Be afraid. Be very afraid. Because here’s what’s in the Senate version of the health care bill:
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be awarded unprecedented new powers under the proposal, including the authority to decide what medical care should be covered by insurers as well as the terms and conditions of coverage and who should receive it.
And set aside the partisan BS for a moment, because it doesn’t matter who is in charge of HHS, or what party they belong to. It could be Kathleen Sebelius, Adolf Hitler, or Mother Effing Teresa — but no single human being should ever wield that kind of power.
No one.
Ever.
Democrat, Republican, or robot overlords.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. The money part of health care “reform” is bad enough. But 99% of the evil involved — yes, evil — is the power-grab. Washington couldn’t give a good goddamn about the money; because like Lay’s potato chips, they can always make more. But right now Washington sees a once-in-a-lifetime chance to grab the power over your life. And they’ll take it, sure as hell.
“It” being the power, and your life.
It is unbelievable that more politicians aren’t outraged by this. Why aren’t they speaking out about this power grab? Are we really that greedy to want everything for free that we will sell our souls for a bowl of pottage? It’s like they aren’t even representing us anymore out there.
“including the authority to decide what medical care should be covered by insurers as well as the terms and conditions of coverage and who should receive it.”
Ah, so it isn’t death panels, it’s a death secretary. Soon to be a death czar(ina)
Is a robot overlord a human being?
It gets worse;
These people get off on
the _misuse_ of power:
This is for your own good.
This hurts me more than it does you.
One day you’ll thank me for this.
In the mean time, I am hurting you,
and getting away with it; Max Success !
You’re right that no human being should have this power. It’s even more disturbing that somebody could obtain the power without having been elected. I can’t read minds, of course, but I’d guess that the belief that the greatest power should reside only with those who have been elected is one of the reasons that our Constitution, for example, specifies that the President is commander-in-chief and that Congress declares war. An unelected general or admiral is not commander-in-chief, nor does any general or admiral have the right to declare war.
The old saying, “Any government powerful enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take everything you have” comes to mind.
In this case, the government will literally have the power to decide whether you’re worthy of receiving the medical treatment you need to continue living. Even if we somehow managed to create such an agency immune from political influence (and that would be a first in American history), the thought of turning over the power of life and death to a government bureaucracy should give any rational person pause.
I cant help but notice that a fair amount of Constitutional amendments start with the words “Congress Shall Not”, thereby defining the essential problem of government being not as you having too much freedom but rather the inclination of certain members of the legislature to take it away from you for no other reason than they can – and according to the founding fathers, should be restrained from exercising that impulse.
Perhaps its time we consider a new one that politely tells Congress (yet once again) to stay the hell out of our lives.
Golly, Stephen. Why so cynical? The government does such a wonderful job already what with their excellent examples of not wasting money on fraudulent claims and overspending on items that should cost half as much, avoiding time consuming bureaucratic red-tape and not to mention their super-duper class-A efficiency! On time and on budget will be programmed into all robot overlords! What me/you worry?
Power OVER the people!