Obamacare Will Take Away Your Children
Posted on August 12, 2009
-By Warner Todd Huston
Do you want government healthcare? OK, then you shouldn’t mind if the government comes knocking at your door to see if you are raising your child in the government approved manner, right? Well that is just another of the authoritarian provisions of Obamacare.
Former Hollywood tough guy and current conservative columnist Chuck Norris found another one of Obama’s little Chicago styled, thuggish provisions tucked into the House healthcare bill that should make everyone worry about government overreach.
In sections 440 and 1904 on page 838 of the House bill, government aggregates unto itself the right to invade the home of any citizen with minor children in order to institute “home visitation programs for families with young children and families expecting children.” The supposed goal is to “help” train parents in the government approved style of child rearing.
Now, you do understand what this means, don’t you? This means that if the government perfunctory that enters the home decides in her wisdom that the children in the home are not being raised in the government approved way, why then the Department of Children and Family Services will be called in to remove the children from the home. (Side note: I say “her” above because it will likely never be a male government employee in such a position. I am not violating the standard practice of using the male pronoun.)
With this “visitation” provision, we are setting up a situation where Obama will be invading parent’s homes and taking away their children.
Does it seem over-the-top of me to say that government intruders will fan out across the country, removing children from homes thanks to Obamacare? Are you rolling your eyes at what you consider my hyperbole?
Well, don’t.
Let us consider the facts here. If government employees charged with the health and welfare of children begin to “visit” homes across America and these government thugs see situations of which they do not approve, such as home schooling or religious practices they disagree with, then they will be obligated by law to inform on these recalcitrant parents.
Think about this. Wouldn’t a government employee be strung up by her neck should she ignore what could potentially be child abuse? Wouldn’t the Old Media go crazy if a child was found abused and it later came out that an Obamacare “visitation” service was performed at the home yet the abuse was ignored?
You bet it would. Such a government employee would find her face and name all over the media in a feeding frenzy of condemnation.
Of course, I am not talking here about great railroad cars loaded full of the nation’s children that have been ripped from their parent’s bosoms sent off to be warehoused in government camps. It will be nothing so blatant as that. But what will result is that parents will be fearful for their family every time an Obamacare operative comes knocking at the door for another government approved “help” session to begin. That will be nearly as bad. Parents will tremble at the fear that a government perfunctory will determine that they spy “abuse” when that front door opens.
The problem here is, who determines what “abuse” means? Well, the government thug sent into your home will, naturally. Real abuse need never have occurred for the full force of Obama’s jack-booted government officials to come down on a parent. Children will be summarily removed from the home on even the slightest suspicion that “abuse” has occurred.
And YOU will have voted for this to happen with your support of Obamacare.
(Cross posted on HealthcareHorseRace.com.)
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The town I live in has an organization called Parents As Teachers that does home visits. It is completely voluntary. They play educational games with your child and give you ideas on how to teach them basic skills. They also can give referrals to specific services (speech therapy, etc.) if needed. If this is what the purpose of this specific plan is, it won’t be bad. As long as it isn’t mandatory. If it is mandatory, I have a problem with it.
About this House bill: 1.The programs would be voluntary 2. a? number of states already have such programs, 3. this sort of legislation is introduced almost every year, and 4. Rep. Todd Platts (R-Penn.) sponsored a similar measure this year, H.R. 2667, the Early Support for Families Act. H.R. 2205, the Education Begins at Home Act of 2009, is cosponsored by Republicans Mike Castle (Del.), John McHugh (N.Y.), Vernon Ehlers (Mich.), and Thomas Petri (R-Wisc.) STOP MISLEADING THE PEOPLE.
I’ve linked to your post from Obamacare Page 838
Ask anybody who has had their children taken away based only on accusations, who never were able to show the accusations were false because the a 6th sence told the social worker the children need to be removed. Taking children away from loving parents is abuse!
Thank you for shining light on this issue.
This post is so good, that I wish I had written it. Thanks for writing it.
I read the bill and it does state voluntary. It also seems to leave it up to the states how to carry out the inspection and thus a state could outsource to private organizations. It also gives the states the power to opt out if they so choose. Overall it would probably be OK legislation if 1) We could afford it and 2) it was stand alone legislation.
There is no reason for it to be included in this Health Care legislation that I can see. That makes me suspicious that I might be missing something as I wonder what they are trying to hide.
It may say it is voluntary now, but that is to mislead the people. If this gets passed into law, it will become mandatory. That is how our government works. Tricking people into acceptance of a “voluntary” program. Makes people think they have a choice, when in reality, they don’t.
This will be a horrific adventure into ‘nazi-like’ life. The family I raised did just fine without socialworkers visiting to see what the kids were learning and what they were watching, and who they were praying to! Don’t even entertain the idea this will be okay if it is not voluntary: it will sign over all parental rights of your child rearing to the nanny state. WAKE UP CALL TO ALL OF YOU WHO STAND TO LOSE YOUR HOME PRIVACY!
Why does the federal government need to get involved in this? There are many states that have similar voluntary programs that aren’t bad, but the real problem with all these invasive programs in the healthcare bill is the fact that we have to rally an entire nation to change any of it. These sort of programs need to be kept at the state level.
Sounds like North Korea to me? People will be rounded up and put in camps if they try and escape the crushing arm of the Obamamaniac system. Teaching your children about God? Not acceptable! Take the children and brainwash them. What a load of crap! I may lose the battle but I will go down fighting and VOCAL.
Ok – This is ridiculous. There is always some critic who wishes to mislead the people and make a big deal out of something that doesn’t need to be. Seriously? The government busting down doors and snatching kids away? American people are going to stand for this? Let’s be for real. This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Stop making it sound as if we don’t have rights. Also, make note there are already voluntary programs like this taking place in other states across the country. What you should be focusing on is the thousands of orphaned children in the system that have truly been abused/abandoned by parents/guardians. The children that are currently being abused, and ill-raised by parents who don’t care about them. Yes there should be a standard we hold ourselves to. Don’t our children deserve this? They deserve every opportunity. There are just too many children in America that are performing at sub-par standards in school and it starts with how they are being raised at home. At least someone cares enough to want to get involved.
Try actually reading the piece before you comment Lil. It’s obvious you didn’t.