as the cultural balm to heal all wounds. In reality it has become the cultural bomb to wound all heels. The “heels” being the vast majority of the American citizenry that expects somebody else to provide for their health, education and welfare via the threat of government coercion.

The U.S. Constitution provides no authorization for the health care reform legislation enacted by the Federal government by devious means in the Spring of 2010. Nor does the Bible grant such coercive power to the civil magistrate. This law represents government abuse of power in a direct attack on the freedom of the individual.

The Crux of Socialized Medicine

The sole purpose of the law for protecting life, liberty and property was lucidly explained over 100 years ago by Frederic Bastiat in his little classic, “The Law.” According to Bastiat, it is the responsibility of civil government to ensure that this purpose is accomplished, no more and no less. To go beyond this it must deny this first principle.

As a nation drifts toward socialism the law is more and more twisted for the purpose of unjustly extracting money from one social class to give to another. “Health care is a right, not a privilege,” according to Barack Obama. The satisfaction of this “right” then justifies the legalized theft of property.

“The law has placed the collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others. It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder…The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy.” -Frederic Bastiat

Thus, the civil government has no business whatsoever meddling in the health care industry beyond a possible interest in preserving public health and safety. To go further than this is to usurp the role of God and his church, which is treason against the kingdom of God. God will not let this arrogance go unpunished.

The Cost of Socialized Medicine

A tyrannical government will look for opportunities to exploit crisis to impose its power on the private sector. As some in the Obama administration have put it, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Here are a few of the dangers that accompany the ObamaCare legislation:

* Costs are estimated at a trillion dollars or more

* Doctors will flee the system, resulting in rationing of treatment

* “End of life” counseling will result in more assisted suicide

* Abortions will be paid for with taxpayers’ money

* The door is left open for participation of illegal aliens

* An already shaky medical system will be pushed to the brink of insolvency

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of government run health care is that it inhibits the development of cutting edge breakthroughs in medical science. These include therapies that have proven themselves effective for years overseas as well as discoveries within the United States.

This is in effect an attack on freedom of choice because it artificially restricts the number of choices available. Very often these are life and death decisions. If a technique falls outside the prevailing paradigm it is almost automatically rejected.

Medicine is a subset of science where this kind of prejudice has been operative for centuries. Only by a great upheaval are ineffective modes of theory and practice discarded. We saw this for example, in the Copernican Revolution, the Newtonian Revolution, and in Einstein’s Quantum Revolution. The latter has opened up exciting new vistas on the role that underlying energy fields play in human health.

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Some have likened the skills of modern medicine to those of the “body & fender” auto-mechanic. They are pretty good at patching up a damaged exterior and making it look good, but are limited in their ability to deal effectively with a malfunctioning “engine.” Following is a brief summary of the problems inherent in the business model of health care that prevails in the United States.

Rejects Wholistic Medicine

The current system (2010) promotes a mechanistic view of the human body, which tends to treat a malfunctioning organ in isolation, much like the independent systems of an automobile. If a part is broken just fix or replace it using the Just In Time (JIT) distribution model.

There is a de-emphasis on nutrition and suppression of natural healing techniques that are far more effective than the chemical approach to health care. The natural healing approach uses natural substances (as presented in nature) to augment natural healing processes within the body.

Embraces Harmful Drug Therapy

Drugs are produced which alleviate or mask symptoms and do not address underlying causes of disease. Drugs promote an acidic condition in the body which leads to retraction of the disease and sets the stage for other problems. A misleading distinction between “good” and “bad” drugs is established in the public mind.

Drugs are usually accompanied by side-effects that are often worse than the symptom and the disease. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, July 26, 2000;284(4):483-5) has reported that Iatrogenic (doctor induced) death is the #3 killer of Americans. Every year there are over 100,000 deaths caused from the side effects of drugs prescribed by physicians.

Driven By Profit Motive

The American health insurance system exacerbates the problem by limiting coverage to the ineffective and expensive conventional treatments. This hampers the emergence of powerful breakthroughs that arise outside of mainstream medicine. Moreover, it forces everybody who has access to health insurance into the ineffectual system, which almost guarantees that they will develop serious degenerative disease.

The insurance system, which is supposed to protect Americans, instead shields them from the latest in medical innovation and improvement. The system encourages passivity and does little to motivate consumers to take control of their health.

Cost of treatment is driven up by billions spent on marketing the alleged benefits of drugs to the general public, but especially to doctors. The system has a vested interest in stifling leading-edge medical discoveries and maintaining a diseased condition that requires ongoing purchase of expensive drugs.

The net effect of these failures has increased health care costs astronomically and turned health care into a luxury that many cannot afford. Even the middle class is being stretched to the breaking point. This of course is an open invitation for government to intervene with “assistance” that only makes the problem worse in the long-run.

Please see other articles in this series on the three approaches to health care: 1) The Business Model, 2)The Government Model, and 3) The Biblical Model.

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