First Evidence of Gov’t Telling us How to Live in Obamacare
-By Warner Todd Huston
One of the things that those of us against government run healthcare systems are wary of most is the probability that government will begin to mandate how we are to live our lives. This assumption of power by government would mean a loss of our individual liberty and a corresponding theft of that liberty by government. Naturally, advocates of a single payer, socialistic healthcare system laugh off such worries and say “it’ll never happen here” — famous last words, of course.
Sparking such worries anew, Senator Chris Dodd (D, Conn.) recently said that it was entirely possible that the criminally troubled community group ACORN could likely qualify for funds from the Senate’s healthcare bill. But what ACORN might use those government funds for should alarm everyone.
Apparently the “Creating Healthier Communities” provision of the bill (found on page 382), would see grants awarded to state governments, local governments and groups that are members of a “national network of community-based organizations.”
And what does “Creating Healthier Communities” mean?
The grants are designed to fund groups that will “measure” people’s health-related behavior on the community level, including whether they are gaining or losing weight, eating the right foods, getting exercise, using tobacco, or engaging in other personal behaviors targeted for federal monitoring by the secretary of health and human services.
And what would this data be used for, one might wonder? Why, what else but to determine who should be allowed to have healthcare? After all, if you aren’t eating the “right” foods — according to government — if you aren’t exercising enough — again, according to the government — then why should the benevolence of the government be showered upon such an undeserving reprobate?
I suppose if you are so in love with President Obama that you don’t mind him telling you what food to eat, when or how to exercise, or if you are allowed to have a cigar or alcohol, nothing can be said that might deter you from handing over all your personal liberty to the nanny state. But realize that most of us are not eager to let Obama become our father and mother.
It must be realized that this “Creating Healthier Communities” provision is absolutely one of the ways by which government will decide who is worthy of receiving government healthcare. Further, whether Obama will admit it or not, there must come a time when such decisions are made on the federal level. As government takes over more and more control, more and more regulations, definitions and procedures will be crafted to govern the use of government money and some criteria will have to be found from which to base such decisions. There is really no way to avoid government telling us who is worthy enough to enjoy the benefit of government healthcare dollars and who will be sentenced to suffer and die. It is the only out come of government run healthcare.
And with this “Creating Healthier Communities” provision we are seeing the first signs of how that criterion will be created.
Finally, notice that doctors are not in the mix here. It will be Chris Dodd crafting a bill that will give power to ACORN to study a community’s health and then ACORN will report back to the Senate that will, then, decide who is allowed to get what healthcare based on other studies created by Congress.
None of this sounds like healthcare. It all sounds like politics.
(Cross Posted at HealthCareHorseRace.com)
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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on July 25, 2009 8:33 am
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“engaging in other personal behaviors targeted for federal monitoring”
THAT’S the statement by which each and every true-blooded American should be frightened.